RAW

light upon light

Sunset yesterday i was in the front yard by the pond with the 180mm 2.8 manual lens, lamenting just having missed a lady bug flying from the top of the pickerel weed. The 180mm with the manual focus and manual setting of exposure is a difficult lens to try and capture quick moving scenes. A dragonfly sat upon the end of the pickerel weed stem and I shot away, perhaps two dozen various poses, trying to get the background right in relation to the dragonfly. This was the third of the only three I shot in RAW, versus JPEG. I mostly shoot JPEG for the smaller files and usually I am satisfied with the compression. RAW is when one opens the shot in a program like Adobe or Lightroom and all the exposure data and such are preserved in a larger file, allowing for greater manipulation of the image. Here, I simply converted it to JPEG so what is the use of shooting RAW for me at this point, seeing that I do not use fancy post processing techniques?
Just an evening form of exercise, Lord knows I need some form of exercise, seeing that I have all but ceased the running, the biking, the hiking. Like the D7100, the 10-24, the 70-200, the 80-400 I am going to purchase. Some day. Another day.
For now it is simply the D3100 consumer end camera, the 35mm 1.8 prime, or the old manual Nikon lenses, left from the F3 and film era.