Originally posted by ramseybuckeye I went out this morning with the same parameters on the monochrome custom image that I set for the Christmas lights, daylight is a little more "fair" to test the settings. There was a little fog and clouds this morning, with occasional sun peaking through. Again shooting Raw+ so I also have a raw version, but i was pleased with the look of these SOOC monochromes
Both beautiful shots. I thought I liked #2 best, then changed my mind to #1, and now I like both equally. They stand up well to large-sized viewing in your Flickr pool...
Originally posted by Alex645 Ok, but then did you post process the RAW files and compare them to these jpegs? The only times I've found the jpeg consistently outperformed my RAW Photoshop skills, were with high ISO and star fields.
Carefully-processed raws are undoubtedly going to be better (assuming reasonable post-processing skills), but this begs the question, how good is "good enough"? As I mentioned in my previous post, my personal preference for day-to-day shooting is raw, but if (and only
if) you can get the results you want using straight-from-camera JPEG, does the work required in processing raw files warrant your time? I'm not referring to you specifically, but to those who choose to shoot JPEG...
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