 Ellen |
Wedding Photography: JPEG, TIFF or RAW? Hi everyone, First, I wish to thank everybody who gave me sympathy when my new Fuji s2 dropped off its strap. To the person who said it might not be as bad as you think lifted me no end. It only cost me $120.00, and it took only 10 days to down to Sydney and back 8 days in transit. Things are slow in the bush. But I am very happy with my camera. My question is: What is the general rule when photographing weddings, do most people use JPEG, TIFF, or RAW? - Ellen. P.S: By the way, the info on this site is great.
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doug Nelson |
At my own wedding, the wedding guest with a digital camera took the best portrait of us. Unfortunately, he was more concerned with how many pictures he could cram onto a card than in the quality. I had to up-sample the image in Photoshop to get a barely acceptable 5 x 7 to frame. If you're at an event as important as this, shoot in TIFF or RAW, at the highest resolution you can shoot. Buy more cards if you have to. Yours might be the shot they'll treasure. If you are the main photographer, shoot scenes in the same light, in the same place, if possible, and with your flash to BE SURE you will get what you want.
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Michael H. Cothran |
First, I'm happy that your mishap wasn't as bad as it could have been. I, too, shoot with a Fuji S2, and love it. I would most definitely, without any doubt, always, always, always shoot in RAW. With a 1 gig card, you will get 80 shots. For weddings, you could pocket some extra gig cards, which have come way down in price. And if you had a portable hard drive device (I use either a Mac iPod or a Mac laptop on location), you could be uploading one card while you've got one shooting in the camera, and yet a third and fourth in your pocket waiting their turn. With RAW files, you'll never have to worry about how large of an image you can provide your customer, and as long as you know your way around an editing software like Photoshop, you will always be able to provide your customer with the absolute best quality images of all.
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- Greg McCroskery Contact Greg McCroskery Greg McCroskery's Gallery |
Ellen, Consider me the renegade! I am a professional photographer specializing in wedding, portrait, event , and stock photography. I shoot almost exclusively in the highest quality jpeg mode. I regularly produce 16X20 portrait prints that look great. Most wedding clients rarely order anything larger than 8X10 -- the largest size for most wedding albums. Shooting RAW give a little more post processing flexibility, but also requires way more post processing time than jpeg files. If you shoot 200-400 shots at a wedding, you don't want to spend your life at a computer converting RAW files to TIFF's with all the other corrections that may be needed. I find that my clients are totally happy with the prints I provide them, and haven't yet had someone ask me whether the print came from a RAW or Jpeg file. I would suggest that you do some test prints from both file types and decide for yourself whether the extra time involved is worth shooting RAW. God Bless,
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Terry Lennox |
Hi Ellen, sorry to hear about your Fuji- it can be a heart stopping moment I know! Approx a year ago I slipped and completely destroyed my canon D30 and 70-200L 2.8 lens- lol I coud've cried at the time. Luckily id added both of these to my house insurance which wasnt expensive and specified i'd be taking them outdoors - The insurance company replaced the D30 with a 10D and the 70-200L2.8 with the IS version after 2 weeks- So a major disater(for me) turned out pretty well!!! Id definately recommend insurance- I did price around for this and it worked out a lot less expensive adding the items onto my house insurance rather than getting specific camera equipment insurance! Best of luckwith your photography !! Terry
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