DARKIUSMAXIMUS wrote:left pic looks brighter to mee thats about all i can say mate
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F'ckin exactly! Left pic is the default Canon compression that it does on the fly.. Yes, there is a bit of overbrightening, which I, being in possession of the great human brain, have fixed in my photo... But then I couldnt get the contrast high enough without going over the "no overbright" limit... Although my pic does look more real, just the color of the guy is a bit too dark, but I couldnt be arsed to fix it anymore, however the Auto-White Balance and autosharpening pic looks more appealing and comes out by default with no need for manual developing... I really struggle to see the advantage of using RAW over a decent JPG which the camera produces...
But then I still have more than half of the book to read..
I also did some tests with HDR-making using RAW and JPGs. First one is a HDR from Camera JPGs, second is from RAW imported into PhotoMatix and third is with added sharpness to the previous one.
![Image](http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3384/img2122and8moretonemapp.th.jpg)
![Image](http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/70/crw21221and8moretonemap.th.jpg)
![Image](http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/crw21221and8moretonemap.th.jpg)
For one, the default autobalance failed (a bit) so the image looks really orange, however, the light was orange from a tungsten light, so why not... For RAWs I corrected the autobalance so that white looks white, however.. I edited DNG files in Adobe Camera Raw and saved it in that program. So i corrected white balance, added sharpness etc... But this all my editing is only accessible from Adobe Camera Raw, so when I import them into PhotoMatix it doesnt see any of the changes and offers me to set the white balance within it... Couldnt find a way around that, so just matched the settings for white balance and got the middle pic.. You can see that the JPG based pic is waaaay sharper, in fact a bit too sharp in places and all my sharpness adjustments in DNG were not seen in Photomatix ffs... So I ended up just quickly adding sharpness to the final picture of the HDR, which is the third pic and is kiiiinda better than the first jpg-based, but not much...
EDIT: Wooho, thanks Cynyx, you saw something I still cant see:))) I mean I understand that manual developing gives better luminosity and color balance, but I cant convince myself of it...