Oufff ok this is my first Play Raw of a picture I snapped today. I still can’t do anything nice with the RAW in DT so I used the JPG of the EOS T7 to adjust a few things, as well as color improvement, to have more vivid green colors.
My idea was to bring the picture closer to what I could see with my eyes because obviously, the camera is unable to calculate proper exposures naturally between the sky and the ground without any filters.
This is my result, I would wish for deeper blue in the sky but it’s a difficult task. 2024-08-24 - 0717 - N3p-.CR2 (28.7 MB)
And the conclusion from previous discussions was that, it’s possible to use a RAW and to make a new, much betterpicture then what the camera can process to JPG by itself, (which was pretty poor without post processing, in terms of exposures between the sky and the ground)
License: The image can be used for the educational and artistic purposes of this play raw only.
I tried to use use settings to get a long dept of field in this picture by using a aperture of 11. I think I used an autofocus and the focus is a bit better on the soybeans then the trees on in background.
I am a bit unhappy about the sharpness of the tree line but I like the focus on the soybeans.
In your opinion, is it a matter of using a aperture even smaller then 11 next time? Or should I simply manually focus on the trees in the background?
There is an option to choose the point of focus with my camera, I am still not familiar with it.
I have tried to make the blues darker using the color equalizer module which allows to to darken or lighten specific colors and tweak there saturation as well. Color zones module works similar for this. I also did a second instance of exposure to darken the top of the image using a gradient mask.
Your camera may have a depth of field Preview button that allows you to see through the viewfinder or perhaps on the digital display what effect your chosen aperture will have on the finished image prior to taking the shot.
I’m still learning myself and will sometimes take shots of a scene with different aperture settings just to see what happens.
