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Friday, July 24, 2009

Camera Settings




These shots, which I thought were good, broke my heart. There was this terrific sky with the sun setting behind the hill and the old farm house out in front giving a great photo opp. I jumped out of the car and got as many shots as I could before the light was gone.

I looked on the back of my camera and many were, I thought, exceptional. Later, I would discover that they were all shot in Standard Quality JPEG. I had been shooting in RAW earlier in the day and thought I might be running out of space and decided to change to HQ JPEG but must have accidentally put it on SQ. Every one of them were smaller than 1 MB leaving me very little to work with in Photoshop and not very good for prints.
With prices so cheap now for large format video cards, there is no reason to shoot in SQ - EVER. I have a 4GB SanDisk in my camera and I carry a 2GB as back up - although I doubt that I will ever use it.

1 comment:

Susanna Carter Cline said...

I like how the sky looks so ominous in these pics.