Bleeding Heart

Two versions of the same photograph, both Straight Out of the Camera (SOOC).

For the past few weeks I've had my Olympus set up to shoot RAW+JPG. The JPG version's been getting further in-camera processing; it's square, and it's turned to what the software calls "Gentle Sepia." The result's been that I get two very different versions of every photo I take. Thought I'd share a pair, today.

This camera setup actually means I'm shooting the sepia version, as that's what the viewfinder shows me; essentially the RAW photo is an incidental byproduct. Which version I post, it turns out, has been unpredictable--which might be the point of taking two pix with each shutter click.

I'm not really an SOOC shooter, by the way. Almost always my photographs get tweaked ("photoshopped"), though it's unusual for me to do fancy processing. I'll likely talk a bit about that tomorrow.