> I guess I need to actually learn how to use Photoshop efficiently. > Could you recommend any particular books that approach Photoshop from > a photographer's point of view? > > My wife will have her hands full with herding our daughter down the > aisle (flower girl), as well as helping with the coordination of the > wedding day, so I'm not expecting any help from her. This means that > dumping memory cards to the laptop may not happen until it's all > over. > Shoot JPEG, or suck it up and buy a few more SD cards to allow me to > shoot RAW? I may try to con another family member into doing some > donkey work for me, but I'm not counting on it. > > Any other advice for a wedding newbie would be greatly appreciated. > In the meantime my daughter's probably going to grow to hate the > camera, and my next-door-neighbor's teenage daughter is getting free > senior portraits (I need the practice).
You want to use RAW and edit in [EMAIL PROTECTED] once converted to obtain as much dynamic range as possible ... wedding dresses and black tuxedos with skin tones in the same light is one of the more difficult scene dynamics. If you are using Photoshop CS/CS2, Bruce Fraser's "Real World Camera Raw with Photoshop CS[CS2]" (there are two different editions for the different versions of photoshop) is an essential learning tool for RAW image processing in the environment. I feel it has valuable information whether or not you are using Photoshop-Camera Raw too. While there are lots of other books that address higher level editing in Photoshop from useful perspectives, this book presents the basics in RAW conversion concepts and workflow that a photographer absolutely must have first. (Nowadays, I'd do the editing and image management in Lightroom but the conceptual underpinnings in this book have proven invaluable anyway.) Have enough memory on hand to capture 300-400 exposures. That's about four 1G cards for a DS/DL, about five for a K10D. My usual reaction when someone suggests I should do wedding photography is to flee. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
