Comments on: Down and Dirty – Gritty Urban Photography

By: Affordable Logo design

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By: cfimages

cfimages — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:38:48 +0000

Good to know Stevo. I haven't really tested out any of the Alien Skin plug ins. I got the Nik collection a couple of years ago and use that a fair bit, and have just recently installed On One's plug-ins, mainly for their masking tools.

By: cfimages

cfimages — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:38:00 +0000

By: Stevo

Stevo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:30:13 +0000

I wanted to add: Alien Skin's Exposure 2 plug-ins for Photoshop also do a great job in making street photos "down and dirty."

By: Stevo

Stevo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:30:00 +0000

I wanted to add: Alien Skin's Exposure 2 plug-ins for Photoshop also do a great job in making street photos "down and dirty."

By: cfimages

cfimages — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:12:13 +0000

That's cool. If you find it necessary to shoot RAW at any time, you can also set your RAW editor to automatically convert to the same JPG settings you have in-camera so it doesn't really take any extra time.

By: cfimages

cfimages — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:12:00 +0000

By: MJ Klein

MJ Klein — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:59:05 +0000

yeah i seem to remember it is "joint" but for some reason i was thinking it was "Japanese!"

not to beat the issue to death, but the main reason why i don't shoot RAW is time. you can't use RAW for anything directly. you can't send someone a RAW file, or upload a RAW image to flickr or use it on a blog. every RAW file must be personally manipulated by computer to turn it into a format that can be used. i just don't have that kind of time to futz around with the hundreds of shots that i take. since i don't crop photos or manipulate them in PS or Gimp, i bracket shots and i take several shots with different compositions using the zoom lens. i've settled on a set of camera settings that process the data into JPG files that i like and i don't have to do any post processing to get what i want. so for me, shooting RAW is a waste of time and storage space since i don't need RAW files for anything in particular. but of course i have shot RAW when necessary. it's just not necessary very often. thanks Craig.

By: MJ Klein

MJ Klein — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:59:00 +0000

yeah i seem to remember it is "joint" but for some reason i was thinking it was "Japanese!"

By: cfimages

cfimages — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:42:06 +0000

Glad you like the tips Carrie. Photoshop is a lot of fun to play with, but it's very easy to go too far. If you need any lens advice, feel free to ask.