Originally posted by agaurav I have a Pentax K-30D with 18-135mm WR. Most of my pictures are dull and drab looking. They are missing oomph like I see in pictures on various sites online. I shoot RAW+JPEG but I haven't tried too hard to process RAW. I felt that the JPEG should be quite good and the RAW would add the last 10-20%. What could be going wrong technically?
K-30D ??
RAW doesn't add anything, nothing at all - in fact it is sans the processing that you see in the JPEG version. RAW is just that. it's the
raw materials ready for you to cook in Lightroom (or whatever you have) to create the result you are after.
Don't rely on ICP to give you pleasing results, unless you're happy with ICP of course.
Technically nothing is going wrong that a bit of post processing won't fix (as mentioned by the previous posters) - including straightening the horizon in the photo of the boats and better cropping of the others. This takes time and practice. Capturing the light is only the
first stage of getting a finished photographic picture..