Originally posted by Silkzone Thanks. I'm in a completion with my two sisters. One of them has a Nikon D300 which is nowhere near a K5IIs She can save the first pic in some sort of a file on the camera, & use it later! You mentioned bracketing, now I'm going to have to look into that? No idea what that is!! I guess I'm going to have to go out & get some sort of Photoshop thing! My sister has Elements12 say's it's great! What do you think or would you suggest something else? OH I'm not a million air, more like a dollar air! Thanks Silk
with bracketing you can set the exposure compensation to a set + and - value then when you take the shots it will take 1 with the 1st setting, 1 normal, a 1 with the second seting .. you can set the order in you custom menu, one thing that it's used for is HDR, but some suggest that shooting raw is a lot better .. i don't know, i'd say try it if you interested in that sort of thing and see what works for you …
for software, i never needed anything like photoshop, but tried lightroom, and i've seen elements being favoured by members of photo club, i guess it's the price/value question, for non profit could be hard to justify the price of lightroom + the time to master it, when elements provides more easy to understand tools and is usually sufficient for the needs
my personal favourite is gimp, but thats simply because i use it for lots of other things and the tools it offers are enough for my needs
it's same, you'll need to try few and see for yourself what works best for you …. there will be trial versions available so should be no problem