Sometimes the best part of a photo is hidden. Running your RAW images through Photoshop will not only bring them up to speed for printing but in some cases uncovers what you conceptualized. A great example is the background that’s fuzzy in the center and looked the same when taking the shot. Where the RAW image barley showed the background, the processed image makes it the subject.
On a typical of Northern Ireland in May, we were on the road to Derry and the weather was doing it’s Ireland thing. Cloudy, cool, some rain and that coastal fog that drifts with the wind. You could see the reality that the print projects, but you never know what the camera sees. Post-production is where finding your vision gives you the opportunity to make a print. The fuzzy background becomes a subject and makes a “blah” kind of image interesting. Without it any other work on the image is for-naught.
But that’s the exiting thing about Mirrorless Cameras and Photoshop. RAW images are loaded with so much data they hide some of the detail. Funny in the days of film, slides and prints the camera saw closer to the eye. Or maybe it was the chemical-based processing and turnaround times that made it seem so. What I love about today’s technologies is the immediacy of the process where the only challenge is learning to marry the two technologies.
For this shot the camera was set to aperture priority at F/9 with ISO of 800 triggering a 1/20 shutter. Using aperture priority is a great strategy for landscape shots and setting the ISO helps you navigate the natural light conditions. F/8 is great and so is F/9. The camera takes care of the shutter.
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