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17 Jul 2011 - 10:38 PM

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Tooth (Critique Team)

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18 Jul 2011 - 12:18 AM

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You've done as good job, goosd exposure and naice narrowe depth of field.I agree with rambler re cloning/cropping away the distractions at the edges - personally I'd justt cop in from the top and left to just inside them.

The thing about RAW..it doesn't give you any more latitude for cropping, the number of pixels are the same as in the jpeg (assuming your jpegs were full size). But there's a lot more info contained in RAW files which can give you much more leeway for getting out of tricky situations with harsh contrast, overexposure and burnout, colour balance problems.

The downside is that nearly all raw files ned a little bit of tweaking as they tend to be a bit dull and washed out (as the camera hasn't automatically applied any contrast/saturation/sharpening etc. The upside is you have much finer control over these parameters than just letting the camera decide it for you.

For instance, in this shot, there are some highlights on the berries which if the light had been harsher than it is here would have been blown out to white. In the jpeg these blown out areas would have been recorded as such and no detail ever recoverable from them. In the RAW it would probably be possinble to tweak and rescue detail from the overexposed parts as the RAW shot has much bigger exposure latitude..)

There's plenty of forum threads on the subject if you do a search.

Anyway, nice work, it's a new world for you now but I;ve never known anyone switched to RAW and went back, so get stuck in and enjoy

Stephen