Help Converting to JPG from RAW

[tived]

https://www.yousendit.com/download/M...Uzd6RS8wZXNUQw

Hi you may have missed spelled or left something out of my email address to varify
tived @ iinet dot net dot au
Henrik

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Master g,

tived at iinet dot iinet dot au

Henrik

sent it there >_>

[tived]

Hi, thanks sending me the file,

here are a couple of screen grabs that I made while looking at the file.


The above is from Adobe Camera RAW CS6 beta - looking at them online, they look a lot darker then when viewed through any of the applications, and the goes for all three images

this is the default settings for View NX2

the last one here I have used the "use grey point" to select the color balance, which does give it a bit more neutral look but also makes the sky have a blue tint.

Now, I had written something very profound but lost it... so this just a little run down.

You did expose the image manually as you said and when looking through the view finder you should have had a little indicator with +/- that shows where the exposure would be compare to "Correct exposure - for middle grey (128,128,128)" in this case you should have seen something like -1 or -1 1/2 stop under exposed, which would have given you the correct exposure. this is where the sky isn't completely rendered black (deep dark blue'ish)

So what i had intended to say was that, you can manipulate the images color via White Balance in the Nikon Software and increase or decrease the exposure and contrast till you get what you think is pleasing - you can see something similar in my first image from Adobe Camera Raw... to without know any better I would make the image as neutral as possible, but when you took the photo there may have been a hit of color in those clouds, but only know...or you could just add color to those clouds as if there were indeed color in them.

When you shoot raw you have the opportunity to improve the images over what was taken, but its not a straight science its very subjective, but first you need to know how to use the tools... so spend some time with the Nikon software or better yet, get a better software with gives you easier and more access to control the image. If you do not want to spend any money on it, there is RAWTrapeze i think its called, or if you have Photoshop, then you will have Adobe Camera RAW, Now I am not sure if this is available in the Element version.

All the best, please do not hesitate to ask any question

Henrik