Entries tagged with “RAW” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Late in the afternoon of a bright autumn day I arrived in Yosemite Valley. The valley was already in shadow, with only the tops of the surrounding cliffs lit by the sun. I stopped along the banks of the Merced River. With my camera on my tripod, I snapped five exposures of the scene, all at the same aperture (f/7.1)....

I've been researching all sorts of fun photography trivia for my upcoming book, Digital Photography Companion, and one that I though you'd enjoy is this nifty chart that compares Raw, DNG, and Jpeg file sizes on a handful of of DSLRs

As we get set to do the final push on Mikkel's Photoshop CS3 RAW book, this news via Adobe's John Nack is certainly timely. Although the ubiquitous Lightroom vs. Aperture debate rages on (and sometimes clouds our perception), turns out most professional photographers polled by Infotrends still use the classic Adobe Camera Raw/Bridge/Photoshop combo for their RAW workflow. No surprise...

It's remarkable what you can do in post-processing. Compare my original conversion from the RAW of my Yosemite Dreams (far below) with a more recent version (immediately below) I created in Photoshop for a special project. (There's actually no comparison to either version with the far duller look of the original RAW file that appeared when I first looked at...

The photo you see below is from the end of the Berkeley Pier looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge. The Berkeley pier seems like it goes half way across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz, but at one time it must have stretched futher than it does now. The boards block the end of the pier, prevent people from falling into...

How do you work with landscapes that show an extravagant dynamic range? I was down by the Bay photographing sunset. It was clear to me that the scene had great dynamic range, from the blown-out highlights in the clouds to the deep shadows in the rocks along the shoreline. My normal approach to this situation is a kind of ad-hoc...

Mark and I went back out to Arch Rock last night. It was a little earlier than my last hike out there, so I was able to work my way down the little canyon and across a couple of rock faces to the beach, where I photographed the arch in Arch Rock in the gathering dusk. Of course, I also...

Ethan Salwen talks about about photo capture-sharpening practices in AfterCapture and features O'Reilly author Mikkel Aaland. "There are compelling reasons to apply capture sharpening during the RAW conversion process," explains Mikkel Aaland, a San Francisco-based photographer and digital-imaging expert. "And there are compelling reasons to turn off a converter's sharpening function and wait until the file is in Photoshop." In...

A lot of people are shooting in the RAW fromat, but a lot of people are still asking why they should. I shoot almost exclusively in RAW and recently I was shooting in what Derrick Story calls "Stupid Mode", not paying any attention to my camer's settings and RAW saved me. I think this shot really demonstrates the power of...