God Bless Photoshop

I recently received a couple pieces of very sage advice from a friend. He told me that utilizing the camera raw setting on my camera would allow me to do much more with my photos than just using the JPEG format. As such, yesterday I stopped by the Tech baseball game against UT Pan Am to attempt some action shots. The first picture is an original JPEG image from the baseball game. The second image has been slightly cropped, and touched up using Photoshop Elements and then converted from raw format to JPEG format.



After I left the game, I headed south, out of town, with the intention of trying to shoot my first West Texas sunset. I've seen the sun set in West Texas an awful lot of times, but every picture I've ever taken of the sunset here just didn't do a very good job of demonstrating just how beautiful they can be.

The second piece of advice that I received was to fiddle with the white balance in my pictures while shooting lots and lots of pictures of the same scene. It's not very easy to perfectly capture the scene you envision on the first exposure. So, I pulled my car over to the side of the road, set up my tripod, plugged in my shutter remote and started shooting. Here is one of the pictures I snapped. Once again, the first image is the original JPEG and the second is the raw version, touched up with Photoshop and then converted to JPEG format. Enjoy