I used to have chinchillas. The only place fur belongs is on critters.

And my dad had a mink that ate every cantaloupe in his garden one year.

He would get something he shouldn't have and I'd reach for it only to have him shuffle the object between his hands to keep it from me. He would actually hold the object in his out stretched arm, as far away from me as possible, while grasping my finger with his other hand. When I went for the other hand he would shift the object again. He was a hoot. Sadly, he died from a genetic disease.

My females didn't carry the bad gene and they survived.

I didn't know that either.

I had to leave my chins in Germany. They went to a truly nice couple. They send me photos from time to time.

but I caught a mink in my chicken house once and he had killed 28 of my young birds... I was devastated and didn't think he was so cute that night... they are vicious killers! (one bite to the neck, killing as many as they can to return to feed on later)

It seems it's been overcast here forever. A few blotches of sun but not when I can get out.

you can adjust the settings afterward the fact.

Natural light

and the light sensor misreads the shot or your exposure settings were inadvertently incorrect (which I have done on occasion and been able to salvage an otherwise good shot) I don't see where going into the RAW file and changing the exposure settings is a big deal. On the other hand you can always bracket the pictures incrementally using your exposure mode on the camera when taking the picture but that is basically what you would also be doing if you changed the exposure settings in RAW format post-picture taking. That is one of the advantages to digital photography vs. film photography.

on the fur. That kind of thing. It can make it harder to get a good shot but it is that little extra. I do have my camera set to shoot just a tad underexposed.
I still need to learn a lot about shooting in raw.
Thanks.

you will get better color saturation when you underexpose the shot but there is a price to pay. From what I have read about digital it is more like shooting with slide films.

Your camera should have come with software for RAW images. WIth my Cannon software that came with the camera I can change the temperature, tint, exposure, recovery, fill light, blacks, brightness contrast, clarity, vibrance and saturation. I think this is standard fare for the RAW converters. My suggestion is to open up a RAW image and play with it. When you get the corrections done the way you want it save the image as a JPEG. The RAW image will not change.

I also have a full version of Photoshop. One of these days I will master it but I am not holding my breath on that one.

On edit: I really like the second photograph of the mink!

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I use a small and easy to use program called IrfanView

It's free, very user friendly and QUICK!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView


http://www.irfanview.com/

finish it in Gimp...free also.