My Photographer Friends: Straight From the Camera
What's your thoughts on 'Straight From the Camera" shooting?
Do you shoot JPEG or RAW? I do both.
The thing that always got me was 'straight from the camera' shooting. It means shoot whatever, and do nothing to it, right? Or does it include letting the camera do some 'in-camera' tweaks but nothing more. Like, if you shoot JPEG, the camera could be applying some brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc. to the photo. But in RAW while those settings are still applied, they end up as guidelines that are saved with/in the RAW file.
So when I shoot RAW, import into Lightroom, I find that my photos are flat and blah. I then have to tweak them up. Like in the shot I did up at High Point. Everything was all brown and flat. If I didn't post-process any of the photo it wouldn't have looked as nice as it did. My thoughts are RAW files have to be processed; you can't use them straight from the camera. They're like....digital negatives... back in the darkroom days you had to make sure your chemicals were rightly proportioned and color temps perfect. Or you could control it and do cross-processing stuff for funky effects. Even the paper or film had an effect on the outcome.
Maybe the real question is how do you get your result to be what you 'see' into your camera? Set all your camera's tweak settings to 0? What if that's off? You'd have to tweak your settings then. If you do, then are you editing in camera? Is it still 'straight from the camera'?
If I had to choose, 'straight from the camera' shooting would probably be something like, I'd shoot JPEG and let the camera do whatever it wanted to the file and hope I'm happy with the result.
Thoughts?
Do you shoot JPEG or RAW? I do both.
The thing that always got me was 'straight from the camera' shooting. It means shoot whatever, and do nothing to it, right? Or does it include letting the camera do some 'in-camera' tweaks but nothing more. Like, if you shoot JPEG, the camera could be applying some brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc. to the photo. But in RAW while those settings are still applied, they end up as guidelines that are saved with/in the RAW file.
So when I shoot RAW, import into Lightroom, I find that my photos are flat and blah. I then have to tweak them up. Like in the shot I did up at High Point. Everything was all brown and flat. If I didn't post-process any of the photo it wouldn't have looked as nice as it did. My thoughts are RAW files have to be processed; you can't use them straight from the camera. They're like....digital negatives... back in the darkroom days you had to make sure your chemicals were rightly proportioned and color temps perfect. Or you could control it and do cross-processing stuff for funky effects. Even the paper or film had an effect on the outcome.
Maybe the real question is how do you get your result to be what you 'see' into your camera? Set all your camera's tweak settings to 0? What if that's off? You'd have to tweak your settings then. If you do, then are you editing in camera? Is it still 'straight from the camera'?
If I had to choose, 'straight from the camera' shooting would probably be something like, I'd shoot JPEG and let the camera do whatever it wanted to the file and hope I'm happy with the result.
Thoughts?