Photography for dummies or in this case dummy photographer
Nov 3, 2017 15:48:16 #
All,
I'm venting here and since its Friday afternoon you all get a laugh at my expense. Shot senior night at local high school. Was there to shoot game pix of neighbor player(volunteer job, not paid) and got drafted at last second. Used secondary crop camera with 17-55 APC(Canon) 2.8 lens. Pix look nice on screen but someones wants a 5x7. Low and behold my MP picture size is very small. Scratching my head and a few WTFs later I realize while I was shooting RAW my camera was set to "sRAW" or something like that so low resolution. Idiotic stuff like this- maybe I'm too scatterbrained to be a decent photographer. I need to take a couple of deep breaths and check everything 20 times.
Ok now go on and laugh and shoot something good :)
RT
I'm venting here and since its Friday afternoon you all get a laugh at my expense. Shot senior night at local high school. Was there to shoot game pix of neighbor player(volunteer job, not paid) and got drafted at last second. Used secondary crop camera with 17-55 APC(Canon) 2.8 lens. Pix look nice on screen but someones wants a 5x7. Low and behold my MP picture size is very small. Scratching my head and a few WTFs later I realize while I was shooting RAW my camera was set to "sRAW" or something like that so low resolution. Idiotic stuff like this- maybe I'm too scatterbrained to be a decent photographer. I need to take a couple of deep breaths and check everything 20 times.
Ok now go on and laugh and shoot something good :)
RT
Nov 3, 2017 15:51:02 #
Nov 3, 2017 16:01:28 #
rthompson10 wrote:
All, br br I'm venting here and since its Friday ... (show quote)
I blame Canon for this.
Mike
Nov 3, 2017 16:04:29 #
should work ok good luck
rthompson10 wrote:
All, br br I'm venting here and since its Friday ... (show quote)
Nov 3, 2017 16:12:39 #
rthompson10 wrote:
All, br br I'm venting here and since its Friday ... (show quote)
Don't know which camera/sensor you have, the sRAW will be a different size for each type/size of sensor.
But:
If you use Adobe and have LR & PS, from LR pick edit in > Photo Shop Then when you finish do "save as", pick jpeg and it will give choices of the quality of jpeg you want, pick the highest quality "maximum" it will show a 10 for file size, change that to 12 and you will get the highest quality jpeg it can produce from that file. It should be more than enough to print 5x7.
In general sRAW on a Canon gives you a file 1/4 the sensor MP rating. On my two with 20 MP sensors the sRAW is a 5MP file-that is enough for a 5.7 with pretty good IQ.
Nov 3, 2017 16:13:27 #
Hello Rt don't beat yourself up each and everone has made many mistakes we call it the learing process take photos and have fun keep in touch saying hello from Pittsbrgh.
Nov 3, 2017 16:16:25 #
No problem at all. Simple mistake with no consequences. Nobody is laughing.
Nov 3, 2017 16:28:11 #
I'm glad you got a laugh! This forum is full of friendly, caring, fun people.
Nov 3, 2017 17:17:22 #
I'm not sure what you're worried about ... The clip below is from the 80D manual indicating sRAW from that camera is suitable for an A4 print, roughly legal sized paper in the US. The same will likely apply to any Canon crop model that supports multiple RAW sizes. S1 JPEG will also work for the same print size.
Nov 3, 2017 19:17:35 #
Oh, yeah, I remember now, you got a 7DII so the sensor is 20 MP, therefore the sRAW will be 5 MP, more than enough for 5x7 prints. At least as long as it is isn't too radical a crop before printing.
In fact 5 MP is enough to print 11x14.
In fact 5 MP is enough to print 11x14.
Nov 4, 2017 06:14:29 #
rthompson10 wrote:
All, br br I'm venting here and since its Friday ... (show quote)
sRaw - smaller files and potentially less noisy.
https://photographylife.com/sraw-format-explained
Nov 4, 2017 08:17:05 #
mizzee
Loc: Boston,Ma
Only sympathy here. I shot a whole day in Alaska not realizing that I was in low resolution JPEG format. Vigilance, my friend, vigilance!
Nov 4, 2017 08:46:15 #
rthompson10 wrote:
All, br br I'm venting here and since its Friday ... (show quote)
I believe most of us make such errors.
I suggest you keep L RAW all the time, no real reason to not do it that I am aware of. You can reduce size if desired and if storage media in the camera is an issue get another card. That way you always have the best quality that can be dumbed down if desired.
Nov 4, 2017 10:33:27 #
roowad_1950
Loc: Arizona
We've all done stuff like that...and, no one's laughing. When I was in "photo infancy" I used to shoot low res jpeg images just because I wanted as many photos as I could squeeze out of a card. I don't do that anymore...I just carry more cards and shoot high res jpeg images all of the time. Cards are fairly cheap so, who cares. I will even shoot a lot of raw images on a card but that depends on what I'm shooting. Don't be discouraged my friend...just shoot and shoot and shoot.
Nov 4, 2017 11:39:48 #
GeneV
Loc: Lampasas, Texas
Back in the day (film day that is), I had a 36 exposure film in my camera. Kept shooting and advancing and when the indicator showed 45 I knew something was amiss. Checked the film and all that showed was the leader. I had not secured it properly in the take-up side so no pictures. *&%^$#@! Luckily they were all just snap shots so no big deal. We do learn, don't we???
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