K30 jpg very poor
I quite like shooting in the rain.
If you are able to expose every shot perfectly, then the main advantage of RAW (the ability to correct exposure errors) flies out of the window.
I use RAW because I am not quite so proficient.
G
If you are able to expose every shot perfectly, then the main advantage of RAW (the ability to correct exposure errors) flies out of the window.
I use RAW because I am not quite so proficient. G
I'm not so sure that RAW shooting should be portrayed as a 'get out clause' in regards perfect exposures. As I said earlier here, I would accept that RAW gives us much greater latitude over the midtone than before (compared to what was available to the slide shooters of old), and so for low contrast scenes then we could be a bit casual with it.
The big advantage I see, exposure-wise, would be the additional control at the extremes, where there is a high DR, so we can pull up shadows or reduce highlights and retain better quality looking textures and tones in those 'reclaimed' areas.
In these high DR situations, fine exposure control can be critical (if only making use of a single frame) because you will have to judge where the priorities are for your processing 'reclaiming' to come, and adjust the mid tone exposure to suit.
I should add, for my definition, a 'high dynamic range scene' would normally include almost any outdoor 'scene' in most weathers.
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I agree that for ultimate control RAW is best but for less important shots I use JPEG's so I'm not chained to the PC for hours.....
Pat
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At least those red cars look like they were parked up, so you could reshot if the histogram showed overexposure.
BTW I'm not sure if polarisers help with glare from cars - they do help with water and glass, I think I heard somewhere not with cars but I could be wrong. It might depend on the car as well - on it's paint and finish. Will see what happens with my modern car next time the sun shows it's face round here. It's not red but my neighbours have a red car.
Personally I shot RAW + a 2MB JPG.