Shooting in raw
Does anybody shoot in raw? I've been experimenting with it for the last couple of weeks. Raw-format photos add an extra step to the editing workflow and I'm still trying to convince myself that it's worth it. Charles

definately worth it !! I only do not use it when I am at Riat, because when it comes to editing, due to the fact that you cannot see the thumbnail of a raw image, but you have to use a converter that opens them one by one, so it makes it too laborious to compare and choose the best images from all those thousands, so I shoot JPEG at Riat, but in doing so I miss the extra quality that the raw gives you. All the other times I shoot raw and you would visibly see the difference.

Photoshop CS2 opens Nikon RAWs quite nicely. I just had my first go at RAW + JPEG. Very demanding on the camera interms or card writing speed and buffer, so not recommended for contrinuous chot sequences. But it gives you much more flexibility in your shots. Cheers, Mark

Thanks for the replies guys. Alan do you convert your raw images in photoshop or the Canon software? Charles

Hey everyone. I have started shooting certain things in RAW, and yes it gives you a lot of advantages, but you need to get to know your software and tweak a lot! I have the CS2 add-on that lets me edit RAW images. As Alan said.. it takes forever to open one by one... however. there is this cool piece of free software from google, that lets you see all your RAW images without having to open one by one! Here is the link http://picasa.google.co.uk/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-emea-uk-google&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=picasa Ive been using this for recent work and it made it possible to shoot a lot of images in RAW and then see them back just as you would with jpegs. 1 thing to note. I noticed that once converting from RAW and saving to web for jp's etc, the images become slightly under saturated. This might just be something ive done but thought id mention it anyway. If this does occur... judt go to Hue Saturation and increase the saturation! :roll:

Aaron, I suspect that has to do with colour space. I think (not sure, still learning the ropes) that when you convert from Raw Photoshop assigns the Adobe RGB colour space to the photo, which is optimised for print rather than on-screen viewing and does not display well on browsers that do not support Adobe RGB. For web purposes you need to convert the colour profile to sRGB. Charles

Hi guys.. No we use Canon software only as a viewer of the raw images. Conversion in made in photoshop. IAN

:lol: :lol: :lol: ......told you !! :lol: :lol:

if you want to view raw images within seconds from downloading and then maybe have a shot at them by doing some adjustment i massively suggest to try to use Adobe Lightroom 1.0. It is an excellent program and works in conjunction with photoshop. Take a look at it here http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/