People along the way- often up close and personal-sometimes sweet (lots of pictures warning)

[Mira]

Starting with a few in Sedona - where people gathered to await the sunset at the airport on high.
this guy warranted two angles




See - the shadows got long as we waited




I had to humor bored kids


She is setting up for the show telling me about "raw" photos, I have not looked up what that means yet


For fair and balanced (meaning the photographer just now) here is one for the other gender- or whatever trips you 2 French speaking guys from Canada
(remember "A Fish called Wanda? To me french speaking is very very interesting)


Going to the river, the beauty of this is that the little boy was crying in terror to cross and then he braved up

And this is what he may look like in 60 years


Hiking along


meeting more people

This little one was being babysat by the people on the wall at Navajo Natl Monument (pictures to follow another day) while her parents hiked down to the pueblos built into the mountains

These guys I found on the road leading from the previous river


This little guy was playing in the sand of "The Arches" (subject of another future set of pictures)


This is a photo from a lunch restaurant in Jerome, the town in the side of the mountain, on the register, where they used to mine copper
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And the last two are of me, one I took, and one I did not

[JeffR]

1. The kid in the sand is priceless.

Among others.

This trip has obviously inspired you. You've taken things to another level. And while I'm on that subject, take that advice about RAW very seriously. Once you start shooting RAW, you won't want to go back. A couple of these shots would have benefited from being shot in RAW. For one, it provides much greater control over dynamic range, and that's what's lacking in a few of these.

I don't know what sort of RAW conversion software your Sony came with, but try it, get comfortable with it, and you'll see how worthwhile this format is.

Now that my lecture's done, I say: Brava!

[Mira]

2. Grazie! I have no idea where to start looking - but when I post my first "raw"

photo, and have understood the concept, I will dedicate it to you.
:)

[MattSh]

3. RAW vs JPG reminds me of Mac vs. PC arguments...

While I will agree that there are some times when RAW is useful, it's certainly not universally agreed upon even among photographers. At least from what I've read.

Me? I use jpg 95% of the time.

http://photodoto.com/raw-vs-jpg-print-shootout/

[dbmk]

4. I can't see there being an argument as such?

It is not as if JPG delivers anything the RAW does not. Except speed of processing. And processing the RAWs to JPGs with the shot settings does not exactly take that long.

I would only ever shoot JPG if I really needed the pictures and had limited space. Or had to be able to deliver them directly from the cam. And then I would probably still shoot RAW+JPG.
Neither has happened so far.

On the other hand shooting RAW has saved a TON of shots, being able to recover highlights and shadow details that would never have made it into the ready-cooked JPG. And you never have to worry about white balance.

Now, if none of that stuff bothers you and postprocessing is too much of a hassle (which I can perfectly understand) - you certainly might as well shoot JPG.

But there should be little discussion about the fact that you can produce pictures with the RAW image file that you cannot get back to, once you have your JPG image file only.
But the opposite is not true.