{"id":15071,"date":"2013-05-08T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T00:10:26","slug":"blackbird-on-stilts-subtitled-jpeg-vs-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/blackbird-on-stilts-subtitled-jpeg-vs-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird On Stilts (subtitled JPEG vs RAW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the oldest bird images in my files, taken on 6\/17\/07 and\u00a0very soon after I became serious about bird photography.\u00a0 At the time I was still shooting JPEGs (rather than RAW).<\/p>\n

In my ignorance, making the decision to start shooting RAW was stressful for me.\u00a0 I was already overwhelmed by everything I had yet\u00a0to master, from camera and lens operation to computer and processing skills and I was reluctant to add\u00a0yet another layer to the mountain of\u00a0“stuff” I had to learn.\u00a0 After about 6 months I finally took the plunge and changed the setting on my old Canon XTi from JPEG to\u00a0RAW and I’ve never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0The only thing I’ve ever regretted was taking so long to make the change.\u00a0 To this day I dread having to\u00a0process one of those older images that was taken as a\u00a0JPEG (like the\u00a0photo below).<\/p>\n

The JPEG vs RAW debate has been around for a while and I don’t mean to settle it here.\u00a0 All I know is that I much prefer processing RAW files for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

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\"Yellow-headed<\/a><\/p>\n

1\/1600, f\/8, ISO 400, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I always get a kick out of seeing birds in spread-eagled poses like this\u00a0Yellow-headed Blackbird is demonstrating\u00a0– it makes me think that if they don’t let go they’re going to split down the middle clear to the wishbone (furcula).\u00a0 Usually when I see this pose\u00a0the two “perches” the bird is grasping are green reeds with many other reeds of similar colors nearby in the frame.\u00a0 But the contrasting\u00a0light color of these dried cattails from the previous year makes them stand out so much that it reminded me of a blackbird on stilts – thus the title.<\/p>\n

The photo was taken just after sunrise so the light had a warming effect on the blacks of the bird.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of the oldest bird images in my files, taken on 6\/17\/07 and\u00a0very soon after I became serious about bird photography.\u00a0 At the time I was still shooting JPEGs (rather than RAW). In my ignorance, making the decision to start shooting RAW was stressful for me.\u00a0 I was already overwhelmed by everything I had yet\u00a0to master, from camera and lens operation to computer and processing skills and I was reluctant to add\u00a0yet another layer to the mountain of\u00a0“stuff” I had to learn.\u00a0 After about 6 months I finally took the plunge and changed the setting on my old Canon XTi from JPEG to\u00a0RAW and I’ve never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0The only thing I’ve ever regretted was taking so long to make the change.\u00a0 To this day I dread having to\u00a0process one of those older images that was taken as a\u00a0JPEG (like the\u00a0photo below). The JPEG vs RAW debate has been around for a while and I don’t mean to settle it here.\u00a0 All I know is that I much prefer processing RAW files for a variety of reasons.   1\/1600, f\/8, ISO 400, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light I always get a kick out of seeing birds in spread-eagled poses like this\u00a0Yellow-headed Blackbird is demonstrating\u00a0– it makes me think that if they don’t let go they’re going to split down the middle clear to the wishbone (furcula).\u00a0 Usually when I see this pose\u00a0the two “perches” the bird is grasping are green reeds with many other reeds of similar colors nearby in the frame.\u00a0 But…<\/p>\n

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