Crying over raw (rant)

[JZaun]

"rant on"
Now I am retired and I don't plan to make a living out of photos but I do enjoy photography. I have learned a lot here and know better than what I did. A friend was marrying his significant other after 17 years and asked me to take a few pics for them. Being inside and with flash I knew to use RAW so I would have better control over the critical finished product. Gathered my gear tested it, set to RAW mode, set ISO 100, set flash, set manual settings etc and comminced to taking pictures. When I got home and put the pic's on the computer they were JPEG!!!! I know I switched to RAW, I know I did!!! but evidently I didn't press the *&^% set button and the cam went back to Jpeg!! *&^%##%^*(&^%$$#@!$^&*. Now I had 130 Jpeg pics of a friends wedding with the WB wrong on most of them!!!! I managed to save most but it took hours of adjusting and readjusting. Then I am sure they were not as good as they would have been had I set the cam right to start with. Lesson learned the hard way :?.. Yeah Yeah Yeah maybe I should just shoot raw all the time :):):):)

"rant off"

JZ

[Belmondo]

I don't know, Jerry, but it seems to me if your friends have been an 'item' for 17 years, they could have waited a couple weeks longer just to make sure you have everything set right and to give you the opportunity to take some test shots. It's not your fault; it's theirs for being in such a doggone hurry.

AT least you didn't leave your tripod at the wedding like I would have. :oops:

[tim]

Is there an easy way to adjust the white ballance of a JPG, or do you just have to play with the color ballance sliders?

[Belmondo]

Sometimes you can use the Photo Filters presets In Photoshop.

Go to

Image>Adjust>Photo Filters

Play around with some of those, and you might get close to what you're looking for.

[PhotosGuy]

Is there an easy way to adjust the white ballance of a JPG, or do you just have to play with the color ballance sliders? You could try using the eyedroppers in Levels for example, but my personal felling is that it overcorrects.
Here's a trick that works well for adjusting something that's pretty much a constant, like WB:
Make the adjustment using an Adjustment Layer. When it's "right", open another pic & drag the Adjustment Layer from the 1st pic into the 2nd one. It may not be exact, but you'll have a closer starting point to work with.

[pradeep1]

You could try using the eyedroppers in Levels for example, but my personal felling is that it overcorrects.
Here's a trick that works well for adjusting something that's pretty much a constant, like WB:
Make the adjustment using an Adjustment Layer. When it's "right", open another pic & drag the Adjustment Layer from the 1st pic into the 2nd one. It may not be exact, but you'll have a closer starting point to work with.

Yeah, this idea is very good to get consisent WB settings. Changing WB even on JPGs using modern software will yield results that you really won't be able to tell the difference unless you push it too much.

[robertwgross]

I would guess that you selected RAW files in the menu, and then you set your mode dial to Green Box, and that reverts the file type to JPEG large fine.

Shooting weddings properly is not exactly brain surgery, but it does take a little practice.

---Bob Gross---

[JZaun]

I would guess that you selected RAW files in the menu, and then you set your mode dial to Green Box, and that reverts the file type to JPEG large fine.

Shooting weddings properly is not exactly brain surgery, but it does take a little practice.

---Bob Gross---
I didn't do that good :) I failed to press set after selecting raw with the dial. I never use the Green box. Dont' trust it!! :) :) :)

JZ

[robertwgross]

I didn't do that good :) I failed to press set after selecting raw with the dial. I never use the Green box. Dont' trust it!! :) :) :)

The other way that I double check myself is that when I put a fresh CF card in the camera, or change anything about files, I will always check to see that the number of remaining shots still makes sense. If I expect to see "50" there, and it shows "95" instead, then I know it did some shifting of file types.

---Bob Gross---