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Published: 2007-07-20 09:00:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 546; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Very protective of his birdhouse he is
Shot in RAW and cropped in Photoshop CS2 (just started using RAW and man I lurv it
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I do not know much about RAW, what difference does it make in your opinion?
Great shot, the look in the eyes is lovely 
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Hey Anna. There is an excellent chunk of article on Wikipedia:
RAW Benefits
Nearly all digital cameras can process the image from the sensor into a JPEG file using settings for white balance, color saturation, contrast, and sharpness that are either selected automatically or entered by the photographer before taking the picture. Cameras that support raw files save these settings in the file, but defer the processing. This results in an extra step for the photographer, so raw is normally only used when additional computer processing is intended. However, raw permits much greater control than JPEG for several reasons:
* Finer control is easier for the settings when a mouse and keyboard are available to set them. For example, the white point can be set to any value, not just discrete values like "daylight" or "incandescent".
* The settings can be previewed and tweaked to obtain the best quality image or desired effect. (With in-camera processing, the values must be set before the exposure). This is especially pertinent to the white balance setting since color casts can be difficult to correct after the conversion to RGB is done.
* Camera raw files have 12 or 14 bits of intensity information, not the gamma-compressed 8 bits typically stored in processed TIFF and JPEG files; since the data are not yet rendered and clipped to a color space gamut, more precision may be available in highlights, shadows, and saturated colors.
* The working color space can be set to whatever is desired.
* Different demosaicing algorithms can be used, not just the one coded into the camera.
RAW Drawbacks
Camera raw files are typically 2–6 times larger than JPEG files. Some raw formats do not use compression, some implement lossless data compression to reduce the size of the files without affecting image quality and others use lossy data compression where quantization and filtering is performed on the image data. While use of raw formats avoids or reduces the compression artifacts inherent in JPEG, fewer images can fit on a given memory card. It also takes longer for the camera to write raw images to the card, so fewer pictures can be taken in quick succession (affecting the ability to take, for example, a sports sequence).
There is still no widely accepted standard raw format. Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) format has been put forward as a standard, but has not been adopted by major camera companies. Numerous different raw formats are currently in use and new raw formats keep being developed while others are orphaned.
Because of the lack of a standard raw format, more specialized software may be required to open raw files than for standardized formats like JPEG or TIFF. Software vendors are also having to frequently update their products to support the raw formats of the latest cameras.
The time taken in the image workflow is an important factor when choosing between raw and ready-to-use image formats.
END OF ARTICLE
So basically, RAW is much the 'digital negative' of the digital camera world as opposed to film. It makes you able to make adjustments to the white balance, color saturation, contrast, and sharpness without effecting the quality of your image at all (which you do do when you work on a JPEG file -automatically when you take a JPEG picture, it squishes all the information so much that some of the original quality is lost.) Hmmm, i think i may have baffled on and over loaded you with info by now so i'll leave it at that. Don't hesitate to ask more, i'm a teacher by trade and am used to it
P.S. Thanks so much for the lovely comment about my image!
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Thank you ever so much for all the info!!! I would love to try RAW but with my camera I can't + the fact that my laptop would not like the huge files I'm afraid. JPEG is rather limiting though and I do not like that loss in quality. So, no overload at all just very informative and what I asked for
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No problem whatsoever 
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Well, some day I will
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Very cute photo! He's hoping a few birds will fly in for him, lol, or if he's anything like my cat he will eat the birdseed! I love the expression on his face!
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What's RAW?
Anyway, not sure what to think of it but it hurts my eyes.
xD
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RAW is the digital version of creating a 'negative' which enables you to tweak the brightness/contrast/overall exposure without doing any damage to the image. RAW images are very large files but unlike when you shoot in JPEG, it keeps all the quality originally captured. JPEG's automatically crunch down the details in order to compress the file and make it smaller. Or something to that effect
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So...
You take a photo and turn it b&w? Or is there more to the process than I am thinking?
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Yup, applied a 'gradient map' to it...hmmm, i forgot to add that in the description.
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Oh, so a desaturation is considered a RAW?
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yeah, lots more flexibility with RAW. i don't use it too often cause i only have one darn memory card.
this pic is great btw. composition and colours are excellent. very subtle
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Awww, yeh it eats up a hell of a lot of memory 
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It sure does and she sure does
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Indeed, he is indeed. So, often fly in for a fistful of seeds, does he, hmm?
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HAHAHAHAHA! 
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Yes. How smart people talk, this is. Did you knew that not, hmm? Yeesssssss.
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Thank you so much D17, it really does mean a lot
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