Explaining Raw Compared to JPEG!

Explaining Raw Compared to JPEG!

I am going to explain Raw compared to JPEG as simplest as I can using my own words as best as I can. I will start with JPEG because its the fastest way to a finished photograph. A JPEG photograph is like a TV dinner. Where your camera cooked you image in camera like a microwave. Yes its fast. Your image right out of camera can be printed without doing anything else. I don’t recommend this at all. You still need to use a editing app to make the best image you can even using JPEG. The problem with JPEG photographs is your camera cooked in your raw ingredients and left out some ingredients ( Data ) to make a smaller file and is ready right out of the camera. 

Now lets look at Raw image. Raw is like a uncooked meal that will use all the raw ingredients like a chef. Now your camera is like a whole bunch of different bowls with all the raw ingredients left uncooked. Because nothing was cooked in the camera. You have all the raw ingredients ( data ). You cannot print right out of camera. Thats why I said a raw image instead of a raw photograph. So you in an editing app, using all of the raw data you becomes the chef to make the best meal ( photograph ) possible to your taste. Like a chef a photographer will add or minus the amount of ingredients to their taste. This take longer to create a photographs because you cooked the photograph in an editing app without the camera ( fast microwave ) to your taste like a true chef would.

What kind of meal ( photograph ) do you want? A quick TV dinner or a chef cooked meal. I know what kind of meal I prefer and thats a chef cooked meal. You need to figure out what kind of meal you prefer.

I went from a instant camera as a little kid. It was my mom’s camera with no options. To a 35mm point and shoot still with only one option and that was what film speed ( ASA/ISO ) to use. I still was not happy so I got a film SLR camera with many options. I now use a DSLR with many options. I like options for my photography. So I shoot with Raw. If you want as much options for your photography like I do start shooting RAW!