Pure enthusiast, although I still prefer amateur. Sometimes RAW, sometimes jpegs depending on the nature of the event or setting. I do enjoy fiddling with the image, but only for a limited number of them. If I get busy or distracted, the shots can lie fallow for some time.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I shoot RAW whether I'm shooting on assignment for a pub or just for my own > enjoyment -- with two exceptions. When I've had to do a few shots for the > Times at the auto show, I shot jpegs, because the turnaround time was right > now. When I shot virtual tours of apartments and houses, which consisted of > about 300 exposure and color-temp matched pics per location, I shot jpegs. > But even for a massive three day shoot that I now do every year at an event > called the Mopar Nationals, where I might shoot as many as 600 frames a day, > I shoot RAW. The extra bit of control yields a better finished product, which > makes my work more valuable to the customer. > Paul > On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> The green mode discussion caused me to appreciate two different modes >> photographers can work in. When you press the shutter, are you looking for >> the file produced to be a final product in and of itself, or are you >> thinking of the entire workflow, and treating the RAW file as merely one >> stage in producing the final product? >> >> The people that I expect wanting the final product from a shutter press >> would be: >> >> Snapshooters are the obvious ones. They don't care about the process, they >> often just want a recognizable photograph of important moments. I've heard >> people wax eloquent about their NEX because they don't need to know anything >> about photography to get pretty good photos, they just aim the camera, it >> figures out where the faces are, focuses on the faces, does it's digital >> magic and gets better photos than they ever could. >> >> Professionals on assignment are another obvious group wanting finished >> photos to spring from their camera like Athena from Zeus's head. The more >> time they spend diddling with photos, the less money they make. They aren't >> necessarily looking for the best possible photo, they're usually looking for >> a photo that is good enough in as little time as possible. >> >> I expect that the people who look at the raw file as the equivalent of a >> negative, rather than a final product would be people who want the best >> possible photo, or folks who are trying for some artistic vision that can't >> be achieved inside the camera. >> >> Realistically, the above descriptions aren't really of different people, but >> of different immediate goals. If I just need a photograph of where I plan >> to mount an attic fan to show my contractor, I don't need sufficient >> photographic quality to make a 20x30 print to hang in a gallery. I just >> need to convey the critical information. If I'm shooting an event, and >> could trust my camera to get everything to JPEG in sufficient quality to >> post to the web or make prints without using lightroom, I could probably >> shoot directly in JPEG. If I need to go through lightroom anyways, then >> JPEG doesn't really save me anything over RAW. The percussionist the other >> night was commenting that when photographing for customers to post on the >> web, he'd just set his camera to 6MP JPEG, and appreciated the much smaller >> filesize. In the same vein, every so often almost everyone finds something >> that they want to take the best photo that they can of, and will use every >> tool at their disposal. >> >> One of the things that I need to learn is to recognize what my goals of the >> moment are, and how to best fulfill them. I've been working on projects on >> the house lately, and have to keep reminding myself that when I'm doing >> construction carpentry, I don't need to work to machinist tolerances. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
