From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode

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Introduction to raw mode

Introduction to raw mode

From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode

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Introduction to raw mode

- As a photographer, you have a lot of technical decisions to make, even before you start shooting SLR, or mirrorless, full-frame versus cropped frame, prime lenses, or zooms. The list goes on and on but, one of the most critical decisions you'll make, before you press the shutter button is, JPEG, or RAW? Because of that, we've built this course to give us the chance to look at what changes inside your camera when you choose RAW, over JPEG. We're going to perform a deep exploration of how your camera's image sensor works, as well as, examine all of the steps that your camera's computer has to take, to produce a finished image. Whether you shoot JPEG, or RAW, all of the same image processing steps are required to produce a finished image, so, even if you ultimately decide to shoot JPEG, this course can still teach you a lot of relevant details about how your camera works. Understanding the difference in the formats will give you a better understanding of how you should approach…

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