Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 39: Understanding RAW Files

This week Mark Wallace explains the difference between RAW and JPEG. There's no right or wrong answer to the question "should I shoot RAW or JPEG?" but Mark will help explain the advantages of each format.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• digital photography
• Snapfactory
• Adobe
• Lightroom
• Photoshop
• workflow
• Canon
• Nikon
• Camera
• Adorama
• AdoramaTV
• Mark Wallace
• RAW
• JPG

[TaurusPresents]

Hi Mark,

Your vids are great!!!

Your explanations are very clear and a great help to work on a higher level.

Thank you.

[mavishill]

very bad 'baking a cake' example, lol

[atifalimian]

excelent video clears everything :) about raw

[thedarkpassenger2312]

best explanation for raw files! thanks a lot!

[sevenmediainc]

GREAT VIDEO HANDS DOWN!! I never understood what RAW file was. but now i do!

[Universeal13]

will see what a raw file can do.

[Universeal13]

where are those areas. The biggest advantage in raw is that you have the quality, even if you got some wrong settings but on lcd screen you thought those were good but on pc monitor you see that you need to do something else well with raw you can. You can increase the quality of the image make it sharper more brighter darkest and if you have b or white areas you can give them shape with a raw file. So if you want to experience the raw shoot in a black area or white with some detail in it and you

[Universeal13]

you can do have b&w on a jpg but be sure you shoot in color then in ps or something that you use you can convert into b&w and still have the color. You also can play with light and other things in jpg. The only problem is that in jpg what you shoot is what you get. If by mistake you didn't put some good settings on your camera and on some area are way too black or way too white well the only thing to get rid of that is to paint but it will not be that good and other thing is crop which depends

[xfire7]

It clears it up just right ,thanks so much for posting this :)

[Tealkoi]

AWESOME.... Thanks so much. Very much appreciate, great video and wonderful ways to explain things.

[redsonjaxe]

@mavishill yeah...i agree. A stew might have been better.

[nagyart1]

thanks a lot you are the best really and helpful