Hehehe…chime in from a relative ‘newb’.
I’ve shot raw/jpeg since I got my D80 last Sept.
Only edited the jpegs; I’d had a couple p&s cams and was used to tweaking jpegs.
Kept all the raws on the hard drive; ‘someday…maybe…I’ve read about raws somewhere…’
Processed lots of jpegs from the D80.
Elements 3, upgraded to E7 along the way.
Only used crop/lighting/contrast.
I’m partially color blind so see things ‘differently’ than those not so afflicted.
(“There’s a rare green streak in that sunset shot I took??? WHERE??? D’oooohhh!”)
Results came out pretty well, lots of ‘oohs and ahhhs’ from family/friends.
Even got me some requests to shoot some events! (Dressage competition, crew/sculling Nationals, etc…)
Wild hair recently arose in nether regions; tried out raw editing.
Elements 7.
HOLY moly!
WHAT a difference!
In about the same amount of time I’d spent on the jpegs, I got MUCH better results with raw.
Smoother lines, less ‘crispness’ (unless I made it go that way), better color blends; list goes on…
(All my shots on Flickr are jpeg edits; haven’t thrown the raw edits up as replacements…yet…)
I look at it as another learning curve to photography.
P&S vs. DSLR; kit lens vs. faster/crisper; simpler editing program vs. more involved.
Edit jpegs to yer heart’s content.
Save the raws until you get better with the jpegs.
THEN go hawg wild!
Or just damn the torpedos and take on raw from the get-go…
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