My new D40 was stolen in Mexico.
The end.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Self Portraits
(my new Nikon)
(Click to enlarge, you can see out my car windows...)
(Overlay done in camera)
(Pumpkin face)New Camera, New Blog
My new Nikon D40 came the afternoon school was let out for the summer, and my my my is it going to be a fantastic summer of memories.
It's my first digital SLR that's actually my own and I love it so far! For so many years I tried not to go digital, (I even still have a b/w darkroom in the corner of my garage) I thought that it would take away the fun of developing, if it was all done for you by a machine. But then I learned about the RAW format, (.nef for Nikon). RAW files are like the negatives of digital photography. JPGs are the prints. When you shoot in JPG, everything is done for you, the camera uses all of the settings you specify to develop the picture inside the camera, in a sense, point-and-shoot digital cameras are more like the old Polaroids than even a film point-and-shoot.
RAW format is like a negative, not because the colors are inverted, but because you are able to take the information given and develop an image from it in multiple different ways. Yes, people have been adjusting their digital photographs for years with Adobe Photoshop! But before RAW, they were adjusting an already developed picture, pulling the colors in and out of spectrum pushing in and pulling out whites and blacks, to create contrast, each time a piece of the image was lost. People got very good at this, by trying to conserve as much of the original image with careful adjustments, sharpening and noise reduction tools, but the truth is with RAW, you're not changing a picture to make it look how you want it to look, you're literally developing it in a new way.
I'm currently trying out a program called Adobe Lightroom, which is specially developed for the professional photographer who shoots in large quantities and uses RAW. There are other programs made for developing RAW formats, such as Apple Aperture, and DxO, but I haven't tried them yet. Although from the reviews I've read and my 2 weeks working in Lightroom, it seems to be pretty good. It's laid out completely differently than Photoshop, in a way it's more like the iTunes format. Really simple and easy to use, but it has everything photoshop has in regards to adjustment, and even a little bit more. And it lets you work directly with Photoshop, if you want to make any artistic additions. Any comments or reviews on RAW programs are greatly appreciated, like I said, I am new to all of this. I have been digitally resistant for so long, thinking that quality and authentic-ness would be thrown out the window, but I'm slowly being proven wrong.
I am very pleased with my D40. It's almost as good as my N75 in my opinion. I am hoping I can some how make some money off of my photography soon and upgrade to D80, it seems more suited to what i want, but wasn't worth the extra money until I'm sure that I like this whole digital photography thing.
I will be updating regularly, and within the next month I'll have my website up and post a link.
Please feel free to comment, or add me!
Rochelle
It's my first digital SLR that's actually my own and I love it so far! For so many years I tried not to go digital, (I even still have a b/w darkroom in the corner of my garage) I thought that it would take away the fun of developing, if it was all done for you by a machine. But then I learned about the RAW format, (.nef for Nikon). RAW files are like the negatives of digital photography. JPGs are the prints. When you shoot in JPG, everything is done for you, the camera uses all of the settings you specify to develop the picture inside the camera, in a sense, point-and-shoot digital cameras are more like the old Polaroids than even a film point-and-shoot.
RAW format is like a negative, not because the colors are inverted, but because you are able to take the information given and develop an image from it in multiple different ways. Yes, people have been adjusting their digital photographs for years with Adobe Photoshop! But before RAW, they were adjusting an already developed picture, pulling the colors in and out of spectrum pushing in and pulling out whites and blacks, to create contrast, each time a piece of the image was lost. People got very good at this, by trying to conserve as much of the original image with careful adjustments, sharpening and noise reduction tools, but the truth is with RAW, you're not changing a picture to make it look how you want it to look, you're literally developing it in a new way.
I'm currently trying out a program called Adobe Lightroom, which is specially developed for the professional photographer who shoots in large quantities and uses RAW. There are other programs made for developing RAW formats, such as Apple Aperture, and DxO, but I haven't tried them yet. Although from the reviews I've read and my 2 weeks working in Lightroom, it seems to be pretty good. It's laid out completely differently than Photoshop, in a way it's more like the iTunes format. Really simple and easy to use, but it has everything photoshop has in regards to adjustment, and even a little bit more. And it lets you work directly with Photoshop, if you want to make any artistic additions. Any comments or reviews on RAW programs are greatly appreciated, like I said, I am new to all of this. I have been digitally resistant for so long, thinking that quality and authentic-ness would be thrown out the window, but I'm slowly being proven wrong.
I am very pleased with my D40. It's almost as good as my N75 in my opinion. I am hoping I can some how make some money off of my photography soon and upgrade to D80, it seems more suited to what i want, but wasn't worth the extra money until I'm sure that I like this whole digital photography thing.
I will be updating regularly, and within the next month I'll have my website up and post a link.
Please feel free to comment, or add me!
Rochelle
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