March 11, 2010

  • A cycle in photography

    When I first started out with the G1, I took mainly jpeg photos, but found limitations, especially in the colouring system of the Panasonic.  That made me switch to taking in RAW, using SilkyPix that came with the G1.  I found some commonly used settings to mass produce photos.  After that I moved on to Lightroom (LR).  And then I moved back to taking jpeg when I moved to the Nikon.  As is.  Then I started fiddling with jpegs using LR, which sort of put me back into the seat of a photoshopographer, rather than a photographer.  I was being lazy, thinking I could always fix my pictures later on.  Not that it's a bad thing - essentially a badly taken shot is better than a missed shot, and things can always be fixed later.  Plus I started trying to capture the maximum dynamic range of the light, which means the jpeg does not always come out nicest.  Thus the confusion.  I was taking some pretty nice photos with limited dynamic range; should I try to capture more dynamic range light and use post-processing to fix things, or to just use the best of exposure and lighting to take the picture that looks the nicest?

    Hmmm.