I prefer lower saturation, maybe -1 becoz images from DSLRs tend to be a lil' strong in colour, but if you're suffering from soft images, it's not the camera's problem ... you need to get yourself a better lens

.. thus slowing you down and can affect your workflow if you're doing it for money and time is a factor. I always recommend shooting in JPEG format.

Well at the least you know what RAW formats are and what benefits they have. I have asked photographers during events why are they shooting in RAW format and they answered me "I dunno, they say shooting RAW is better"

The point is "... shooting RAW is better" is correct in a way, but I seriously pity their "I dunno..." mentality. 'Monkey see Monkey do' is very bad for the learning curve. Many newbies are shy to ask, hence they get more questions than answers at the end of the day, they should understand WHAT they are doing and WHAT contributes to an image result.

I self-helped more than a year mastering digital photography with a DSLR before I can take control of my images via camera settings and post processing. Arguably, film was much much easier to control : Basically I had only a roll of film in my camera, one fixed ISO and an entire world to snap. Shutter speed and aperture is all I need to know and to set to get that perfect shot. With DSLRs, I had to worry about the new ways they are getting the exposure readings and colour render ALL OVER again! And ... I took up a new term, something I never encountered during film time ...

Colour Balance

This post has been edited by ac98: Dec 30 2006, 11:01 PM

Yeah, histogram are not difficult to read but they function as good a guide as your LCD, so stick to your LCD. White Balance ... well ... not many ppl can actually tell me what is wrong with their images impromptu during events, so how would they know HOW to go about correct what they dun even know was wrong?

It's so easy to turn an image from colour to black and white, over-saturate or under-saturate them, but how do you intend to balance out images damaged by sodium light? Flouracent light? Tungsten lighting? Bulb light? A candle or a spotlight? There are just too many questions out there about WB. Even before any photographer tells ppl "Oh, I like it yellow like this!" he must ALSO know how to explain his style to his viewers before one of them puts one hand up and says "But that is not yellow, it's orange/red/magenta!!"

Yes you're right but it's not 'making' the colour abit to strong ... the colour is already BEING too strong.

Professionals won't tell you much about PP, they'll tell you to use FILM