julian.gang

My question is with JPEG photography it is more about your photographic skills. With RAW photos is it more about your technical skills on the computer?...Julian

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Deja vu all over again

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Julian, Don't understand the question

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

Please delete instantly.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Not really. The difference is that RAW gives you more options and more latitude in editing. It is just that if you don't get to see it right away.
The JPEG being instant out of the camera shows you before you go into PP apps and look at the RAW. If you forgot - all cameras take pictures in some form of RAW but if set to JPEG it gets converted by the tiny processor in the camera before storing on the memory card and shown on the rear screen.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

RAW allows X abilities in editing, JPEG allows Y abilities in editing,
where X>Y.
If you use a JPEG editor, it's your technical skill that make it look good (better),
or not. Whether you do it (edit) or the camera does it (you selected pre-sets).

Photographic abilities is things like composition, lighting, exposure, etc..

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

No. Use jpeg is you don't have the time or interest in post processing your images. Use raw if you do. For post processing, raw gives you a far greater range of adjustments with less noise.

Many here have no interest in post processing for various reasons and shoot only jpeg. If that is their preference sobeit. It has little to do with how serious you are about your photography skills. I can assure you that I and most of the professional and advanced amateur photographers I know are very serious about getting the best images we can straight out of the camera in raw and then process them to take these images to the next level.

Serious film photography was about photographic skills and darkroom skills to get the best from negatives. Serious digital photography is about photographic skills and imaging software skills to get the best from raw files. It's true that lousy images can often be improved in post. but more importantly excellent images can also be improved significantly. It's your choice. For those who decide to post process their images, shooting raw will almost always give better results than shooting jpeg.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Does it really matter what format you capture your image files if your camera still has a mirror?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Well, get over it

My 35 years in the classroom, how many times do you think I heard the same questions over and over? And some years I taught 5 or 6 periods of the same subject at the same grade level. And then there were the kids who were absent and when they returned had the same questions.

Q "Mister, where is the Pacific Ocean?" A "Straight west of our school about 12-14 miles away. Get your parents to take you west on Interstate 10 until you see the beach - that is the Pacific." I taught in East Los Angeles most of my career.

BebuLamar

It's whatever you think.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

After 40 posts and their recent string of RAW vs JPEG, we'd think he'd move onto something new like whether Ansel Adams used UV filters ...

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Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

And if, over that 35 years in the classroom, it was one particular student who asked the same question over and over, semester after semester, year after year, would you still recommend you (or anybody) simply 'get over it'?

Or would you recommend that aging student find some other field of inquiry?

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

A jpeg is a RAW file processed by the camera. So the camera is making the editing decisions for you whereas a RAW file can be processed (edited) on a computer with the editor (you) making the decisions

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

This is likely to go to 40 pages.

Very simply, it is far easier to make adjustments to a raw file than to a jpeg. You need more knowledge and skill to edit jpegs. On the other hand if you are ok with digital Polaroids, then there is no need to shoot and edit raw. On yet another hand, it is far easier to adjust raw file to suit the individual image, than it is look at your camera picture settings and customize them on a shot by shot basis. The beginners I teach find it MUCH easier to edit raw, btw. They are completely intimidated by the 10,000 commands and processes in Photoshop.

If you want to take your images beyond what a camera can do with its limited adjustments, then raw presents a good and easy way to do this. Most of those who complain about raw have never really done raw editing.

Either way, neither is a replacement for creating great images - you need the skills regardless.