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.
(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...