Shooting in the Raw and a Beautiful Fairy

Digital cameras give you plenty of opportunity to improve your photography. Most digital cameras have settings to enable you to shoot in the raw mode, tiff mode or jpg mode. Shooting in the raw mode gives you a lot more opportunity to improve your images, corrections can be made to white balance, adjustments can be made to brightness and contrast to improve the dynamic range of the image. Shooting in raw mode retains all the original information captured by the cameras sensor. Shooting in tiff mode generally retains most of the image details but produces extremely large file sizes. Shooting in jpg mode compresses the image and some of the detail is lost. The image below of the beautiful fairy was taken with a Nikon D2H in raw mode, the Nikon 17-55mm lens was used at 55mm. This image was taken at Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan.

Have a Laugh

This image was taken at Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan. A Nikon D2H camera wa used together with the Nikon 17-55mm lens. The image was taken at 50mm, F/4.0 and 1/1250 second. The image was taken during the day parade. Digital photography gives great potention for enhancing and improving images, with this image being processed in Photoshop to give it a slight increase in saturation.

It is a Good Idea to Look in Your Own Backyard

All the following images have been taken from my own back yard. It is amazing what you can capture from your own yard. All images are taken with the Nikon D2h camera.

Lightning, Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 Zoom lens

Flowers, Nikon 200mm Micro lens.

Conjunction of Moon, Venus and Jupiter, Nikon 105mm Micro lens.

Bee on Daisy, Nikon 200mm Micro lens.