Ever wonder how bad you can screw up?

[jprime84]

Had an eye opening experience shooting in RAW recently. I changed from an indoor environment to a really bright outdoor environment and forgot to re adjust my ISO, exposure, and white balance. I didnt notice how off the picture was, because the sun was so bright i couldnt see the LCD screen.

The attached file is what I discovered when I got home. Using ONLY Adobe Camera Raw in CS4, I slid a few sliding bars and was able to transform it into this!



Not completely perfect, but still an amazing transformation.

[Nicole]

Wow, yeah, that's quite a difference!

[candleman]

very good... nice recovery.
another notch for Raw..

[BabetteKD]

Beautiful save! Didn't know you could fix something that light into something so detailed, even in RAW.

[digirebelva]

Thats why i shoot in raw as well..sometimes i forget to make the changes on the camera when the environment changes

[Usuqa]

nice recovery

something similar (dps post) i did a while ago.. but its recovery from the other side of the scale

[muimi07]

Great recovery! I had a similar experience in saving some photos of my daughter's first Christmas. Amazing what RAW can do!

[belladoja]

Thats amazing--thank God for raw and Photoshop to fix it. That's a keeper!

[isolation]

Wow, that is really incredible. RAW is the only way for me for these very reasons.

[fanatiker]

I can not wait until I have the chance to shoot in RAW. Really show the differences, this just me excited for my upgrade from point and shoot even more!