Darren Bonner
Regular
- Location
- Poole, UK
- Name
- Darren
I took some photo's of some Swans the other day with the XF1 in Jpeg. I did some editing in Lightroom mainly reducing the highlights, but I still had some blown highlights. In the previous thread, Grebeman suggest to shoot in RAW. I had some reservations as I read RAW files are not that good on this camera and did have a go once and the files were very noisey. Perhaps I was on Medium mode (6MP) and auto iso.
Today I had another go. The sky was overcast, but shooting the Swans was more difficult. The swans looked over exposed on the LCD, even when I dialed down the exposure, but the rest of the scene looked too dark. I set the file size to large (12mp) and ISO 100. Other waterfowl showed themselves too so I took photo's of them too.
when I looked at the RAW files on the big screen, they looked flat, really flat, but they responded really well when I processed them in Lightroom.
Swan by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Ducks by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Here comes the swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Coot and Morhen by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Today I had another go. The sky was overcast, but shooting the Swans was more difficult. The swans looked over exposed on the LCD, even when I dialed down the exposure, but the rest of the scene looked too dark. I set the file size to large (12mp) and ISO 100. Other waterfowl showed themselves too so I took photo's of them too.
when I looked at the RAW files on the big screen, they looked flat, really flat, but they responded really well when I processed them in Lightroom.
Swan by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Ducks by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Here comes the swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Coot and Morhen by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr
Swans by Darren Bonner, on Flickr