DragonHeart

enoyskt

Is RAW some sort of imaging software to mess around with your photos?

SEVNT4

It's a format that you shoot in.

flitcroft

RAW is the data that comes from your digital sensor, like digital film. It has no non-linear manipulations from the camera and is stored in a lossless format. JPG, the normal mode for most cameras, is compressed (so every time you save in that format your pictures look worse) and can have odd corrections by a camera for things like sharpness and contrast. Those adjustments may look better sometimes but they also mean that you never get access to the actual data that was recorded by the camera. That is, once your camera sharpens an image you lose the unsharp image. So if the image is oversharpened you can never fix it. You're stuck.

RAW images work with just the pixels and all corrections are saved in 3-4k config files so the orginal data is never lost. It's exceptionally cool if you have the processing speed, memory card space, and digital storage for all the large images, but for most casual photographers it's probably overkill. With RAW you can't immediately just email a photo. There is no standard RAW format and no non-photographer can open your files unless you manually export to another format.

Kel

I really liked the RAW editing program you recommended, way better then adobe and it loads everything so fast!

SEVNT4

So how did you shoot it? handheld?

Kel

Oops, sorry, I forgot to answer that, all my shots are handheld.

SEVNT4

Cool. I'm gonna keep working with that flash fill stuff because I find it hard to get a nice crisp shot sometimes unless it's with a tripod.

BTW, is this a reflection of the silver car off the black car?

Kel

That car is Silverstone, and quite dirty I might add.

SEVNT4