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<blockquote data-quote="JackStalk" data-source="post: 447675" data-attributes="member: 28783"><p>It takes practice, but once you get used to it you don't really see the difference at all. My team takes beautiful photos that you'd never know were shot in JPEG. It blew me away when I first started shooting with them. It is a rough learning curve at first, but getting your WB and exposure right in the camera makes it a lot quicker and easier to go through and batch edit later. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter whether you are shooting RAW or JPEG, as long as the end product comes out great. One quote I heard recently was "if you take longer than two second to edit a photo, you're losing money" and that really changed my way of thinking. Granted, this really only applies to heavy workload professional stuff because I love spending an hour processing a fun RAW file just as much as the next enthusiast. I'd rather take a picture and get it right on the spot versus saying "oh I'll fix it later" or "I can fix that WB in post". </p><p></p><p>The reward/benefit from getting it right on the JPEG side is that you become more intuitive to your surroundings without having an easy way to correct it later. I can walk into a hallway and be like "oh this white balance looks like B6" or something and then I know it'll be spot on later. Also, when you're doing a preview slide show at the reception, you can just load your SD/CF card into the TV and hit PLAY because all of the photos from the ceremony are already perfectly shot in the camera and ready to be displayed without having to load them into LR and then process them and export them back out. Timing is key in that specific circumstance. </p><p></p><p>Like I said before, I only shoot JPEG for weddings/sports where I'm taking a large number of images and I want them to be right in the camera so I can quickly export them and show the images on the spot to parents of sports players or wedding guests. I've shot a few events for another company where they give you SD/CF cards and then take them at the end of the event so I don't get to touch them at all. I make sure everything is good in the camera and then they dont have to spend much time editing after the event. It's a personal preference thing, and 90% of the people on here will always be able to shoot RAW in every instance and it'll be fine. I still shoot RAW when I'm out for fun doing landscapes or wildlife or people or whatever because I enjoy the post processing side even though I already get it right in camera most of the time. It's fun to go that extra mile tweaking a RAW to make it look jaw-dropping. But when your studio is shooting 210 weddings for 2015, it's in everyone's best interest to be as streamlined as possible with your work while still keeping a high quality.</p><p></p><p>Summary: I shoot JPEG for weddings/sports, and RAW for fun and for everything else. There's really no downside to shooting RAW as a hobbyist, or even as a working professional, but if you can nail a shot perfectly in the camera it just makes your life easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JackStalk, post: 447675, member: 28783"] It takes practice, but once you get used to it you don't really see the difference at all. My team takes beautiful photos that you'd never know were shot in JPEG. It blew me away when I first started shooting with them. It is a rough learning curve at first, but getting your WB and exposure right in the camera makes it a lot quicker and easier to go through and batch edit later. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter whether you are shooting RAW or JPEG, as long as the end product comes out great. One quote I heard recently was "if you take longer than two second to edit a photo, you're losing money" and that really changed my way of thinking. Granted, this really only applies to heavy workload professional stuff because I love spending an hour processing a fun RAW file just as much as the next enthusiast. I'd rather take a picture and get it right on the spot versus saying "oh I'll fix it later" or "I can fix that WB in post". The reward/benefit from getting it right on the JPEG side is that you become more intuitive to your surroundings without having an easy way to correct it later. I can walk into a hallway and be like "oh this white balance looks like B6" or something and then I know it'll be spot on later. Also, when you're doing a preview slide show at the reception, you can just load your SD/CF card into the TV and hit PLAY because all of the photos from the ceremony are already perfectly shot in the camera and ready to be displayed without having to load them into LR and then process them and export them back out. Timing is key in that specific circumstance. Like I said before, I only shoot JPEG for weddings/sports where I'm taking a large number of images and I want them to be right in the camera so I can quickly export them and show the images on the spot to parents of sports players or wedding guests. I've shot a few events for another company where they give you SD/CF cards and then take them at the end of the event so I don't get to touch them at all. I make sure everything is good in the camera and then they dont have to spend much time editing after the event. It's a personal preference thing, and 90% of the people on here will always be able to shoot RAW in every instance and it'll be fine. I still shoot RAW when I'm out for fun doing landscapes or wildlife or people or whatever because I enjoy the post processing side even though I already get it right in camera most of the time. It's fun to go that extra mile tweaking a RAW to make it look jaw-dropping. But when your studio is shooting 210 weddings for 2015, it's in everyone's best interest to be as streamlined as possible with your work while still keeping a high quality. Summary: I shoot JPEG for weddings/sports, and RAW for fun and for everything else. There's really no downside to shooting RAW as a hobbyist, or even as a working professional, but if you can nail a shot perfectly in the camera it just makes your life easier. [/QUOTE]
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