I find it really strange every time someone asks me if I shoot in JPEG or RAW. Honestly, the correct answer is - it does not matter. Even if I did shoot in RAW, my postprocessing done was so minimal the images look like they come straight out of camera anyway. I prefer the natural, true to life look, something more realistic, rather than over-processed, or images with exaggerated color biases. I have no problem shooting JPEG too, in fact, whenever I feel lazy, when I don't want to do any editing, I just set the camera to JPEG and fired away. This latest session I did just that, and I recorded everything in video as evidence (so people cannot accuse me of lying or cheating, you can see my camera screen - it isn't set to RAW). You can check the video here (click), I also share my camera JPEG settings there.
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The JPEG/RAW debate is a decades old debate but it are some new arguments towards using RAW files. Lightroom (and I assume PS) has an AI powered "Denoise" feature, which does a much better job of noise reduction than previous LR noise reduction tech, and it only currently works on RAW files. The RAW details feature also only works on RAW files and is implemented automatically with Denoise.
ReplyDeleteOther photo editing software may have similar AI powered feature that work on JPEGs and Adobe may update it's tech to operated on JPEGS in the future.
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