Suspicious-Teach8788
Lifer
I've been a long shooter of JPEG. Fail right? My Powershot G3 only had a 512mb card and while it's lasted me 6 years now, I feel it's time to move to RAW.
My stupid 16gb card FINALLY came for my T1i and so I can crank up the settings. I visited the zoo this weekend and while it's been a while since I've done serious photography, I think it's time to seriously get down and do some real post processing.
I honestly have to say what I've done in the past was a joke. It's like a kid liking computers and opting for a fast Dell computer. Now I'd like to try to build my own (ok i've done that). However, it takes me months to learn about components. I seriously spend enormous hours reading and trying to understand. I remember reading stupid voltage tables for my DFI board before I even got it. Yeah when I got it all I was teaching my friends the proper steps in overclocking and stuff. The same goes with post processing. It seems I have to read through hours and hours and stuff. My brain is ready to explode and while my knowledge has expanded, I'm still not sure where to begin.
The stuff I did before was simple and now I realize it was stupid. Maybe adjust brightness/contrast a bit, messed with some hue, saturation, maybe clarity. But it was more like "ooh clicking this button makes it look nicer. ok, what else can I do?"
I didn't really have a system.
So anyway, I see a lot of tutorials left and right. How to adjust color curves, levels, color temperature, etc.
But what's a good systematic way to go about adjusting RAW files? Is there some step by step what to do here and there? I'm afraid that going out there to learn a bunch of tutorials will just populate my toolbox, but I still need to learn WHEN to apply the right tool.
My stupid 16gb card FINALLY came for my T1i and so I can crank up the settings. I visited the zoo this weekend and while it's been a while since I've done serious photography, I think it's time to seriously get down and do some real post processing.
I honestly have to say what I've done in the past was a joke. It's like a kid liking computers and opting for a fast Dell computer. Now I'd like to try to build my own (ok i've done that). However, it takes me months to learn about components. I seriously spend enormous hours reading and trying to understand. I remember reading stupid voltage tables for my DFI board before I even got it. Yeah when I got it all I was teaching my friends the proper steps in overclocking and stuff. The same goes with post processing. It seems I have to read through hours and hours and stuff. My brain is ready to explode and while my knowledge has expanded, I'm still not sure where to begin.
The stuff I did before was simple and now I realize it was stupid. Maybe adjust brightness/contrast a bit, messed with some hue, saturation, maybe clarity. But it was more like "ooh clicking this button makes it look nicer. ok, what else can I do?"
I didn't really have a system.
So anyway, I see a lot of tutorials left and right. How to adjust color curves, levels, color temperature, etc.
But what's a good systematic way to go about adjusting RAW files? Is there some step by step what to do here and there? I'm afraid that going out there to learn a bunch of tutorials will just populate my toolbox, but I still need to learn WHEN to apply the right tool.
