What’s Your Preference?

Toeknee · #1 (**permalink**) 06-05-2011, 03:44 AM

Help. I've searched the DPS forums and Google and I can't seem to get an answer to my problem. Here we go...
I've taken some bracketed raw images with my new Canon 60D. I download the images using the camera to computer cable and the Canon EOS Utility software. When the utility opens it shows the image with the "raw" icon in the corner and also the icon for bracketed shots.
When I open the image in Photoshop CS5 it opens in Camera Raw but it is just one image. I thought maybe when I open it in CS5 that it would open the three bracketed shots but it is still just one image.
Very frustrating. This also happens when I take the SD card out of the camera and insert it into the computer.
When I had my Nikon it would open with the Nikon utility and save them as three separate files. (((sigh))) Any help would be appreciated. I'm usually a pretty computer/software savvy person and this is just messing with my head!

Thanks!!! Tony

kcoppock · #2 (**permalink**) 06-05-2011, 03:52 AM

I'm sort of confused here. Granted, I'm a Nikon user, and haven't ever used the Canon EOS software, so I don't know if it does any sort of grouping or anything like that, but your bracketed shots will be three separate images. Have you tried just navigating to the memory card, and checking for the three individual files?

Toeknee · #3 (**permalink**) 06-05-2011, 04:52 AM

I think I'm just not explaining this right. Maybe this will help.
When I download to the EOS Utility this is what I get:

It shows that this is a bracketed image in RAW format.
When I open it in Adobe Bridge, this is what I get...just one image (It appears it is the darker of the three bracketed shots)

And then when I open with the Camera RAW I get this...just one image.

Maybe this helps to explain it? On the "feeling really stupid" scale I'm almost at redline!

Thanks!

kcoppock · #4 (**permalink**) 06-05-2011, 05:04 AM

Hmm, I see what it's doing...I just don't know how to fix it. I don't usually use the manufacturer's software for managing images; lately I've been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to handle that sort of thing (Lightroom is really slow on my computer...I need to upgrade).

My recommendation is to bypass the Canon software for now (I'm sure there's a simple explanation, I just don't know it) and just import all the files by hand. You should have three separate RAW images: one for each exposure. I think the Canon software is just recognizing the bracketed sequence and displaying it as a group. Maybe someone else will chime in with a software-specific fix.

Good luck!

Toeknee · #5 (**permalink**) 06-05-2011, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by kcoppock

Hmm, I see what it's doing...I just don't know how to fix it. I don't usually use the manufacturer's software for managing images; lately I've been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to handle that sort of thing (Lightroom is really slow on my computer...I need to upgrade).

My recommendation is to bypass the Canon software for now (I'm sure there's a simple explanation, I just don't know it) and just import all the files by hand. You should have three separate RAW images: one for each exposure. I think the Canon software is just recognizing the bracketed sequence and displaying it as a group. Maybe someone else will chime in with a software-specific fix.

Good luck!

Thanks Kevin!

Toeknee · #6 (**permalink**) 06-07-2011, 02:03 AM

OK, so I figured out what the h-e-double-toothpicks I was doing wrong. Not even going to tell you all, THAT is how embarrassed I am!

kcoppock · #7 (**permalink**) 06-07-2011, 02:35 AM

Hehe

Glad you figured it out!

Emily4Pres · #8 (**permalink**) 06-08-2011, 12:40 AM

Ha! I'd like to know because (up to this point) I have been using Canon's EOS software as well. Newbie to Newbie (?), I would probably have had the same question if I had been shooting bracketed shots hehe

Toeknee · #9 (**permalink**) 06-08-2011, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Emily4Pres

Ha! I'd like to know because (up to this point) I have been using Canon's EOS software as well. Newbie to Newbie (?), I would probably have had the same question if I had been shooting bracketed shots hehe

OK, that makes sense...we are all here to learn, eh? When you are taking bracketed exposures with the Canon 60D the auto drive mode has two settings: In one you have to press the shutter three separate times...in the other mode you press the shutter once and it fires off your three shots. Guess which mode I was in???

STOP LAUGHING!