The RAW Processing Step I Kept Skipping (And Why I Finally Stopped)

The RAW Processing Step I Kept Skipping (And Why I Finally Stopped)

I shoot a lot in low light. Golden hour bleeds into blue hour fast when you’re out in the field, and if you want the shot, you push the ISO. Lately I’ve been going back through a batch of Tennessee valley fog shots from earlier this year, and the noise in some of those files was doing real damage to the atmosphere I was trying to preserve. I was masking, reducing luminance noise, pulling back detail sliders, and the files still felt like they were fighting me.