A RAW refresher: the differences between JPEG and RAW.

If you look closely, the highlight recovery in LR also recovers the color information in the faces. All that reducing overall brightness or reducing highlights on a JPEG does is turning bright white spots into some sort of grey. Now this particular image I could have taken with an iPhone to capture the moment. No need for 7D or G1X - or RAW. But since I never know if there is a shot that I want to keep and work on, and improve as much as possible w/o running into the limitations of a pre-processed JPEG, I am shooting RAW. And I am really not good at correcting sharpness, color saturation, WB and contrast on camera because it is hard to judge the outcome on the camera LCD. Plus, I rather do that when there is time at home and not while taking pictures.