Benefits of Shooting RAW photos

With all the different image formats out there, the majority of photos taken are in the JPEG format. It's not a bad format by any means, but its not the best. Each of the formats have their benefits and weaknesses too. JPEG is great if you don't want to do any serious editing to the photos.


Say with this photo here, looks pretty good right? I feel it could be a little better, but if I want to do some editing to them, well it won't look as good after. The easiest way to say why is because all the image data, color, lighting, things like that are all put in place. It makes the file smaller, which is great for storage.
But if storage isn't an issue, and you want to improve your photos, you can end up with something like this.

Bit of an improvement huh? Looks more natural and like it has life to it. All of that thanks to RAW, which is the opposite of JPEG. All the image data is just another layer to the file, making some of file sizes huge as a result. I personally shoot RAW and JPEG simultaneously, I'm still learning how to shoot properly in RAW, so having the JPEG as a backup is ideal.

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