Re: Should a newbie start shooting RAW?

On May 30, 10:15 pm, Shawn Hirn <s...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <300520072227186584%...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Randall Ainsworth <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





In article <daWdnRixlbGgVcDbnZ2dnUVZ8takn...@xxxxxx>, STEVE
<S...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would'nt bother with RAW if you are just getting into it. I know about 4
people that always go on about the benefits of RAW and to be honest with
you they spend all their time fiddling about with an image, without
actually ever getting an image that they are satisfied with. Add to that
all of them are techno freaks and seem to get more of a buzz getting to
know
the ins and outs of the camera and the computer that they attach it to.
This is not to say that a really good photpgrapher might not be able to
churn out some pretty good shots after having used RAW.

When I made the switch from film, I immediately started with RAW. But
30+ years of doing photography (about half professionally) had already
equipped me with the necessary knowledge.
As for fiddling at the computer, I just open the image in PhotoShop,
bring up the shadow level, maybe tweak exposure slightly, sharpen...and
that's it. It just takes a minute or two.

If all you do is make such modest adjustments, I don't see how raw
benefits you at all.

Try turning down the exposure 1/3 stop with a jpeg image, very easy
using raw but not so easy with a jpeg image. Or try adjusting the
color temp from 4700K to 5100K, again very easy in raw not so much in
jpeg.

Or let's say I want just a bit of noise reduction on shoot taken at
ISO 800 and a bit more for shots taken at ISO 1600 but none for shots
at ISO 400 and below, I can set up the raw converter to automatically
do this for me. I don't have to set the noise reduction for each
image one at a time, I can tell the converter how much I want for each
range of ISO.

Scott


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