I'm with Ken. I shoot RAW exclusively, even when I don't "need" to. I
want the most dynamic range possible plus the flexibility. Lightroom and
or Photoshop are always part of my workflow.
I have programmed the K20D's RAW button to stay in RAW because I've
accidentally bumped it in the past and ruined a few otherwise good shots.
Life is short; keepers are rare; disk space is cheap.
-bmw
On 11-04-20 12:01 AM, Ken Waller wrote:
Coming from an almost exclusive slide background, my goal is to
produce the best image possible in-camera - I shoot RAW to take
advantage of any technology that will improve on that idea.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What do you use your camera to produce?
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.
The professional Outdoor Photographers that I know definitely don't
fit into that category - the spend a tremendous amount of time getting
everything just right before they even push the shutter release.
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
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