Shooting in jpg's is like shooting film, developing at a one hour kiosk, and throwing the negatives away.
Hi JoeM, why not shoot in both JPEG and RAW, use your JPEGS at first and experiment with RAW until you understand it. Also follow the advice other member give you.
Cheers
John
If you just compare the size of a jpg file to a raw file, you get a pretty good idea of the difference.
But if you can nail every exposure on the money in camera, shoot jpg's, if however, sometimes the highlights are too much or the shadows too little shoot Raw.
Processing RAW in Lightroom or Photoshop is completely nondestructive. You can put it back to the way it came out of the camera with just one click "Restore Camera Raw Defaults". I think the best advantage of RAW is its dynamic range. You can knock down overexposed areas and bring up shadows easily. As others have said, You do the initial adjustments in RAW (takes about 10 sec.) then save it as a jpg or open image in Photoshop for more adjustments and saving in any format you want. Copy the jpg files to a thumb drive and print them at Wal-Mart if you want to. Like I said, no matter what you do to the RAW file, you can always go back to where you started with just one click. A RAW file is like a box of clay with which you can make anything you want, over, and over again.
One more thing. In digital photography, there is NO PICTURE. Your camera simply stores a foot thick book of 0s and 1s that tell your computer or printer or projector what to put in each pixel. When you shoot RAW you get the full edition with every possible combination of 0s and 1s. Jpgs are the abridged, paperback version using a much smaller set of instructions for your computer or printer or projector.
Hi Roland, that was a very good response, you can affect the time spent processing RAW down to a very short time once you have learnt how to do it.
I check 5 processes, Exposure,Lighting,Shadows,Clarity and Sharpness. I do not always change all of them unless it's needed, but I always increase clarity and sharpness by a minimum amount. This can take upto a minute or so before going on to editing.
Cheers
John
Why the "vs"? You can shoot in both at the same time. Just carry a lot of cards. I sometimes like to have the jpeg's so I can send them out quickly.
Is there a recommended book/video that will teach us how to shoot and process RAW? Thanks for any suggestions.
heyrob wrote:
Well thanks for the compliment, but I can't lay claim to that title. You see, I can't really tell what flavor the ice cream is by sitting on it. :lol:
WHAAAAAT????
No taste buds in your Sphincter. Makes it difficult to taste what flavor lube they used for your colonoscopy, I bet. :lol:
alandg46 wrote:
Shooting in jpg's is like shooting film, developing at a one hour kiosk, and throwing the negatives away.
So let me see if I understand you. You edit jpgs and then throw the original jpeg away....?
Why don't you save the new edited jpeg with another name and still keep the old jpeg as your negative?
I don't get it?
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