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First time shooting Air Show...Blue Angels
Ever since my daughter saw her first air show 7 years ago, she became instantly hooked. After seeing my first air show on Saturday @ Jacksonville Beach, I know understand why. Wow, simply AMAZING!! The thunderous sounds from the engines and the perfectly timed maneuvers are just incredible.
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Thanks - Dave
Dave
Julie,
Here is something you might like to read regarding Nikon Camera Profiles which I posted a while back and use.
http://neilvn.com/forum/discussion/1546/camera-profiles-what-i-had-found-to-be-best-for-nikon-raws#latest
Start at top, you might like to try that with your Nikon's Raw files.
I take it that you know the only thing a Raw file 'reads' in camera is WB and Exposure, any other settings like Camera Vivid, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness only apply to jpegs and not the Raw files themselves.
Cheers,
Trev.
After reading yours and Trev's posts, I guess I have to get over the fact that if I shoot RAW, I will have to depend more on "digitally developing" my photos, and really can't get them 100% right in camera. I will however still go after that. I'm fairly new to "real" DSLRs, and want to be a photographer, not a software expert, you know? Maybe that's pie-in-the-sky.
Dave
Regarding processing, you can't avoid it. Your choice, but you either do it on a powerful computer with powerful software, or you do it on the tiny computer brain in your camera. There's a place for both I think, so long as we accept that both approaches class as " image editing " and tailor the choice to the final output we are needing.
I myself regard camera JPEGs as a very efficient form of batch processing in situations where there's loads of shots to take in very similar consistent lighting conditions.
What lens did you use?