Horoscope Fish
Senior Member
I've been through the whole JPG to JPG + RAW to just shooting all RAW, all the time as well and I know a big part of moving away from shooting JPG for me was a difference in mindset. Whether I realized it or not at the time, when I shot JPG, there was an underlying assumption I was going to be keeping every shot. Then, at some point, I realized I if I got home from a cool shoot having taken 100 shots, I'd be really happy if I found fifteen or twenty that were really good shots. If I then could find three or four shots, out of those fifteen or twenty really good ones, that I was totally happy with I'd be very excited.
But numbers aside I think the important thing is the underlying concept... Out of 100 shots I only plan on working with maaaybe twenty of them and those I do deem worthy of working on I want to be able to REALLY WORK ON to the fullest possible extent because I've already pared things down to those shots that are really, seriously rockin' my *boxers; and that means shooting in RAW. Invest in some decent processing software and book a or two on how to use it and you'll never go back to shooting JPG; not once you get a taste of the control you have when working with a RAW file. The important thing, though, is the mindset and how it differs from when I was shooting JPG and holding on to pretty much every, even remotely-decent shot I took. Shoot RAW, keep fewer shots, but get the most out of them.
One of these days I'm going to get up the gumption to go through hundreds of folders of old JPG's and just cull the drive, en masse, because the old mindset had me holding on to way, waaay too much crappy photography.
*Actually a brief's sorta guy (50/50 Cotton/Poly, Solid Colors).
But numbers aside I think the important thing is the underlying concept... Out of 100 shots I only plan on working with maaaybe twenty of them and those I do deem worthy of working on I want to be able to REALLY WORK ON to the fullest possible extent because I've already pared things down to those shots that are really, seriously rockin' my *boxers; and that means shooting in RAW. Invest in some decent processing software and book a or two on how to use it and you'll never go back to shooting JPG; not once you get a taste of the control you have when working with a RAW file. The important thing, though, is the mindset and how it differs from when I was shooting JPG and holding on to pretty much every, even remotely-decent shot I took. Shoot RAW, keep fewer shots, but get the most out of them.
One of these days I'm going to get up the gumption to go through hundreds of folders of old JPG's and just cull the drive, en masse, because the old mindset had me holding on to way, waaay too much crappy photography.
*Actually a brief's sorta guy (50/50 Cotton/Poly, Solid Colors).
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