However, in RAW, you can adjust that exposure before converting to your long term archive format (TIF for me).īelow is a zoom of the bird as I correct exposure in Camera Raw. If you don’t like to deal with the hassle of shooting RAW and shoot in JPG, you’re already in trouble, as that exposure is baked in and you don’t have nearly as much flexibility in saving that detail in the whites. Not an uncommon situation, as in this case, the sparrow popped up on the fence post for just a second, and I quickly grabbed a photo with a lot of time to change camera settings. Original photo, straight from my Canon 90D, and what it looks like when I open in Camera RAW.Ĭorrecting for exposure: The first thing I notice in the photo is that it’s overexposed in the whites on the underside of the sparrow, and a bit too bright for the scene overall.
I’ll eventually crop, but for now my main focus is on the overall exposure. You often try to “fill the frame” with the bird to get maximum detail, but birds don’t often cooperate! Thankfully with today’s DSLRs, there are plenty of pixels where you can crop some of the frame, and still have sufficient detail for large-size prints.
Note that as is often the case when you’re shooting birds, there’s a lot of “empty” space. Here’s the original photograph straight from my 90D, as it appears when I first open it in Adobe Camera Raw. O pen and evaluate the photo in Adobe Camera Raw. A very good example of a typical processing flow follows here, for a Harris’s Sparrow I photographed this morning on top of a fence post. That involves two software packages: Adobe Photoshop (and plugins), and Topaz DeNoise AI. I’m trying to show the whole flow for a typical photo, and while the steps below may look daunting, processing from RAW to a final TIF for long-term digital archiving is typically just a couple of minutes for me. I try to use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mantra, and keep the habitat and bird as I saw it. I don’t do a huge amount of digital processing. As I start to process those photos, I thought I’d share my “typical” recipe for processing photos from RAW from my Canon 90D, something I always wanted to blog about. It was just an hour, but I managed to photograph 6 species, and got some photos in nice early morning light.
This morning I had a nice short excursion to try to grab some photos of migrating sparrows.
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