In a non-photography board, i recently got into a debate over using photoshop to edit images...to make a long story short i found another RAW debate can be stemed from this.
These are all directly out of the camera. The only changes made were a resize and then the image was converted to sRGB color profile to view properly on the internet.
These were taken with my 1D, i shot all jpeg parameters, all the shots are identical settings-lighting etc.
Parm 1
http://www.questphotos.com/PSnotcheating/4mp/parm1.JPG
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parm 2
http://www.questphotos.com/PSnotcheating/4mp/parm2.JPG
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parm 3
http://www.questphotos.com/PSnotcheating/4mp/parm3.JPG
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parm 4
http://www.questphotos.com/PSnotcheating/4mp/parm4.JPG
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parm 5
http://www.questphotos.com/PSnotcheating/4mp/parm5.JPG
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Here is the Straight-out-of-the-camera RAW image
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(forgive the condesending tone, this is a copy and paste from that other thread...i'm sure you guys know most of this information)
And now i took that raw image and corrected everything as i felt it needed to be corrected.
First step was to adjust the white balance, i made the whites white.
Second step was apply a little sharpening to the image. Although my camera uses a CCD sensor, which tend to be fairly sharp, the images out of a DSLR do not maximize a lenses ability to produce a sharp image. The same image taken on film is sharper by nature then the same image out of a digital SLR. (FWIW images out of a CMOS sensor seem to be a little less sharp, but they seem to sharpen nicer then those out of the older CCD sensors...)
Third step was to adjust the contrast. I did this simply by adjusting the levels. This brings up the Histogram which represents the color spectrum and brightness found in the photo. Unless i'm trying something "outside of the box" i adjust this so that the histogram colors the entire specturm. This is what an "ideal" histogram would look like, i've never seen a DSLR produce an image with these charictoristics.
Fourth step is to add a little color. You can use "saturation" or "selective color". I spent $20 on a program called "Velvia Vision" (velvia is a film produced by fuji that is known for it's beautiful vibrant colors...). It is a program that works in a similer mannor that PS does when you adjust saturation, but it tends to do it in a more pleasing fashion, it also has a few other features that i rarely use such as giving the image a warm tone. More info can be found at http://www.fredmiranda.com
under "plugins" I then resized and converted profile (as well as switched it out of 16 bit mode, which only further ehances your ability to more accuratly adjust the color)
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My challange to you is to take the 4mp image of whichever parameter you feel, and make an image that looks as natural, or more natural, as the edited RAW image i presented. The 4mp version can be downloaded via the link above the image.
