December 15, 2012

Post-processing. An important step (to me)

To illustrate why I do think post-processing is an important step in developing your digital photographs, I will first let the images speak for themselves here...

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The left image is the photo as it comes straight out of the camera after shooting the scene, as you can see there's not much information there, poor lights, tones and colors and there's a lot of black (pitch black) without any information or details.
However, by shooting in RAW format, you make the software able to recover the maximum of light, shadows and details, just see for yourself (post-processing under Adobe Lightroom).

This is a belgian landscape taken during the golden hour, thus giving you this amazing warm atmosphere... Information was not lost even though the first image is way too underexposed!

ISO 200 - 36mm - f/5.0 - 1/4000s

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