Simply the best explanation of the benefits of shooting in RAW.
A lot has changed in technology in the last few years since I took up photography – Lightroom 3 had just been released and it was a significant improvement on the previous version. Once I got my hands on a copy, and a book to learn how to use it, I immediately saw the benefit in shooting in RAW format.
A picture says a thousand words and the slideshow above is a great example – one image is a tiger cub playing at Melbourne zoo taken in 2010. Its really dark and hard to see any details and back when I tried to edit it, both my skills and the software weren’t quite up to the task. So I never bothered with working on these images.
Cue 2015 and Lightroom 6 is released. Plus I have had many more years experienced working with the software and have invested time proper…
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I don’t normally link to my blog on other people’s blogs, but in case anyone is interested, I show a few examples here:
http://dispersertracks.com/2013/01/05/the-raw-deal/
If you rather not have it here, I won’t mind if you just delete the comment.
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the more the merrier 🙂 (as long as it’s not junk lol. Wow there are A LOT of images on yours!
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I seldom do short posts . . .
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hehe……I enjoy reading them
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I find shooting in RAW formats gives me more flexibility during post processing. Though it is really quite big in terms of file size (about 20mb per photo). 🙂
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yes
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I only use RAW these days- great post by Stacey!
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Me too…yes it was, that’s why I reblogged
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