acloehlein
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kinda in the dark with what software i should be using is there one program that is a do all and is cheap for raw images!!!???
This question has been asked and answered a lot on this forum, so poke around since a lot of advice won't get given twice.
I literally was going to say something similar. . . . Best advice is to try Lightroom. Why cheap out on software when you just spent a bunch of money to get the camera? Sorta like buying an expensive car and complaining about how much gas costs.
There is no real answer ..your life ..your camera ..your decision
Absolutely. What you can adjust/correct on a .jpg is nice, there's some room to play there, but it's like driving a horse and buggy: You have the reins and have your hand brake and you can turn left or right -- just not very fast and typically in wide arcs -- but even so you can get most places you want to go... Or at least get close.Excuse my ignorance but being new to photography, is there really that much you can amend afterwards anyway?
Of course we try, but being able to manipulate and correct for things out of our control is what makes shooting in RAW as powerful as it is. It really just depends on what you want out of photography. You bought a DSLR over a point and shoot... Why? Serious question. Why did you do that? I ask because if you thought by doing so you were going to get great pictures by using "A"utomatic I'm afraid you're mistaken. Most likely you'll get very good pictures most of the time but that's about it.Surely 99% of what you are trying to achieve is done before the click?
Don't sell you 3100 short, it's a powerhouse of a camera that you need to rise up to. I could trade cameras with a lot of photographers on these forums -- they'd be shooting my 5100 and I could use their D4, for instance -- and while they would continue to turn out stunning work using my low end equipment, mine would still be mediocre because it's not the tool in the hand of the craftsman, it's how the craftsman uses the tool in his (or her) hand.Of course, it depends how far you take your photography but my impression is that a d3100 is only scratching the the edge of intermediate standards. I guess if you know what you are doing that additional 1% could make a difference, but generally speaking, does it really matter whether we shoot in jpeg or raw? Or how we view are shots, I just plug into my laptop and if I want to enhance/change anything I use the cameras built in settings..