This week I took my first ever shots in
RAW and there's no going back... 4,000 brightness levels versus 256 is a no-brainer but the resulting file size is going to play havoc with my trigger happy tendencies. Methinks I might need to purchase an enormo-memory card.
I've always had an issue with Photoshop. I can tinker with contrast, brightness and saturation levels but I reckon I only understand about 1% of what it can do. There are too many windows, toolbars, buttons, sub-buttons hiding inside other buttons... it scares me.
I planned to get out on campus and take some dramatic wide angle RAW shots of the Whitworth Building but Manchester did what it does best ALL week so I'm afraid I ended up with a pot plant instead.
This week's class was a real eye-opener for me. Here's the results of manipulating the RAW image in Photoshop:
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| Applying an s-curve accentuates the highlights and lowlights |
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| A more extreme s-curve creates a retro feel |
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| Playing around with saturation levels, picking up on the red edges of the plant |
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| As before but this time picking up on the green in the image |
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| Just for fun ;) |
1 comment:
Tinker taylor..... the amazing results of camera RAW and curves have taken you by storm I see. There are endless possibilities with these tools and in relation to creativity they are a dream to work with. Enjoying the work.
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