03-27-2018, 11:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2018, 11:17 PM by JJ_SO.
Edit Reason: Tried to make an inserted picture to be shown in this bloody forum software...
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I'm perfectly fine with shooting JPGs in situations with no complicated light, no surprising exposure changes and enough time to prepare JPG settings, what balance, dynamic range adjustments - or mass production, like weddings, sports, birds in flight, focus stacks, panoramas with balanced histogram.
This picture is made of 49 JPGs, therefore saving diskspace and increasing processing speed.
![[Image: Sleipnir%20Antrieb-L.jpg]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Bicycles/Bike-trips/i-2ssK5HV/1/0fe017aa/L/Sleipnir%20Antrieb-L.jpg)
(It's still not perfect at the spokes, but also not that much of a value to spend more time.)
Nonetheless, to be prepared for any surprises and able to focus more on composition and the right moment, I don't use anything else than RAW for daily purposes. Too often I came home with JPGs (in the early days of digital images) wanted to tweak some colours, highlights, shadows - yet there was no reserves left. JPG is nice if I could nail everything, but a real disappointment if the moment was perfect - and the white balance not.
As for "spending too long with too many possibilities": I find it helpful to have an idea or a concept before taking a picture - I get lost, if I find a picture "somehow interesting, but a bit is missing". I know I will fail if I try to get a picture right only in post. PP to me is a final touch - not a correction of the wrong idea before. I'm speaking strictly only of my wrong ideas, rover...
This picture is made of 49 JPGs, therefore saving diskspace and increasing processing speed.
![[Image: Sleipnir%20Antrieb-L.jpg]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Bicycles/Bike-trips/i-2ssK5HV/1/0fe017aa/L/Sleipnir%20Antrieb-L.jpg)
(It's still not perfect at the spokes, but also not that much of a value to spend more time.)
Nonetheless, to be prepared for any surprises and able to focus more on composition and the right moment, I don't use anything else than RAW for daily purposes. Too often I came home with JPGs (in the early days of digital images) wanted to tweak some colours, highlights, shadows - yet there was no reserves left. JPG is nice if I could nail everything, but a real disappointment if the moment was perfect - and the white balance not.
As for "spending too long with too many possibilities": I find it helpful to have an idea or a concept before taking a picture - I get lost, if I find a picture "somehow interesting, but a bit is missing". I know I will fail if I try to get a picture right only in post. PP to me is a final touch - not a correction of the wrong idea before. I'm speaking strictly only of my wrong ideas, rover...
