This week, we want to know — which format do you capture photographs in?
Bryan Esler
Associate Editor at Photofocus
Bryan is a photographer specializing in capturing events, theatre, food/drink and corporate moments. Based in Grand Rapids, Mich., he has worked with clients such as CNBC, Michigan State University, ArtPrize, Steelcase, SpartanNash and more. His work has also been featured by Delta Airlines, NBC, Microsoft, LiveStrong and Pure Michigan. Learn more about Bryan at bryanesler.com.
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Jared Ribic says
May 26, 2019 at 2:13 pmI 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.
Bob Panick says
May 26, 2019 at 11:00 pmYou 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 I’ll be sharing images from the camera, I’l shoot RAW to one slot and JPEG at low resolution to the other. When I want to share, I just connect with my phone and I have images to share. Using a low resolution shortens the transfer time considerably.