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Or Shoot in Raw and see what what you can do to a photo when you open it in Camera Raw.
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Never do it. More trouble than it's worth. Talk to anyone doing bulk or time pressured work and they will all tell you the same: they just don't have time to mess around with it. When shooting a sport event, say a rugby match I can take upwards of 500 shots in 2 hours. If I had to manually process every single one like that I would never do anything else. It came up in conversation with the local paper photographer a few months ago as well. She's been pro, working for newspapers, for 25 plus years, so has used digital kit ever since it became a viable option. She has never ever taken a shot in RAW mainly because if she had to mess around like that she would miss her deadlines. Her advice was to get the shot right first time and you won't need to do anything else with it beyond occasionally adjusting the levels if you have time.
RAW won't make a bad shot good and if you've taken a good shot then it doesn't need messing with.
I've played with it for fun, usually with studio shots, and I don't see the point. If you have a good camera, set up correctly, and more importantly a good lens you don't need RAW.
RAW files are uncompressed, JPG files are compressed and processed by the camera. I agree that in certain situations, with certain shots RAW would be the way to go but not by any means all the time. The two example I gave in my previous post are both ones where shooting in RAW is not an option.
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So we have two questions for any budding photographer, Are you better at using photoshop or taking photos with the camera and secondly when buying a new camera why have people become so obsessed with it`s Megapixels capability, if you are only going to shoot in JPEG as most do then they are never going to use the best of the cameras sophisticated capabilities.
So we have two questions for any budding photographer, Are you better at using photoshop or taking photos with the camera and secondly when buying a new camera why have people become so obsessed with it`s Megapixels capability, if you are only going to shoot in JPEG as most do then they are never going to use the best of the cameras sophisticated capabilities.
I think I might have missed answering your question in my last post.
My advice to any budding photographer would be to forget about any having any software package be it CameraRAW, Photoshop or anything else. Learn how to use your camera properly in full manual mode first. When you understand how it works and can take pictures properly, then you can start thinking about learning how to manipulate them.
The obsession with software doesn't make better photographers. It makes lazy photographers.
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plus using such software I am convinced will only help you learn more about your camera and your picture taking techniques.
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Or with the current low price of memory cards, you could shoot both, but only if you are setup to handle RAW.
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but I also used 120 roll film in the days before digital, unless I was shooting action, which was done on 35mm.
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I have a colour monkey which calibrates monitor and printer, but guess this is getting past many on this thread....
I have a colour monkey which calibrates monitor and printer, but guess this is getting past many on this thread....
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Well worth buying if you like your photography, most people think well I just bought the latest laptop or screen so it doesn`t need calibrating, how wrong they are.
My advice to any budding photographer would be to forget about any having any software package be it CameraRAW, Photoshop or anything else. Learn how to use your camera properly in full manual mode first. When you understand how it works and can take pictures properly, then you can start thinking about learning how to manipulate them.
The obsession with software doesn't make better photographers. It makes lazy photographers.
Whilst I agree that most people have a tendency to over process photos in software these days, some sort of software is necessary to duplicate the tweaking that would be done in the dark room in the days of film
I can seldom be bothered to process any of my pics, and folk get them effectively straight out the camera, but, if there is a shot I love, that is just a little bit off, I will crop/tweak levels etc
Oh and can I just mention how tired I am of seeing HDR used in far too many photos.
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