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Now to contradict myself and everyone else. Your camera will have many clever modes in it. Particularly colour balance. That will adjust an image for the ambient light.
That can save you a lot of time in editing if you are not a professional. The cameras are getting really good with their software.
Learning to edit photos from RAW requires some time and experience.
Camera companies are spending a massive effort developing software that will do what you will do in the editor. So don't go through life using raw only when the camera can relieve a lot of the work.
RAW saves every detail you captured but the camera software can produce some excellent results with no effort.
The argument whether to shoot Raw or Jpg rages often on some of the professional forums I am a member of. Then the RAW shooters then argue over what Raw converter to use
One of the least understood aspects of shooting Raw is that if you are shooting a lot it is actually faster to post shoot edit. In an average working week I will shoot in excess of 1000 images. Using Adobe's Bridge I can do global changes to as many photographs as I select. This might include sharpening, cropping, exposure etc etc.
It is true that you can batch process jpgs in Bridge but the difference is that with Raw you can go back and change them over and over again and start from the origonal image if you want.
For the amateur shooting the occasional photograph RAW might not be the way to go
I will shoot in excess of 1000 images. Using Adobe's Bridge I can do global changes to as many photographs as I select. This might include sharpening, cropping, exposure etc etc.
Why would you want to batch change exposure? Are all your shots either all uniformly under or over exposed?
Too many people depend too much on getting the image right using software AFTERWARDS. Get it right at the time and so cut down on your post production time.
As I said, my wife is a pro and shoots on a 1D MKIV. She hardly ever does anything to the images afterwards because she gets it right at the time of the shot.
Exposure, colour balance, framing. There is no reason why these elements cannot be correct before you press the shutter.
I will shoot in excess of 1000 images. Using Adobe's Bridge I can do global changes to as many photographs as I select. This might include sharpening, cropping, exposure etc etc.
Why would you want to batch change exposure? Are all your shots either all uniformly under or over exposed?
Too many people depend too much on getting the image right using software AFTERWARDS. Get it right at the time and so cut down on your post production time.
As I said, my wife is a pro and shoots on a 1D MKIV. She hardly ever does anything to the images afterwards because she gets it right at the time of the shot.
Exposure, colour balance, framing. There is no reason why these elements cannot be correct before you press the shutter.
Good for her Richard but it depends on what you are shooting......
Good for her Richard but it depends on what you are shooting......
When would you want to depend on post production rather than getting it 99% right in-camera?
I have shot many panoramics in my time. There is a lot of post in these images but the individual images need to be right to start with.
When you are working fast Richard. In the thirty years I have been a pro I have changed the type of photography I have a number of times. In press work its getting a pic sometimes rather than the quality. When I was shooting commercially for blue chip companies like Harrods and using a 5x4 inch Sinar P2 camera and on transparency the work was all done in camera. With portraits and weddings its happening in front of you and you shoot as accurately as possible and then use PP to make perfect.
If you and your wife are shooting landscapes I can assure you that if you are not PP then you are missing something but then the over riding rule of photography is that you choose how you want the final image to look, not as someone else tells you it should look. Personally I love photoshop and I have been using it now for between ten and fifteen years and to me its more important than the camera
New to the site but thought i would check the photography section as a keen amature i always find this topic makes me giggle
I always shoot in Raw nay Jpeg or both the truth is this if you have the time to spend in front of a PC/Mac editing, then shoot raw if not then spend a little more time and get it right in camera.
I spend hours doing fancy work with images and raw is a great way to start.
just to clarify a point raw is not an image it is a file of all the information recorded you will find that they cannot in the main be printed from a memory card at a supermarket
So try raw if you have time to burn or don't like the standard image settings that the camera gives you
sensible to go with both until you get used to what can be achieved in raw
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