Cryppy Loc: Gouldsboro, ME

I live near Ellsworth Maine and looking for somebody willing to tutor me in shooting RAW and processing same in Lightroom. I suspect all I need is a couple hours.

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Start now with with youtube videos, almost as good as a tutor and do it at your pace. Try Morganti

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

Try "John Greengo" on U-tube

Rongnongno Loc: FL

For raw Processing, LR is a decent proposal . For raw exposure, you may want to dig onto other sources than video tutorial as it cannot be shown.

You might want to contact Bob and Dave. These two are really good at what they are doing and also good at explaining.

The reason to use PM is to allow you to avoid the confusing insane garbage your question is going to generate over time.

Cryppy Loc: Gouldsboro, ME

Many thanks. I'll contact (via PM) the individuals you mentioned. For precisely the reason you site, I did have a BIT of hesitation before posting my request for RAW help, but in the end I decided to take the plunge. Thanks again.

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Look, watch a video or two first and then see if you need extra help. Some of them are very good. Your choice and pocket book and not be at the mercy of the teacher.

Photocraig

Since training instructors are a matter of taste, and I like both Anthony Morganti and Julliette Koss. I think Tim Gray is the best--for ME! All are good for Lightroom. I think RAW gets a mystique that it doesn't deserve. RAW is really the straight out of camera capture we used to get on film. It is like a digital negative. Toy have the tools to expose properly, compensate, bracket and deliberately under and over expose with the facilities in the most basic DSLR. The metering choices are worth learning, especially the Spot and where to point it. All of these techniques and much more are available on You Tube, Adorama Learning Center, B&H Event Space. And, of course at Adult education and Community Colleges.

In addition the many You Tube "Celebrities" all have books and courses. The Tony and Chelsea Northrop Stunning Digital Photography in e-book form is very reasonable and in quite undrstandable with extensive video content. They also have Post Processing courses.Tony was a tech writer at Microsoft and plies that trade well.

If there are no Hoggers available for a Maine based tutorial, don't despair. Keep shooting and learning.

Jrhoffman75 Loc: Conway, New Hampshire

Photocraig is right on target. If you are using any of the standard photo processing software tools available today (Lightroom Apple Photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements, etc.) shooting in RAW will appear no different than shooting in JPEG. All of those programs will open the RAW files and the adjustment tools are all the same.

My wife is a non-tech beginner and initially her camera was set to JPEG. I changed the setting to RAW, never told her, and all she noticed was a comment to me that recently some of the images that were too dark or bright she can now adjust better.

katbandit Loc: new york city

Raw is just more info on your photos than a jpeg..it gives you more options on editing your photos..personally i don't understand why people are so afraid to at least try to shoot in Raw..if you don't feel comfortable with it then just go back to shooting jpeg...

Pentaxian61

Raw has so much more detail and information in your photos that you can capture than in jpeg
disadvantage you have to process them because they are mostly flat and lack punch out of the camera
watch this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1BGchuEL6M

Mundj Loc: Richmond TX

Suggest you check with Gene51. He provides online tutoring and seems to be very flexible. I have been communicating with him for needed help. Send him a PM.

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

Creative live has an excellent very comprehensive tutorial adobe lightroom cc the complete guide. The price varies and it is often on sale... You buy it and can use it for life as often as you need. There are also many free short tutorials on youtube look for serge ramelli who has a very interesting technique for really making dull low contrast images pop. and also Lynda.com and kelbyone have lots of video tutorials and you can sign up for a month or get a free trial and listen/watch as many as you have time for...

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Sekonic meters and X-Rite both have excellent tutorials on exposure and how to calibrate your system for predictable results.

APSICON

Your camera can bet set to automatically shoot RAW. I set mine to shoot both RAW and JPG simultaneously.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Don't need training to shoot in RAW. Just learn how to process what you've shot and remember that RAW doesn't use any in-camera photo profiles. You can apply these later in PP if you want to. For example, I shoot both RAW and JPEG in my D7000. Plus I have made menu changes to tweak the camera to produce a bit more contrast and intensity in my pics. These changes show up in the JPEGs but not the RAWs so you use PP to bring them out, plus there are other benefits to RAW that are too numerous to mention here.