FIX-IT-FRIDAY #75 ~ "Autumn Orchard Fun"

Original

This weeks original was sweet, but a bit of a challenge.

Wesley is a touch blurry and the colours are pretty cool (as in chilly).

I felt that as the autumn colours behind were probably nothing like this, it need some warming up.

This week we were also able to download the RAW file, so I thought I'd have a go at comparing edits between JPG & RAW ~ you know, just so I know for the future...

All edits done in LightRoom3 (except the RAW conversion because I don't have the plugin to open the RAW in LR3).

JPG's

#1

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#2

 (this is my own preset ~ you can see most of the setting on the right)

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#3

Started for #1

(I have left the settings for the graduated filter open on the right for you to see ~ just tried this out for the first time today :D)

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#4

(from #1)

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#5

(I cropped in closer for the BW because I wasn't so bothered about losing that lovely red tree in the background!)

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RAW's

#6

Straight from CWR (forgot to take screen shot ~ sorry)

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#7

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#8

Worked from #7

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#9

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I have to confess to my own surprise at the difference between JPG and RAW.

The RAW was so much easier to take out the noise and sharpen up and the colours definitely seemed to stay truer when I started fiddling.

I don't have a choice just now and for carefully calculated shots I'm not sure JPG will be so different, but I can see that for 'on the fly' shot RAW is much better for making those correction that salvage a photo!

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