Okay - so I upload my raw files into lightroom directly from my camera. However, it always converts my adjusted exposure and white balance from what I have set in camera.
Is there a way to prevent that and upload as I shot it in camera?
I know - you'd think I'd know this . . . but I don't.
Unless they've changed something, Lightroom ignores camera settings on RAW files and uses Adobe defaults worked out by the lightroom team. If you have settings you regularly use, you can save them *in lightroom* as presets and apply the preset as soon as you open an image.
In general, if you want to keep the camera settings as picture settings, JPG is your optimum format, not RAW.
I'm thinking your only RAW+JPEG mode is RAW+Basic, and you want both a high-quality JPEG and a super-modifiable RAW. Do the conversion to JPEG in-camera (go to color correction and don't move the little cursor, but just hit okay) and it should give you a "Fine"-quality JPEG with the original settings if all you need is a JPEG copy of your RAW file.
If you just want the original color settings, process your RAW as-is, then paste the JPEG as the top layer in Photoshop and set it to Color... it should change the colors in your processed image to those in the original.
Darn - I was worried that was the case. I googled and googled and couldn't find anything on it. It's too bad they don't have a box to 'check' and turn off lightroom adjustments. I wonder if LR3 has that capability (wishful thinking).
I'm thinking your only RAW+JPEG mode is RAW+Basic, and you want both a high-quality JPEG and a super-modifiable RAW. Do the conversion to JPEG in-camera (go to color correction and don't move the little cursor, but just hit okay) and it should give you a "Fine"-quality JPEG with the original settings if all you need is a JPEG copy of your RAW file.
If you just want the original color settings, process your RAW as-is, then paste the JPEG as the top layer in Photoshop and set it to Color... it should change the colors in your processed image to those in the original.
D300 can shoot Raw+Fine jpeg.
I believe you can use the Nikon conversion software to get your jpegs and raw files the same, although I have not tried it.
Darn - I was worried that was the case. I googled and googled and couldn't find anything on it. It's too bad they don't have a box to 'check' and turn off lightroom adjustments. I wonder if LR3 has that capability (wishful thinking).
It does but not the way you described.
In the Apply During Import section in the import window you have a setting for Develop Settings. Pick None. Your files should stay as they are. I'm using LR3. Same thing for LR2.
All third-part RAW development tools are blissfully unaware of the specific camera profiles, because the manufacturers keep these settings proprietary. Why? I don't really know, it doesn't make good business sense to me. Well, at least in Nikon's case, they may be trying to get folks to use Nikon Capture, which is actually a pretty good program. Canon on the other hand has only DPP, which is very basic. Neither of these programs are used by a large number of professionals.
All that said, there *are* things that you can do to make Lr quit with the automatic adjustments. In the Develop Module, above the Temp and Tint sliders you can click on the type of WB adjustment applied and choose "as shot." Then under Tone (above the Exposure slider) also select "as shot." Now you can also make any other changes to develop settings that you'd also like to make by default, such as sharpening, NR, etc. Finally, you save these settings as the default settings. This procedure varies a bit based on which Lr version you are running. You can save the defaults to be specific to a camera, even to a specific camera serial number. You can even save them specific to an ISO setting, at least this is true for Lr 3.0.
Taking the "make it like the JPEG" idea one step further, there are both Canon and Nikon profiles available for Lr. Presets based on these profiles can be created, and you can therefore change to any of your "in-camera" looks any time you want, in post! You could, in theory, even use Nikon presets for a Canon camera, or vice versa. Take a look here for more information.
