Letsgodiving
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Shooting for the moon.My first moon shot. I took it last weekend and wasn't too pleased with it at first and then played around a little and it turned out ok with some tweaking. It's a jpeg. so I was very limited in what I could do with it. On some level I'm kind of hesitant to shoot RAW and then PS but seeing some of the before and after pics that people produce I may have to rethink that. There are a couple other techniques I want to try to improve on the moon shot but for now this is the best I have.
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uncle aj
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Re: Shooting for the moon. | Letsgodiving wrote: | My first moon shot. I took it last weekend and wasn't too pleased with it at first and then played around a little and it turned out ok with some tweaking. It's a jpeg. so I was very limited in what I could do with it. On some level I'm kind of hesitant to shoot RAW and then PS but seeing some of the before and after pics that people produce I may have to rethink that. There are a couple other techniques I want to try to improve on the moon shot but for now this is the best I have.
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That's not a bad shot. 
I shoot RAW now and would not go back. With the moon shot I don't think it would have made a ton of difference as it's basically black and white. With colour it's a different matter, you can change just about everything.
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Tools
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Great looking Moon.........
I shoot RAW as well......... The Digital Photo Pro bundled with your 40d will open it up and you can reset your WB, tones, and sharpen it a bit; then just click on file and "convert and save", then save it to a very respectable TIFF file and do all your Post Process tweaking until finally saving it to the very much more compressed JPEG that you need for the web etc..
With your 40d, you can go to the menu while in P mode, and set the file to save in both RAW + JPEG if you want. A great way to set yours up is to set for RAW in P mode and everything on that side of the dial will be RAW files; then set the "green box" to save as a JPEG and everything on that side of the dial will be JPEG.
Once you're comfortable with RAW, there isn't really any reason to shoot any other way. Except for the initial download and then "Convert and Save" there is no muss or fuss.......although, you might need some bigger CF cards.... 
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Letsgodiving
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Thanks!
I shot RAW today for the first time and with the limited amount of processing that the Canon software gives you I could tell a difference. Although, I only have one 2GB card so it only allows for 141 pics and I almost ran out. Another thing on the list to buy I guess. I'm seeing that this hobby can be equipment intensive which is all part of the fun.
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The early cards were only 512MB max, and were expensive, but then the original digital "Professionals" only had 4 to 5MP.... and the Canon 1D stored them as TIFF files..
I thought I was going to have to take out a loan with the first 2gig card I bought........
I now run a 4gig card in the 5d for 246 RAW shots, and a 4gig in the 30D for 437 RAW shots, with the 2gig cards as back-ups....although I don't shoot as much as I used to..
I see that they now have 8 and 16's available...... 
The biggest problem is the storage space on your hard drive if you try to save everything... Good excuse for one of those new Terabyte back-ups..... 
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