Changed my whole perspective...

Finally figured out what the big deal is with RAW. Man have I have been missing out! This is going to totally change how I create images. In the past if the image was under/overexposed I would toss it because of that, even if it was a good shot. Now, I can fix my mistakes when when shooting and salvage what used to get tossed. Simply amazing.

Well, nice to seee you get started in the Raw journey!

In time you will find that the power of Raw developing goes way beyond just "fixing" bad exposures. I don't want to discourage your learning, Raw is great for such fixes, I just want to encourage you to take your time about the processing -- read up on materials online, get a couple books, and over time you will find yourself able to accomplish pretty powerful stuff!

If you haven't already, check out our Raw Conversion Thread for some cool and inspiring examples from hundreds of members here:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=684360

It's also a good tool to help you make the most of a high dynamic range scene. You can kindof compress it in the raw converter.

I looked at some images I gave to customers a year ago. I can do better raw conversions now. As your skills and the technology gets better you can make more of the same image.

tim wrote in post #11656876
As your skills and the technology gets better you can make more of the same image.

I recently redid in DPP a few tricky pictures that I took three years ago and developed in Bibble4.

Quite a difference! Probably due to both the factors you mention. (Although I had DPP at that time too, but, stupid me, wanted 'something better'.)

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