I have found this super-insightful. Sorry it has taken me so long to re-engage. I have learned:
- Camera jpegs are OK, not all pics have to come from raw to be good. (Heaven help the partners of people who only shoot raw I say!)
- People come up with quite different optimal raw images - so there is a range of tastes. Mine therefore are OK
- RAW editing seems to be quite complex and there is quite a learning curve - and you need to love it to want to impove a 95% correct image - I can see that it would come into its own rescuing a problem image.
I still want to spend time jpeg-ifyng some of these raw image edits to see if I can get a better jpeg from them. I honestly thought that I must have stuffed up my lens settings on the day (can happen on the manual Samyang - f22 is truly junk - and you only find out a week later at home !). I thought this sequence of images (there are many more) was unprintable on canvas - but I no longer think that.
Thanks all!