So, I took the plunge.

No, I'm not engaged....I went RAW for the first time this last wedding. The images look AWESOME. (More of that to come in another thread), but anyways, so I got home and couldn't wait to start trying to edit these babies, and even though I've used DPP 1.5 for JPEGs in the past this was the first time I've tried them with on RAWs.

First of all, I think I might have ADD because in the amount of time that I COULD have edited 200 pictures I've only done 15 because I fiddle with each one!! Trying to get it "perfect." Am I alone in this, or do other deal with this too....

Also, have any of you DPP 1.5 users used the "faithful" settings on the color? It seems to really make the images pop a bit more. Also, I'm trying to find more ways to squeeze a bit more contrast out of the images. The dynamic range doesn't seem to do much on the low end. Anyways, anyone have any suggestions or know how exactly this "faithful" settings work? Tim, you seem to know about this kinda stuff...... plus you've edited about 1,000 of DJs weddings....

Cool....pics to come soon....

Chris,
I'm curious... What did you feel like you could adjust in DPP with the RAW images that you couldn't adjust in Photoshop with the JPEGs? I keep hearing about shooting in RAW, but the only noticeable thing to me that you can change at the click of a button with a RAW file is the white balance. It seems that all of the rest can simply be done to a JPEG in Photoshop....
Definitely looking forward to seeing pics!

Nathan

Chris and Nathan...I am considering making the switch as well. From what I can tell so far the main difference is the richness of the image. Jpeg compression basically throws out almost 1/3 of the images information. RAW images have deeper interpolated color, denser shadows, greater overall dynamic range...etc. I suppose it also just hs greater amounts of detail...fine detail. That's what I've noticed so far... I believe you can also over-expose a litle bit in RAW and still save the shot, but jpegs lock up....

Let me know what ya'll discover...

Chris...Did you shoot the whole wedding in RAW? How many cards did you end up using? And are you using 2GB cards?

TTFN. mj

Chris ---

I'm definitely interested in learning more about this too... Because most likely I will be shooting all my gallery work in RAW.

--- Gregg

Lots of questions....

what did I feel I could change?.....

well, basically I wanted to see how my control over color correction would change. I didn't feel like I was blowing that many exposures (although my assistants were, and obviously I did blow SOME....), but even though I could correct the color with the RAWs I noticed that depending on the shot, the image quality would be affected, sometimes fairly drastically. With RAW, I don't feel this has been the case. Also, with DPP you just have a few more general controls with RAW that you don't have with the JPEGs. Those are the main reasons...

I did shoot the whole wedding in RAW. The card thing was actually the kind of funny part.... (funny in a non sort of funny way.) I only used 2 1 gig cards!! Basically, my assistant sat at the computer the entire day and just kept downloading cards into both of our computers. She would download the RAWs and medium JPEGs on her computer which had a lot more available space and (medium JPEGs for the slideshow and album that we printed) and the medium JPEGs on my computer (which didn't quite have enough space for all the RAWs. )

So unfortunately, we had to be formatting cards the whole wedding, but that's the case for us even with JPEGs. With RAW we just did it much more often. As soon as I finished one card I would give it to her and she would download it and then she would give me the blank one and then 15 mins later we would switch again after I had used the 100 shots I could get off with the 1 GIG card.

It went well, it was just kinda a pain. I'm obviously thinking about getting a slew of 2 GIG cards so I don't have to switch as often and don't have to format at the wedding. That would be ideal.

Cool deal Chris... I know shooting this for weddings must have been a pain, but think of the extra control you have... I think I'm gonna be going with this for my artistic photos... Thanks for the info man!

--- Gregg

Thanks so much Chris! Would you do it again (with only 2 cards)...or was it a little harrowing?

Let's see some pics musicman!

mj

I'll post how the wedding went under the recent news and you can check out some pics there!

Keep in mind you guys that Chris is a crazy man!! A whole wedding on two cards??? Those are some seriously radical (insane?) kahunas. I shoot my wedding RAW with seven 2 GB cards and I don't think I have enough.