Marlton Mom
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I'm with Tom on punching up your photos with post processing software. It is a personal preference though.... My husband really relates to black and white images like the ones Ansel Adams is famous for... To me that's like eating a diet candy bar.... what's the point if it doesn't have the thing that you crave.
One of the things that I've noticed about shooting digital is that the color doesn't always come through in the original exposure but it can be brought out with software. In film ya got what ya got and I think for the most part, the color was more likely to be there than missing, like it sometimes is for digital exposures.
With the last 2 digital Nikons (D50, D60) I've worked with, I've noticed that if you take multiple exposures very quickly it will give you something of a small exposure range without intentionally setting the bracketing mode.
The other thing I've noticed is that when you shoot in Raw plus JPEG, the algorithm that Nikon uses to reduce the raw file to a JPEG does a pretty good job of picking pixels that bring back the color to a pleasing level.
Now I have no idea if that is the technical explanation for what is going on between the Raw and the JPEG but I like what I get when it "dumbs" down to a JPEG.
Here is a picture that I Photoshopped:
......and here is the original JPEG straight outta the camera:
I definitely prefer the punched up color....(Although the top one is perhaps a bit too punchy, it's still a work in progress) I think it draws your eye in and I also think that most of what you are seeing today in print has been altered in software to increase the color impact.
I suppose that's why they say it's all in the eye
of the beholder!
Marlton Mom
One of the things that I've noticed about shooting digital is that the color doesn't always come through in the original exposure but it can be brought out with software. In film ya got what ya got and I think for the most part, the color was more likely to be there than missing, like it sometimes is for digital exposures.
With the last 2 digital Nikons (D50, D60) I've worked with, I've noticed that if you take multiple exposures very quickly it will give you something of a small exposure range without intentionally setting the bracketing mode.
The other thing I've noticed is that when you shoot in Raw plus JPEG, the algorithm that Nikon uses to reduce the raw file to a JPEG does a pretty good job of picking pixels that bring back the color to a pleasing level.
Now I have no idea if that is the technical explanation for what is going on between the Raw and the JPEG but I like what I get when it "dumbs" down to a JPEG.
Here is a picture that I Photoshopped:
......and here is the original JPEG straight outta the camera:
I definitely prefer the punched up color....(Although the top one is perhaps a bit too punchy, it's still a work in progress) I think it draws your eye in and I also think that most of what you are seeing today in print has been altered in software to increase the color impact.
I suppose that's why they say it's all in the eye
of the beholder!Marlton Mom
You're pictures make me so frustrated because I don't think that I will ever be able to pull off something as good as your shots! Every time that I look at them, the sharpness and clarity make me feel that you can almost reach out and touch the subject. Between your eye and your technique (and I'm sure equipment has a LITTLE to do with it but I'm not going to open up that debate again) your shots are simply amazing. I wish I could just study with you for a week sometime to see how you create such amazing shots! 
(And I apologize if that comes across as a little creepy.... certainly not my intention.) 
