LIVE! In the RAW

Although I sincerely doubt W.A.S.P. was thinking about RAW photo images when they named their tour LIVE! In the RAW, it nonetheless is my new motto. At least for the time being anyways.

I broke one of the first cardinal rules to professional photography - I forgot the check ALL of my settings before beginning my shoot. My WB was still set to the custom setting from inside the control room at the studio so needless to say, very blue, indeed. It was pretty much slightly different than Tunsten, but not at all apropriate for full sun shooting. Now, to my advantage, the camera was also still set to RAW, so I was able to correct the WB on those images shot before I changed to settings.

Now what I truly loved about the RAW pictures was that when I went to adjust the WB, I first just selected the "proper" WB setting of Sunny and the white house I had shot looked yellowish. Next the Auto setting, and it was yellow, Flourescent - green. So I went back to "as shot" and played around with the warmth setting and I was able to get a perfect white.

Now that I have a 2 gig card, I plan on shooting in RAW. I really just enjoy having more compensation options.

On a different topic, I took a lot of pix of the falls using a slow shutter speed, but there was still some additional object blur in most of them, even with the use of a monopod. I think for shots like this a tripod is almost certainly a MUST.