Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode

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

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