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alaios

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So following my previous post for mixed lighting, I Will be also shooting jpegs for the first time with my d750.
Typically I shoot only raw that I process fast in lightroom.

Are there any edits I will need to do on the camera related the jpeg engine for portraits and noise reduction. I expect to be shooting at iso 3200 most of the time since the middle of the room is quite dim. What size jpeg will you shoot for immediate delivery to customers by email?

Regards
Alex
 
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mikew_RIP

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You will need to look at the in camera jpeg settings,normally Nikon cameras leave the factory with too low a sharpening settings for jpeg,i think you could be talking +5 or 7
 
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Horoscope Fish

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alaios said:
So following my previous post for mixed lighting, I Will be also shooting jpegs for the first time with my d750.
Typically I shoot only raw that I process fast in lightroom.

Are there any edits I will need to do on the camera related the jpeg engine for portraits and noise reduction. I expect to be shooting at iso 3200 most of the time since the middle of the room is quite dim. What size jpeg will you shoot for immediate delivery to customers by email?

Regards
Alex
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I would adjust the (Standard) Picture Profile "Sharpness" setting to +7, the "Saturation" setting to +1 and enable High ISO Noise Reduction.

As for image-size, even a "Small" JPG on the D750 measures 3,000 pixels on the long edge and will yield a sizable... well... file-size. I would probably use "JPG Basic" under the Image Quality menu (use Fine if it makes you feel better) with Image Size set to "Small". JPG Compression I would leave at "Optimal Quality". Those settings will yield images plenty good enough for social media and the like, which are going to compress the ever loving daylights out of the shots anyway.

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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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If you are shooting JPG I would suggest that you use the Fine>>Large setting and also set your camera for better sharpness.



Go into your Menus and highlight the "Shooting" menu (the camera icon)

Drop down to "Picture Controls" and click right one time.

From here, highlight "Standard" and then click right one time.

From this settings menu, increase the "Sharpness" setting to "7".

Drop down and increase the "Saturation" setting +1 notch on the slider.

Press "OK" to exit the menus and you're done.


 
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Samo

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You have to watch just plugging in rote values for sharpening, contrast, saturation, etc for jpegs because different situations cause different results sometimes not really very good. An example would be sometimes +7 on sharpness would be to sharp. Try shooting some raw + jpeg of a subject, compare to each other, and play with the sliders on the raw file then compare. Realize I am talking specifically about sharpness contrast saturation etc not picture modes white balance and what not.

I used to shoot jpegs and followed Rockwells dogma in rote settings. When I started messing with raw files I discovered that sometimes stuff would be over sharpened or over saturated or under saturated. This is the problem with jpegs. Different situations sometimes require different tweaking. Why anyone wouldn't shoot raw is sort of strange when processing them quickly is really no big deal.

It sounds like an advanced concept and it is but it is not very difficult to understand after you do some comparison study.

Having to shoot pegs in order to get shots to customers quickly is a commonly held misconception if you ask me. If you can get beyond that you are working on a more advanced level.
 
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