Comments on: The Suite Spot http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/05/14/the-suite-spot/ Blogging on creativity, business and freelancing Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:46:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: davy http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/05/14/the-suite-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 davy Mon, 21 May 2007 13:51:08 +0000 http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/?p=123#comment-1304 Hello John, Welcome to my blog and thanks for the posts. I've been admiring your photos on Flickr too, looks like you're getting good value from your Nikon. I shoot RAW pretty much all the time, Lightroom makes it easy to work in RAW, in fact it is primarily designed to do just that. I understand why some photographers shoot JPEG and some RAW, horses for courses really, RAW suites me for the type of photos I take. I particularly like that fact that RAW lets me have about 4 stops 'wriggle-room' on some of my shots, if I've been a tad careless or the exposure is tricky. Check out: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ The 'Understanding' series of articles is very good. I highly recommend downloading the free Lightroom demo version, lasts for a month, after which you may well want to buy it. You can still export your Lightroom images to Elements for 'pixel-painting' if you need to do that, but Lightroom will handle just about everything else. Cheers. Hello John,
Welcome to my blog and thanks for the posts. I’ve been admiring your photos on Flickr too, looks like you’re getting good value from your Nikon.
I shoot RAW pretty much all the time, Lightroom makes it easy to work in RAW, in fact it is primarily designed to do just that. I understand why some photographers shoot JPEG and some RAW, horses for courses really, RAW suites me for the type of photos I take. I particularly like that fact that RAW lets me have about 4 stops ‘wriggle-room’ on some of my shots, if I’ve been a tad careless or the exposure is tricky.
Check out: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
The ‘Understanding’ series of articles is very good.
I highly recommend downloading the free Lightroom demo version, lasts for a month, after which you may well want to buy it. You can still export your Lightroom images to Elements for ‘pixel-painting’ if you need to do that, but Lightroom will handle just about everything else.

Cheers.

]]> By: John of Dublin` http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/05/14/the-suite-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-1301 John of Dublin` Mon, 21 May 2007 12:15:11 +0000 http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/?p=123#comment-1301 Hi Davy, I'm getting into reading your blog! Good article. I'm purely an amateur photographer but I'm slowly getting little sideline assignments which are interesting. I've also been noticing the virtues of RAW format - especially for improving exposure issues and white balance problems. (I just use Elements - and only Version 3.0 from 2005!). This does however allow import of my Nikon RAW files one by one and allows very effective EV and WB compensation during loading. I saw a nicely done video demo of Lightroom on the Adobe website. It seems good for batch work for a professional like yourself. Also for clever toning adjustments. But I'm wondering if it's worth it all for me. Also does it need to work wth CS to be effective - given I just have Elements? Is it really much better at handling RAW files? Do you use RAW all the time? I've recently had my feet in both camps by having the Nikon saving in both RAW and Jpeg for awhile until I make my mind up! Lucky I've a 2GB SD card!! Cheers John of Dublin Hi Davy,

I’m getting into reading your blog! Good article.

I’m purely an amateur photographer but I’m slowly getting little sideline assignments which are interesting. I’ve also been noticing the virtues of RAW format – especially for improving exposure issues and white balance problems. (I just use Elements – and only Version 3.0 from 2005!). This does however allow import of my Nikon RAW files one by one and allows very effective EV and WB compensation during loading.

I saw a nicely done video demo of Lightroom on the Adobe website. It seems good for batch work for a professional like yourself. Also for clever toning adjustments. But I’m wondering if it’s worth it all for me. Also does it need to work wth CS to be effective – given I just have Elements? Is it really much better at handling RAW files?

Do you use RAW all the time? I’ve recently had my feet in both camps by having the Nikon saving in both RAW and Jpeg for awhile until I make my mind up! Lucky I’ve a 2GB SD card!!

Cheers

John of Dublin

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