Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a "producer/publisher" of images I would have to second Nathans statement! I will go a very long way to avoid getting jpgs images into my workflow as it has many faults and the show up as soon as you convert, change mode or do any other alternation to the picture. Colour management on jpgs files do not handle as will as on tiffs and the more work you can do in RAW before converting it into Tiff the better. Our standar policy on recieving digital pictures for our books and magazines is that we return jpgs to the sender with the essage to deliver the files either as raw or as tiff. I find jpgs acceptable for showing on wep pages but otherwise i do not bother using them. Best Ruben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: canon 1dsII now has a wireless network transmitter > Ted, > > For once I will disagree with your approach and I have an example to > illustrate it. > > When I first started shooting digital last summer, I also shot JPEGs the > first couple of weeks. But then I had an experience that made me > reconsider. I posted this picture among my PAWs: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_31alt1.jpg > > After some feedback from the list, I decided that it would work better in > B&W and converted it. On the screen it is acceptable. But when I tried to > print it--forget it! Doing the conversion on a JPEG file resulted in > unacceptable artifacts, and no amount of Photoshop wizardry (or at least > wizardry that I am capable of) could remove them completely. > > Since that week I have shot only RAW. Yes, it ads an extra step to the > workflow, but I do not drive myself crazy with it. All my corrections are > very basic, just move the shadows and highlights controls in the RAW > converter as needed (and I use PS CS's converter, not some specialized > tool), adjust colour temperature if there is a cast, and click on OK. I do > not come back from places with thousands of pictures; my recent trip to > France and Denmark resulted in around 200 images, so the quantity was > manageable. I sat and converted them to TIFF while watching TV on a Sunday > afternoon. > > Shooting JPEGs is like making a good print and throwing away the negative. > > Nathan > > Ted Grant wrote: > >> I think what happens with many people doing digital is, they drive >> themselves crazy with over work by fiddling every picture to death trying >> to make it better. Raw? Hell that's a quick way to death! Shoot >> everything JPEG and quick is far better and much easier on ones work >> staring at the screen! >> > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information