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04/18/2006 01:42:28 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by PleasantDreams:
As I am new here and also New to Photograpy. Can I get some advice on the advantages and Disadvantages of Shooting in RAW.
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when shooting in RAW you get these advantages..
1. a LOT more information in each file.
2. the possibility to correct exposure, whitebalance, lens distortion and much more before converting to jpeg or tiff.
3. the possibility to save the file as 16 bit image, most cameras only use 8 bit jpeg but 16 bit RAW.
4. the possibility to save one image with different exposure settings and merge in photoshop to get a perfectly exposed image.
the disadvantages..
1. FILESIZE ! that's it ;)
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04/18/2006 01:50:35 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by DanSig:
the disadvantages..
1. FILESIZE ! that's it ;) |
Well, not quite ALL.
You forget adding more time to the work flow and slower write times for the camera.
But, yeah, RAW rocks.
Message edited by author 2006-04-18 13:50:52.
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04/18/2006 01:55:34 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Well, not quite ALL.
You forget adding more time to the work flow and slower write times for the camera.
But, yeah, RAW rocks. |
when on a paid job more time isn't bad, not if you charge by the hour ;)
and RAW doesn't affect write speed that much, the buffer on the 5D only filles up after 16 RAW images in burst mode... I´ve never shot that many in burst, usually only 2-4 images in each burst ;)
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04/18/2006 01:58:55 PM · #29 |
Thank you for the input and sharing Knowledge. I am going to love being a member of dpchallenge.
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04/18/2006 04:47:59 PM · #30 |
I used to keep about 75% of my photos. After going through my old photos and deleting a bunch that should have never been kept I have a very percise method for filtering through my photos. I do it in several passes as follows:
1) first I go through remove any over/under exposed photos and any blury photos
2) then I pass through and remove photos that I have similar shots but maybe I don't like somones expression, or the position of something in the background and would rather use another similar but better shot
3) I then go through and crop the photos and do very minor colour changes
4) Then I go through all the crops and view at 100% and check very close detail and remove anything I don't like for any reason. This offten only leaves me about 1 or 2 photos per scene and losing about 10% of the scenes taken in the session
5) I then go through and do final editing, but there is no more deletion after step 4, even if I don't use the image I keep them.
Typicly I take a lot of photos. My average outing will have about 200 to 250 photos for a challenge. This is a lot of exposure bracketing of the same photo, a lot of crapy photos, but I just get what I can. The time to be picky is not when your in the field but when you at the desk. I have found I am suprised how offten I get great photos when I did not think they would be that good at the time. Anyways of the 200 to 250 photos I take I will keep about 20 to 25. Sometimes it will be as low as keeping 5 or 10. But I find the times when I only get 5 or 10 photos those are really good photos.
hope this helps....we all have diffrent methods that is just mine
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