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RAW Processing - Lightroom 5 and T4i

Started Jun 16, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Crotonmark Contributing Member • Posts: 933
Re: RAW images are unprocessed

Oilman wrote:

Therefore they are almost always going to look flatter and duller than their JPG equivalents, which are processed in camera. That is why if you are going to shoot RAW, it is necessary to use a product like LR to "post-process" the pictures to get them to a point at which you find them pleasing. PROPER PROCESSING IS AS IMPORTANT AS GETTING THE PHOTO RIGHT!!! Read Ansel Adams, discussions on photo processing.

You can go back to shooting JPGs but the camera cannot do nearly as good a job of processing as you can and much detail is lost when the photos are converted to JPG in the camera.

Read Ron Bigelow's essays on the subject www.ronbigelow.com

thanks

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