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Shooting Raw? |
Hi, i work as a subcontractor wedding photographer and a new company i will work for has asked i shoot in raw formatt. I have always shot large fine (jpg) before. I have already ordered some more CF cards. Is there anything else i need to know about raw? thanks I would suggest you NOT shoot in RAW+JPEG, if you do not need to. There is no use wasting space, and dooping your clients is never a good idea, especially if they ask specifically for RAW. If your clients need RAW, shoot in RAW. RAW is tricky because there is no in-camera processing like what is done with JPEGfine. So you will, at the very least, need a RAW editing plug-in for your photoshop 7, or and I would highly recommend a program like photoshop lightroom that has a built in RAW procession engine with non-destructive editing capability and workflow. Other than that, know that you will have to do post processing to the images, things like white balance, hue and saturation color corrections, contrast, and sharpening. To tell you the truth, even though you've never shot in RAW before, now that you have to, you'll probably never go back to JPEGfine and shoot in RAW all the time. And I say why not? If all you have to sacrifice is a little time in photoshop and extra space in a CF card, you'll love the advanced editing capability you'll have and the large file size will be more apealing to some larger future clients. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Photoshop lightroom is an excellent program and though it does not have advanced editing capability, you can correct for virtually all color and tonal characteristics, crop and it even has a clone and heal tool not to mention it can help with workflow, which when you've got a couple of thousand files on your hard drive, can come in handy. It costs $199, so if you can afford it, I recommend you maybe look into it. Source(s): http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopl... Just that programs like the free Adobe Photo Downloader won't recognize the format, so you'll have to either use the manufacturer's software, or a not-free version of photoshop to get them off the camera. raw images take up a lot more room in storage. i would only shoot in raw if i could. camera raw is a great tool and im hoping cs3 has more camera raw type options for jpegs. we use cs2 and the camera software to down load...and i think my wife uses bridge to download...get lots of cards raw is a huge file and takes up tons of space...none of the programs were free except the camera hardware and it came with the camera so it really wasnt free. it is a big file but you can do so much with it. i think you'll like it. Unless you are in the practice of giving your clients the digital files, Assure them that you are using RAW and just shoot .jpg. Most people see a word like RAW in a magazine or something and thinks it is a huge improvement. Or, If you have plenty of memory, (you should, as it is cheap) shoot the RAW+jpg mode and you can fool around with white balance and other RAW components if you have time. To get the full benifites of RAW you need a good capture application and as PS7 doesn't have any plug-ins for RAW look to get a stand alone for no less than $150. The reason for this is that if you instantly convert your RAW to jpg automaticly, there is NO GAIN to shooting it. this is what your camera does the instant you shoot. Raw takes the image directly off the sensor and records it onto the card. Jpg is a compressed image format. That means the second the camera is recorded off the sensor, it's converted and compressed. It can be argued that this "re-saving" of the image results in quality loss. Subsequent re-saving of the image, after cropping, editing, and retouching again alters the image. Raw formats allow the original digital negative to be referenced. Programs such as Aperture and Lightroom allow the original image to be copied and not destroyed (yes you could always edit a copy, but it's still not the original, though not recompressed). Take a few shots with raw and make sure you can import them into Photoshop. If you cannot, just download the new version of Camera Raw from Adobe. They have collaborated with Nikon and now support all the current cameras that Nikon makes. Not sure about the specific options on the 20D. Check the manual. I try to answer most of these questions as simple as possible. You can go into more depth by reading up on the specifics. |
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