RAW format

[Guest world.hunters]

Alreet does anyone shoot in RAW format, and what is the benifits espeicaly with darker photos?????

 

 

cheers

 

w.h

[zek 0]

Yes I shoot RAW - about 8MB a shot, although the price of storage is coming down thankfully. If a picture is underexposed, the original data is still there and it's amazing how it can be pulled back. My reply's not very technical, but yes, I think RAW is the way to go.

 

Zek.

[Guest world.hunters]

ok sound

 

so if i take it out as its getting dark and photos came out dark i can still get a nice photo from them. when shooting in the the best quality jpeg most the photos that are edited in this way ie exposure brightness etc turn out shit.

 

 

cheers mate

 

W.H

[zek 0]

RAW doesn't work miracles - however, you are in with a better chance of success. Try it and see.

 

Zek.

[Guest Scuba1]

I shoot RAW but for a different reason then most of you, as I do most of my photography under water and there, there is a colour shift towards the blue spectrum and I like to do the white balance when I am out of the water and dry with a beer in front of me and not faffing about with little buttons in neoprene gloves. But that aside, darkness is to keep things simple just the lack of colour and that is where the problem is. The computer does not know what is on the picture thus does not know what colours are there to start with either. If you are looking for a " one click " answer to turn a dark picture into one with vibrant colours I´ll have to disapoint you but If you are willing to put some more work into a photo, then RAW is the better format to start of with, as you got exactly what was on the chip when it was taken and nothing has been " compressed " away from it, so when you start to play with sharpness and contrast, it will not look like the picture is made out of sugar cubes.

Before you ask, I use Adobe Photoshop CS2 with the plug ins for the different RAW formats depending on the camera used.

 

HTH

 

 

Michael