So this weekend has also seen me playing around with some raw images from the M50 with a view to finding a good workflow for HDR.
Normally I shoot jpeg more often than not but wondered if the raw would give me a better starting point, or allow me to shoot a single image and then expose differently to get a set of three images from a single image.
Biggest issue was getting an HDR software to recognise the .CR3 files from the M50 - Win10 won't show a thumbnail either despite downloading/updating some codec.
Found an update for Faststone, the viewer I use to select which images I'm going to keep for further editing which at least allows me to see the .CR3 images - the older version just ignored them.
I'd forgotten the downsides to new cameras now I have an Adobe subscription for Photoshop & Lightroom - everything is seamless with them, no waiting for new camera updates, they just appear as if by magic.
So against my better judgement I downloaded the Canon DPP software in the vain hope that it would help. If nothing else I guess it allows me to convert the raw into a more readable format but then jpegs are already readable so not 100% sure that's much of a win. It's mainly around the noise reduction settings that I stress over shooting raw because this isn't applied to the raw and unless I use DPP, software such as Lightroom and Photoshop can't apply the same level because the data is proprietary to Canon and they don't share it.
Which bring me back to why am I bothering I guess? Why not just stick to the jpeg and be done with it. My camera offers a built-in HDR which sometimes works well and sometimes looks a little flat.
Maybe I just need to experiment more with the right sort of subject - take a selection of images in different forms and see what works best...
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