He saw she saw

[Hillbillygirl]

Nice series of shots and stories to go with it for both of ya'.

[Greg_Nuspel]

Casil you are about to learn the RAW advantage, fixing a wrong light balance is a click away.

[casil403]

Lol...JPeg is like an old pair of comfy sneakers i don't wanna give up yet know i must.
Anyhow I got this morning one...is it okay?

[Greg_Nuspel]

I didn't get Casil method down

[Greg_Nuspel]

Her ice is better than mine so I'll have to try again

[casil403]

Yeah but you had rubber boots and were able to walk in the creek to the other side! I was a bit worried that ice shelf I was laying on was gonna give and in I would be head first!...

[Mad Aussie]

Casil ... post 3 is definitely a better choice now.
Don't get all confused with RAW too much ... it's actually simple to understand. It's literally the raw photo with no contamination added from any processing like a jpg is.
A jpg, even with all or most settings tunred off in your camera's menu settings is still a compressed photo, with less info at hand to work with.
The raw is a photo with loads of info at hand for processing but untouched by human hands so to speak.
What this means is the jpg is like painting with base colours and a standard canvas. A raw photos is like having dozens of canvas types and textures as well as a hugely complex colour palette as well.
When you first see the raw photo in lightroom it should not look as good as it could because you haven't processed it yet. It's now up to you to bring out the photo within instead of relying on some piece of software to apply the same processes to every shot like a jpg image. With raw, the artist within you has not finished when the button was pressed, in fact you've only just begun

Greg, don't under sell yourself, you are matching Casil today very well!

[Mad Aussie]

Yeah but you had rubber boots and were able to walk in the creek to the other side! I was a bit worried that ice shelf I was laying on was gonna give and in I would be head first!...

So you work your strengths (as you did nicely) and don't dwell on the weaknesses. Strengthen the weaknesses when you can.

[CarlCraig]

"Winter wonderland" and "up close n personal" totally work for me. The kind of shots I aspire to.

I personally would need an electric snowsuit and mega battery pack to be lying in the snow taking pictures...much respect for that

Re raw. I read on a site that with the d80 raw wasn't necessary but I'm sorry I didn't didn't use it with the last bunch of shots I took...oh well, live n learn.

Carl

[Mad Aussie]

Re raw. I read on a site that with the d80 raw wasn't necessary but I'm sorry I didn't didn't use it with the last bunch of shots I took...oh well, live n learn.

Carl

'Not using RAW' does not mean 'Not taking a good photo' by any stretch. Get a jpg shot right or close to right and you can easily process it satisfactorily.

However, a RAW image allows you to get it right even if it doesn't look close in the viewfinder or lightroom etc (within reason) and it not only allows you do that, but also tends to allow you to process it in more ways or with greater control due to the depth of info kept in the file.