Just messing around with my RAW settings!

I had taken this pictures in Hawaii last spring. It was just around the time that I was contemplating using RAW, but I hadn’t fully committed. Because of that I only used my RAW settings for some of my pictures and the switched back to JPG for the remainder of the trip. The below pictures is the SOOC shot.

It just isn’t a big deal, but after I got home and started to play with the pictures, I realized that I had the most fun with my RAW pictures. I realized how much more I could do with them to increase the already beautiful colors into something even better. The one below this is my edited one that I increased the black a little that was about it. Although I didn’t change much, it felt like I had a totally different picture on my hand!

Now this one below is just me playing around with the Digital Photo Professional software that came with my camera. I just played around with the individual colors and such. Not sure whether I prefer the second one to this one, but it was fun to see all the different ways that one little picture can look like with just a few settings adjusted.

What I really want to say though is that you shouldn’t be afraid to play a little and see what kind of masterpiece you can come up with. Enjoy!!!!