Don’t ask a digital photographer to see the pictures on his LCD screen…

The picture shown here is an unedited straight out of the camera shot.  The next post will show the final product.  Most pro photographers shoot in a format called RAW and this is essentially a digital negative.  Until it is developed (using programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom), it can look almost nothing like the final product.  The camera produces a preview using its best guest but this is mainly only useful to check compositional elements and focus.  So don’t ask to see the pictures on a photographers LCD screen because it is like asking a chef to give you a taste of his raw pork before he makes a pork roast.