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Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode

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Overview

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Learn to shoot raw. Explore the image-quality benefits and workflow considerations of shooting in your camera's raw format mode.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction to raw mode
1. Camera Sensors and Image Capture
  • Exploring whether your camera supports raw
  • Understanding the primary colors of light
  • Exploring how a digital sensor captures an image
  • Understanding how an image sensor sees color
  • What is a digital photo?
2. How Your Camera Makes a JPEG
  • Processing basic color
  • Correcting and compressing a JPEG
  • Exploring how JPEG compression works
  • Customizing JPEG compression
3. Understanding the Raw Format
  • Understanding raw conversion software
  • Getting under the hood of your raw converter
  • Exploring nondestructive editing
  • Working with raw files in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop
  • Exploring white balance and highlight recovery
4. Understanding Image Formats and Processing
  • Understanding when to shoot raw or JPEG or both
  • Understanding in-camera JPEG conversions
  • Exposing raw images
  • Reprocessing old raw images
  • Understanding Foveon sensors
  • Evaluating RAW, mRAW, and sRAW
  • Choosing a camera
Next Steps
  • Exploring next steps

Taught by

Ben Long

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