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Question of the Week: What format do you capture photographs in?
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Bryan is a photographer specializing in capturing corporate events, food/drink and advertising imagery. Based in Grand Rapids, MI, he has worked with clients such as CNBC, Michigan State University, ArtPrize, Steelcase, Grand Rapids Magazine and more. His work has also been featured by Delta Airlines, NBC, Microsoft, LiveStrong and Pure Michigan.
I always shoot raw+JPEG(medium) unless I’m shooting a timelapse, in which case I’m shooting JPEG only because I’m coming home with thousands of images (which will mainly be batch-processed) and I don’t want to deal with the overhead of raw in that instance.
For everything else, I absolutely shoot raw + medium sized JPEG. Been doing that for years and it works well.
You need one more category, which ever one makes sense for what I’m shooting :) For instance, if I’m shooting sports in nice light, I may shoot them in JPEG simply to save processing time. I don’t have to worry about recovering shadows. But for games indoors or under the lights outside, I shoot RAW to recover shadows a bit better. Most of the time I shoot RAW, but there are times like with the Olympus Art filters where you have to shoot JPG to get the effect. In those cases I usually shoot RAW + JPEG. If I know… Read more »