Differences in Post Processing
My main camera of choice is the Canon 5D. It’s a 12 megapixel full frame camera. It’s a beauty to work with and I love it. My wife usually shoots with the Canon 30D. She gets better reach with that camera because of the crop factor and she always gets some amazing candid pictures! Anyway, I’ll talk about cameras later. I wanted to talk about how software makes a big difference. I’ve always shot RAW + JPG format. It can be time consuming to convert every single RAW image into JPG so I usually only convert my favorites. It might be hard to see the differences in output from these small images, but RAW images converted to JPG offer many advantages. I’ve always converted using Silkypix, but lately I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom and I like it a lot.
Copyright 2007 Todd H Kim Photography - Living Life Media - Photographer: Todd Kim
This is a JPG image straight from the camera
Silkypix RAW conversion to JPG
Adobe Lightroom RAW conversion to JPG
Same image with curve adjustment in Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom RAW conversion B/W JPG from Lightroom
Same B/W JPG with curve adjustment in Photoshop
I think I like the Lightroom version with the curve adjustment the best. The best thing about Lightroom is it’s a better workflow!
