It's All Darrell's Fault

So remember when I blamed Darrell for my delay in posting Europe photos because he had to edit all of them before I could post them? Well, I've since learned a little bit more about the truth behind the necessity of editing them, along with more than I really cared to know about photography. But since I now "have the knowledge", and since this is likely going to cause frequent delays in my ability to post photos, you are going to learn it too.

Here's the deal. Apparently when you take a picture, most cameras (or at least Darrell's fancy Nikon) save two file images--a standard jpeg image that the camera automatically does some retouching to, and something like a nef file that is a totally raw, untouched image. However, most basic photo software only recognizes the jpeg image, so that's all most users see. And for the most part, even though the jpeg images already have some automatic retouching done to them, it's still possible to use editing software to add more enhancements and stuff. But apparently, if you start with the raw image, there are way more edits and enhancements that you can do--with the right software, of course. Well, when we got our new laptop, Darrell made sure that it came equipped with said fancy software.

Now, Darrell could leave his camera in the "normal" mode and allow it to store the files as jpegs so that programs (such as blogger) will recognize them as photos, while still allowing him to upload the raw image and edit that as he wants. However, when he does this, the upload takes twice as long because, well, it's essentially uploading two copies of each picture. Plus it gets to be a nightmare in terms of locating and storing the images on the computer (especially when Darrell isn't the most organized to begin with). So, he has changed the settings on his camera to shoot in raw only.

The long and the short of it--Darrell's camera now takes pictures that until he edits them and re-saves them as jpeg files, I can't do anything them with them because they are not in a blogger (or anything) compatible format. So while I would love to sit here and tell you about how Darrell and I spent our weekend at the lake, I wouldn't be able to put any pictures with the post because Darrell doesn't have them edited yet. And really, it's no fun not to be able to share the pictures.

So if you start to notice that I'm regularly posting about things that happened two or three (or four or five) days previous, it's not my fault. Really. It's all Darrell's fault.