SNL 2008

I decided to give RAW a shot and see what all these snobs are raving about. ;p Honestly? I prefer shooting JPEG. Far less hard drive and CF card space, much faster processing, less fine-tuning and tweaking. Besides, I know my white balances semi-well by now. I'd hate to waste that hard-earned knowledge. Hehehe. I spent the longest time trying to fiddle with those "whites." Very annoying.

I also processed them all in Lightroom as my second experiment. In retrospect, I should not have combined two semi-variables, although I have fiddled with RAW and Lightroom separately before. Although it's very convenient for sorting, organizing and quick-editing, it's not quite what I like. I do like the white balance tool and the sync option. Overall, I think I've just gotten so used to Photoshop tweaks that I'm either going to have to invest a significant chunk of time achieving the look I'm used to getting in 30 seconds in CS3, or else I'll probably have to run the best photos through two edits, a quickie Lightroom run and then Photoshop tweaking on the best photos. Maybe I'll consider Photo Mechanic as an alternative, since it's a journalistic standard when it comes to photo software and tools. One more boost for my resume!

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items are from 22 Mar 2008.