Why Shooting Raw Matters
Rich Harrington
I just wrapped up teaching several workshops at Photoshop World. I led a night sky timelapse workshop. Shooting raw was absolutely essential to getting great
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Richard Harrington is the CEO of ThinkTAP and the Publisher of Photofocus. He is also the founder of RHED Pixel, a visual communications company based in Washington, D.C.
Rich has published over 100 courses on Lynda.com. Rich has authored several books including From Still to Motion, Understanding Photoshop, Professional Web Video, and Creating DSLR Video.
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Raw. I don’t trust myself to get it right in JPEG!! I need the security blanket of being able to fix things.
I’ve usually been shooting RAW & JPEG, but I bought two new cameras and recently switched to only shooting RAW.
I don’t use jpg for the same reason as I never had a polaroid camera! I like to do the thinking about how the photo is processed.
Mostly raw. Some times jpeg but not much.
After better understanding what Lightroom can do, I shoot RAW. For awhile I was shooting RAW + JPG. After a month or two I realized the JPGs were just taking up disk space.
Amateur question… but how do I know what I shoot? I mean I shoot in manual setting, but how do I know about raw or JPEG?
Look at your camera’s menu to see what recording format you are using.