Then I played around with UFRaw and my raw photos, and tried to figure things out. My friend Ashley has been giving me some good "raw" advice. You can look at her work and/or hire her through her website, Ashley Shaw Photography. Tell her I sent 'cha!
However, I am having some serious color issues with my first batch. I don't know if my camera settings were somehow way off or what happened, but my colors need major adjusting and they still seem way off. My reds and my greens on the histogram are not lining up, and I vaguely remember Ashley showing me an example where it was just given that they would line up. I was trying to find the best adjustment, but it looked slightly off. I still made the most of the lemons, made some lemonade, and I'm pretty pleased. I know the colors are kind of crazy. My auto corrects were just giving me gibberish. When I took the photos, they were looking fine on my camera. I might need to load some presets about my camera into UFRaw. I don't know. Or be better about doing a white balance check in the moment. Another thing to add to my list of homework.
Other things I was able to successfully accomplish were making a duplicate layer and using a cool tool on it to make an "unsharpening mask," which actually helps to sharpen things. Seems like a misnomer though, huh? I took the opacity down because full blast usually looks like crap. But I bet there could be some instances where it could give a good artsy look.
Here are some of the photos I got. I love taking pictures of my daughter, and we were having a fun day at this cool little spot that used to be a Halloween pumpkin patch turned Santa's Village.
"Christmas for Cowboys (and Cowgirls)"
"Christmas Awe B/W"
"Wistful and Angelic"
"Christmas Golfing"
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