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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Raw pre-processing

Portland Headlight - Portland, ME
When traveling I generally take pictures in raw format, in my case Nikon NEF. I shoot raw for a few different reasons; higher dynamic range, full control over the picture, post exposure error correction, the list goes on. It does come with it's disadvantages though, one of which being that my underpowered travel netbook bogs down to a crawl when processing them. There is however a bit of salvation. Since I use linux on my netbook I have access to the powerful command line and a little program called ufraw.

By using this program I can convert all of my raw images from my memory card to jpg format for easy and quick review. I can review all of my photos and prune out the duplicates and bad shots. The whole process is incredibly easy and only consists of 1 line of command-line-fu.

ufraw-batch --out-type=jpeg --out-path=/home/Pictures/export --compression=85 /media/memory_card/MyPics/*.NEF


This leaves you with jpg files in a separate folder for reviewing so you know which of your raw files you should keep and which you should delete.
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12 comments:

  1. TriciaMay 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    that is a fantastic picture! Love it
    following

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  2. T. Roger ThomasMay 10, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    My point and shoot Canon does do RAW sadly. I wanna get into some of the cool features of Lightroom too!

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  3. DaveMay 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    The Lighthouse pic is really nice.

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  4. MikeMay 10, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    Interesting picture.

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  5. UnknownMay 10, 2011 at 6:22 PM

    Great pic and great read.

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  6. JayMay 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    I use Canon's DPP (packaged software). It's pretty basic, but it does a great job with noise, chromatic aberration, etc.

    :)

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  7. AnonymousMay 10, 2011 at 11:01 PM

    The raw shot of the lighthouse is sublime :D

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  8. Schla.mp3May 11, 2011 at 12:25 AM

    i love headlights

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  9. CDHilaritiesMay 11, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    thats pretty cool
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  10. Najal SamaMay 11, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    This is really interesting.

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  11. Just MeMay 11, 2011 at 3:27 PM

    nice tip.

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  12. DrewMay 12, 2011 at 3:17 AM

    Ive always wanted to use Linux, thats actually pretty interesting. Nice shot btw if you took it.

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