Here is couple of photos was taken last weekend on a seaside...See the difference between the original color .JPEG picture and .DNG file after color adjustments...
Let me know what do you think...

Tim

great photo's  fir me the final image is alway for me in the eye of the beholder, but as for jpg over dng, I will alway shoot raw, whether dng, cr2, this just gives so much more oppertunity for light and colour correction, jpg is only 8 bit , ie 256 steps from black to white, and raw 65535 steps from black to white, so say on a blue sky from light blue to dark blue you have the ability to correct without getting sudden jumps to the next shade of blue, or distinct bands of blue appearing on final photo,  

very nice Samples

Mike

chris@chris-hil Posted at 2015-8-14 17:28
great photo's  fir me the final image is alway for me in the eye of the beholder, but as for jpg ove ...

That's true! it gives us an opportunity to make the picture juicy

m.friedl@a1.net Posted at 2015-8-14 17:55
very nice Samples

Mike

thank you, Mike!

Shooting in RAW conserves the full density range and all the pixels (4000x3000), without any loss due to compression.  As opposed to .jpg where much of the density range and pixels are lost forever and cannot be restored later. I consider shooting in RAW like capturing a digital negative that you can always make changes to,  like an original negative, without losing data when processing, cropping, changing density and colors, etc.

If you use software like Adobe Lightroom (awesomestest!) for post processing, then you can keep your RAW images intact as Lightroom only adds a layer on top of the picture with the changes you made, based on a database with the changes in a separate layer in a grid. Like that, your RAW and DNG digital negatives are always changeable without any loss.

Always shoot raw. It gives you much more lateral flexibility in editing. Also in JOEG you are trusting the camera's ability to guess your artistic vision!

Sorry, but what does DNG mean?

Bobcat90 Posted at 2015-8-15 23:05
Sorry, but what does DNG mean?

Digital NeGative.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/41618/dng-file

Great job on the edits. They look great!

wow, big difference. great info for those seeking why use raw which takes more storage space!!
thanks

Nice Stuff, I would like to use DNG but cannot get Photoshop CS3 to accept them. I have tried DJI_DNG_Cleaner and Adobe DNG Converter but cant get them to Photoshop.
Any Ideas?

artemis350 Posted at 2015-10-7 17:04
Nice Stuff, I would like to use DNG but cannot get Photoshop CS3 to accept them. I have tried DJI_DN ...

Cs3 is pretty old, even though the DNG format is adobes, the version might be too new.   Can you upgrade your CS3 at all?  I know even in cs5.5/6 they still update the camera raw program even though they don't update anything else for new cameras and formats.

chris@chris-hil Posted at 2015-8-14 04:28
great photo's  fir me the final image is alway for me in the eye of the beholder, but as for jpg ove ...

With the RAW image format, each pixel sensor is 12-14 bits which would make the steps 4096-16384 steps between black and white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

HTH

good sample... intresting.

Nice work Tim...

You need to be subtle - too much saturation makes the image cartoon-like and unbelievable!

Phuglie Posted at 2015-10-8 21:31
You need to be subtle - too much saturation makes the image cartoon-like and unbelievable!

true, for that time i didn't recognize it, but now i see it's really over saturated

Google/Nik has great filters for Photoshop, especially Colorefex Pro 4.  Very easy to use with excellent results.

Okay, you've done a good job. Blue is perhaps a little too hard, right?

Why are the 2nd DNG images smaller?

wide pictures look better for me, so i just cut them nothing to do with DNG

Hi Tim,
I'm the QA manager for ON1 Software.  We develop photo editing software for the Mac and PC.  I could really use some DNG files from dji cameras for testing.
Do you have any you can share with me?  I don't care about the subject matter, only that they are in the original DNG format.
We will be releasing ON1 Photo RAW 2017 in a few weeks.  It will allow non-destructive editing of DNG files just like Lightroom.  Our product doesn't require a subscription though.
Best regards,
John