newbie to RAW. help?

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I have shyed away from taking photos in raw until Thursday night! I was taking photos in a dimly lit area and was advised to try raw as the quality would be much better and some info could be retained rather than lost if taken as a jpeg. I am quite happy with the results even though I have now to learn how to use lightroom as well!! Anybody else just made the switch?
 
Is shooting in Adobe RGB Jpeg really that much more noticeable shot in RAW? I ask this as a complete amature of course :-)
 
Paul Male said:
Is shooting in Adobe RGB Jpeg really that much more noticeable shot in RAW? I ask this as a complete amature of course :-)
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If you shoot in RAW the camera captures the maximum information possible. From that it is possible to recover detail that would otherwise have been lost in highlights or shadows (BTW, that is not an excuse to avoid making the exposure as accurate as possible). Similarly white balance, and more, can be adjusted during processing.
If you want the maximum control over the final image then RAW is the way to shoot.
 
I find that the benefit of shooting in RAW is the ability to correct under/over exposed shots
 
I only tend to shoot RAW if I'm doing white subjects outdoors (i.e. it may well overexpose and I'd like to claw back some detail).

That said, I've just got a D90 and the in camera processing is so good (active contrast compensation, auto chromic aberration correction etc) that as long as I have the camera set up properly and check my histogram with my preferred sharpening and saturation levels then I think I'll probably just shoot JPG (or RAW+JPG in tricky situations) from now on - it would take me hours to process each RAW file to the same quality.
 
I'm absolutly blown away by the results - i was in a very dark room and have managed to get detail that i would certainly have lost
 
I'm using lightroom for the first time and I 'select all' then selected edit in photoshop so i can open in ps and save the modified pics into a folder then adjust the size for the web. There must be an easyier way????
 
2nd worst mistake I ever made in digital photography was shooting in JPEG only for the first few times (worst mistake was listening to Ken Rockwell's "advice" on this matter). RAW gives you the opportunity both to get the maximum out of any image and, sometimes, to correct basic mistakes especially with regard to white balance. I have also found that as RAW processors become more advanced you can extract more out of old images.
 
Paul Male said:
Is shooting in Adobe RGB Jpeg really that much more noticeable shot in RAW? I ask this as a complete amature of course :-)
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Personally, I don't think so. Most of my work's done in JPEG and I'm damned if I can see the difference in the final print.
 
If you were to go on holiday and say for arguments sake take 1000 RAW photos when you got back would you have to do some post production work on each individual one?
Sorry maybe a dumb question,but have never used RAW.
 
RBHD1 said:
If you were to go on holiday and say for arguments sake take 1000 RAW photos when you got back would you have to do some post production work on each individual one?
Sorry maybe a dumb question,but have never used RAW.
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Basically yes, although you can automate the system somewhat but then you may as well shoot JPG.

Like I said, I now shoot mostly JPG unless the situation could lead to easily blown highlights.
 
Always shied away from it until a few weeks ago then decided to give it a go (for once having a bit of time on my hands to properly play around with some PP). Shot in RAw+jpeg for the first couple of times, now in RAW only. Found it wasn't taking much longer to do but could make some finer tweaks than I could in just jpeg
 
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