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When it's not necessary to shoot RAW

Started Oct 7, 2021 | Questions thread
Thomas A Anderson Senior Member • Posts: 1,360
Re: Thomas, I shoot events and don't find any need for RAW's.
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YehudaKatz wrote:

Thomas A Anderson wrote:

YehudaKatz wrote:

So are my clients.

Who are your clients? And why don't you ever shoot RAW? If you're shooting JPEG exclusively, do you ever edit them at all or do you give the files as-is to clients?

I NEVER submit a photo, printed or mailed, without some processing like cropping, color correcting, adding some sharpness etc.

Yehuda

There was a long period when I never bothered editing RAW also, and even now when I do edit RAW files it's usually a very small percentage of my total count in personal situations.  That's either in very challenging situations where I think the JPEG just can't do the subject justice (like maybe I can extract a lot more dynamic range out of the highlights and really make the image pop in a way that the camera wasn't able to do) or I'm convinced that the shot is so amazing that I might create a 30"X40" print.  Product photography where color accuracy is absolutely vital (selling expensive artwork online means getting colors accurate and also making sure clients are using properly calibrated monitors) is where I use a color calibration palette (Colorchecker) and incorporate those profiles into my RAW workflow, but if I'm putting vacation shots in an online gallery they're almost always the SooC JPEG's.

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