First proper attempt with RAW files

Invasion · 19 Mar 2013 at 16:28

Iv'e been having a play with Lightroom today, and this is my first real attempt at improving a picture. I am quiet pleased with the result.

Going to take all my pictures in RAW now. I have a copy of: Adobe Classroom in a book Lightroom 4. Going to have a good to read tonight

Nothing special, just a snap of the dog with his stick obsession. Any opinions appreciated anything I could do to improve the detail etc etc
First one jpg out the camera:

Second RAW and the converted to jpg:

Invasion · 19 Mar 2013 at 16:46

theheyes said:
Is your screen calibrated?

No haven't got round to that yet. does it look odd on your screen?

Invasion · 19 Mar 2013 at 17:03

King Damager said:
Not sure if your WB is right..

kd

I will have to calibrate it I guess, just to make sure. looking at the dog now, his white fur, looks spot on to my screen

Invasion · 19 Mar 2013 at 17:17

Mp4 said:
The before shot looks more white than the edit

In a bad way ? Derek is more off white than white.

Invasion · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:13

xaldub said:
Agreed, the RAW conversion looks a bit yellow/orange to me. The colour on the original looks more correct, just needs a bit of a bump up in exposure .... and maybe some use of the shadows slider. Apply clarity if you want to extract a bit more detail from his fur etc ...

Cool dog I might add

thanks he is quite a character

Phal said:
Looks fine to me as you said, I doubt your dog is perfectly white hehe

Thanks

he isn't although I've had another go with the white balance and maybe this is better ?