I’ve completely moved from shooting JPEGs to RAW just this year when shooting with my Canon EOS 40D. That has made a huge difference in how the quality or the drama of the photos turn out.
I must admit I’m still very new to this and I used to have this mindset that whatever you shoot should be preserved in its entirety and not be heavily manipulated in any way. So for 2 years since I bought my first dSLR, the only changes I do with my shots are contrast and levels.
Recently, a friend tipped me about Adobe Photoshop LightRoom and that did it.
Now, there’s tons of dials to experiment on — exposure, temperature, clarity, vibrancy, vignetting and saturation. So, that’s how those photos I see from the old-timers look really cool as if they were taken from out of this world.
I then learned to appreciate grayscale and B&W. I have a long way to go. More pictures in my photoblog.
Wow nice pictures. I like the second picture! It lively.
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the second pic parang si wolverine, kulang na lang claws hehe
Nice Photos Abe, Photography is one of my passions as well… Maybe it’s time to take a look at lightbox. I was using a different program before…
I like the lime-colored sand. Where is this located. I prefer orange sand and lavender sky but lime would do me just fine.
I think it’s in Boracay. Their sand their is a bit different. They even have pink carabaos too.
I haven’t seen a pink carabao in bora..
Cool! The first picture have what is called depth in photography and the 2nd picture is what I can’t do with my cam. Because I’m stuck with my yashica EZ Digital 3013 not versatile digicam for taking moving subject.
Wow! those pics are amazing, too bad my c8080 is hell slow on shooting with RAW… have you tried aperture?
Aperture is also a nice app. Problem is… it only runs on a Mac.
@orgl: Hey maybe you camera can do that, most digital cameras can do that, look for the “macro” photography feature. I like macro photography, everything looks different, even small bugs…
@ChrisMo: Thanks for the advice, I guess should dig some info with my manual hope to see macro settings on it.