Let's see your black & whites!!

[Matt]

I just try to take the best photo that I can with my little Canon HS230.
Sometimes, I hit the "enhance" button in iPhoto, but feel like I should just try and work on my shooting technique and perfect using the "manual" setting the camera offers.
It feels like cheating when the quality of a photo depends on something besides the camera.
I like to think that much of photography is being in the right place at the right time, as well as having the eye to spot what looks cool to you and capture it accordingly. Sharing what I see doesn't have to involve altering what I saw. Sometimes, it's luck, sometimes it's legwork. Ansel Adams didn't use Photoshop, Aperture, or Lightbox, but his photos are timeless.
This is not to say that I don't embellish some of the ones I choose to blow up and hang on the walls of my house, though.

[Mark Curtis]

Just to clarify, I wasn't trying to suggest that JPEGs have a wider dynamic range than RAW. I may have stated it confusingly. What I meant to say was that by using HDR it increases the range for JPEGs vs JPEGs alone. The question is whether or not that is critical to the scene for which you are shooting. As was suggested by Dancesatmoonrise, the Colorado mountains are typically a place where it is quite relevant. I know the camera I have now is greatly improved for that latitude.....even with the JPEG's.

As far as the continous shooting.....all I can say is not all of us have a D7000! My K-r also does 6fps, but it does impact the buffer (regardless of card) when using RAW. I agree the higher class card will help, but most cameras are better suited for JPEGs for the type of shooting described. Plus, most of us are not shooting for Sports Illustrated......here's a shot I took of my son playing soccer with the K-r and one of the kit lenses, a JPEG at 200mm: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ ... 17-4-1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Let's put it this way, if you need more detail than that, then you SHOULD be shooting for Sports Illustrated! I got the K-r with 18-55 and 50-200 lenses brand new for $495. Most of the shots I have posted here were with that camera and one of those lenses (a couple of the others with an older Pentax....the *istDL). Check out the mountain goat shots in the Wildlife thread (mine are the ones with the goofy captions! ) if you want to see more of what a sub 500 dollar camera can do using a JPEG setting.

Finally, here is a quote from a professional review of the K-r: "JPEG processing leads to sharper images than their Raw counterparts, and JPEG images shot at higher ISOs also benefit from greater noise reduction". It does go on to say there is more scope for post processing alteration of both noise and sharpness in RAW, but the point is made for relevance to out of camera shots.

[highpilgrim]

Ansel Adams didn't use Photoshop, Aperture, or Lightbox, but his photos are timeless

Yeah,Matt, but he was a master of darkroom technique including dodging and burning. His pics are spectacular, partly due to all the compositional skills he had mastered, but also because he knew how to use the technology of the time to amplify everything he had captured in the image.

I'm not sure that Ansel would have shunned all of the new technology. He'd just use it more adroitly.

Greg

[mattpayne11]

Ansel Adams didn't use Photoshop, Aperture, or Lightbox, but his photos are timeless

Yeah,Matt, but he was a master of darkroom technique including dodging and burning. His pics are spectacular, partly due to all the compositional skills he had mastered, but also because he knew how to use the technology of the time to amplify everything he had captured in the image.

I'm not sure that Ansel would have shunned all of the new technology. He'd just use it more adroitly.

Greg

Well stated. Ansel Adams was an average photographer (with great composition skills) but he was a master in the darkroom.

Mark - I get what you are saying now - sorry I got confused hehe.

[Tory Wells]

LOVE all the photos...thanks for sharing, folks!

[Tory Wells]

Boulder Falls...

[Mark Curtis]

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[Dancesatmoonrise]

Mark Curtis, dammit, you're a master!!

[Mark Curtis]

Mark Curtis, dammit, you're a master!!

Naw, I just have a LOT of fun! I just might, though, show those six words to my wife!

[mattpayne11]

I meant to post this sooner - Mark your work is really great man - keep it coming!

[GeorgiaTyler]

Grenadiers, San Juans, CO

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[skibum4life]

Just a couple. Don't mean to brag but that one was a self-timer shot :D