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Mmm... Dismembered Head... » Tue, Oct 17th 2006 10:06 am

Actually, I’ll pass. It looks a little over-cooked.

At first, this photo looked like a horrible tourist snapshot taken inside a poorly lit wax museum. However, thanks to the magic of Canon’s RAW format, I was able to turn it into something postable. A little noisy still, but I like the composition a lot.

Another from my Niagara Falls vacation back in August.

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  1. 1 Tyler on Tue, Oct 17th 2006 10:50 am

    I haven’t played around with the RAW format yet. What are the advantages?

  2. 2 Aaron on Tue, Oct 17th 2006 10:54 am

    Control over pretty much every aspect of your photo. Exposure, brightness, saturation, contrast, colour temperature, vignetting, noise, sharpness, curves, and some other stuff I’ve probably forgotten. Take a RAW photo, then load it in PhotoShop. It’ll bring up the RAW Viewer, and you can drag the sliders around.

    JPEGs are lossy. You lose detail the second you snap the photo. You lose detail again when you’ve modified the photo and then save it as a JPEG. RAW gives you the full-detailed image to play with, then when you’re happy, you can turn it into a JPEG of whatever quality you want.

    The downside is much larger image files. But if you ask for a larger CF card for Christmas, you’ll be fine winking

  3. 3 Tyler on Tue, Oct 17th 2006 11:58 am

    Actually I just bought a 1GB card. It holds around 300 high quality JPEGs. Much better then 25. grinning face

    I went through the menu on the Rebel and I couldn’t find the option to change the format. Do you recall how?

  4. 4 Aaron on Tue, Oct 17th 2006 12:07 pm

    It’s under “Quality” or something. You’ll see “JPEG” on there now, but select it and pick “RAW” instead.

  5. 5 Tyler on Thu, Oct 19th 2006 8:31 am

    Ah, I’ve figured it out. You can only see the option and take RAW photos while in manual mode.

    Now why is that?!

  6. 6 Aaron on Thu, Oct 19th 2006 8:57 am

    Not just manual. Anything in the “Creative Zone” I think it’s called. Because it’s assumed that anyone not in the creative zone is just taking snaptshots anyway, and because RAW eats more battery power and disk space, they figure they’d enforce JPEG-only to keep things fast and efficient. I never used the “Automatic Zone”—or whatever the hell it’s called—myself. You can emulate any one of them in the manual modes.

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