Raw challenge 1:Caroline Schmidt

Experimental editing usually results in discovering your emerging style and, for me, that’s a flare for the dramatic

ABROODING LANDSCAPE with striking reflections and tonal detail is crying out for huge contrast adjustments. With a JPEG file, you have to be especially careful in how you go about edits so not to introduce quality-degrading noise and artefacts. This is why Raw is such a valuable file format: it provides much wider margins to expand exposure information. Thankfully Adam's exposure is spot-on, so I can concentrate on polishing the colour and contrast. Had the file been under or overexposed, I might not have been able to be so demanding on the data without a detriment to quality. While Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom are fine places to make all Raw edits, I prefer to use ACR for base adjustments then continue to edit the Raw files in Photoshop…

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