Raw & Expectations....

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I've been shooting all my photos in RAW format for sometime now and quite happy with the freedom it gives me in LR.

But, this is the question I am interested in getting an answer on.

If you shoot in RAW, should you always expect to have to make adjustments to the picture once on the computer?

I have recently invested in a 7d MkII and every picture coming off it is in need of adjustment in some way. Even NR at ISO 100 and a touch of sharpening, I also find the colour can be a little off, but I am now using Adobe RGB rather than sRGB.

So any comments and thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

The photos I should say are so far all from my local teams football matches.

Thanks in advance for comments.
 
I shoot in RAW with the expectation of developing the picture further. Lately I've been bracketing exposures to experiment with ETTR so there will obviously need to be some more work done. Sometimes there is hardly anything needs doing so I feel cheated - bah, a perfect photo with nothing to mess with :grumpy: - if you are finding the colour off this could be because you are using Adobe RGB, I wouldn't expect colour correction to be a standard part of processing. Why did you choose to use it, it's main value is for printing particularly commercial printing? You could try saving to the sRGB space and see if that makes a difference.
 
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Yes if you shoot raw then you should be expecting to work on it. If you don't want to have to do any work, shoot JPEG and fiddle with the options your given to suit and leave it at that.
 
Merluza said:
f you are finding the colour off this could be because you are using Adobe RGB, I wouldn't expect colour correction to be a standard part of processing. Why did you choose to use it, it's main value is for printing particularly commercial printing? You could try saving to the sRGB space and see if that makes a difference.
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Only reason for using it was that I read a couple of articles that suggested this was the way to go these days as sRGB is "old skool".. ;)

I'm not too worried about the work that needs doing to the photo, it's just the volume of work required... But I think these two quick answers do help a lot. Thank you to both of you.
 
At the very least you will need to add sharpening to a digital image. RAW is exactly that, it's a digital negative before processing, you will need to convert it into a readable file with some adjustments, however minimal.

Capturing in RGB just gives you a greater colour range to begin with, you can choose afterwards whether you output all of that gamut or not.
 
Thank you one and all....
 
Find a representative image and process it until it looks right. Then, while still in the develop module, hold down the 'Alt' key and you'll see the 'Reset' button in the bottom right change to 'Set default'. Click on that and you can tell LR to use that set of develop settings automagically for each new image. You can even get it to use a different set as default depending on camera type and/or ISO.
 
Raw will give you a chance to recover badly exposed pictures. So is a safety net. But you can't use them all, so must lose some to end up with a nice contrasty picture.
 
Hello Mark. RAW data will need edited, yes, but I'm thinking JPEG might be better suited to shooting football matches. Contrary to a lot of online opinion, JPEGs can edited too, though they're not as robust as RAW if you're making heavier adjustments.
 
Thanks for this thread. Quite a lot of what's been said applies to my quandary with when to shoot RAW or jpg. Based on various things I've read and been told over the years, I was always under the impression that RAW was better 99% of the time. Based on recent experiences with switching between the two and doing my own comparisons, this is clearly not the case at all. I'm still not completely happy with this new 'knowledge' and need to spend more time messing around with images, but I think it's given me a glimpse at some of the answers I need.

The sRGB vs Adobe RGB link kind of helped, but also confused me too as that is far from a straight answer and I still don't know enough to be able to choose when to switch from one to another for best results. I'll leave my camera set to Adobe RGB for now and see what happens. At least I can convert using PS to sRGB later if I really need to.

Much to ponder! :ty:
 
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