So, I am a fledgling photographer and I have tons of questions for the photography guys at Photography & Friends Plus. Since I am invested in Nikon and Adobe, most of my first questions will revolve around those 2 products. My questions are concerning: bracketing, stacking, raw files, and Lightroom.
I have a Nikon D810 full frame camera (yes, it’s heavy as hell with it’s telephoto lenses attached). When we sold our house, we had a professional photographer take the pictures and I was fascinated with the technique he was using – “bracketing”. I had originally purchased a Nikon D5300 with its 3 kit lenses. There were things that the camera had and things had left me wanting. One of those things I wanted was decent bracketing – or shooting pictures in succession from the same POV but just altering the exposure. You capture the lightest lights and the darkest darks and everything in between and really get a HD picture when you re-assemble them using a technique called “stacking”. There are other types of bracketing – depth of field, focus, flash, white balance but I was interested in exposure bracketing. The thing with bracketing is that you need some additional software that allows you to “stack” the images to get the final result. Astro Photography also uses this technique.
This leads me to my second question… How in the hell do I get the RAW files off the camera and onto a Windows PC? I have RAW + Fine JPG selected on my camera – the camera is creating both files. I can see them, look at them, manipulate them on the camera but when I take them off, bam! I am left with 2 jpg files. I can’t seem to get the raw files off the camera. My goal and future project is to shoot glass using these techniques. I collect Czech glass vases and want to photograph my collection. This is in preparation for another project that I have for the future! First things first. My guess is that there is something stupid that I am doing or not doing that is preventing me from getting these file off the camera as both types.
My assumption is that Lightroom Classic can do all this. Maybe not, but I see that there are drivers for raw files from Adobe. There is probably a stacking feature also, but not real sure.
-Rat