Question of the Day: Do you shoot RAW or JPEG Real Estate Photos (and why)?12285
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 WGAN ForumFounder & WGAN-TV Podcast Host Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Hi All, The WGAN Forum Question of the Day for Thursday, 18 June 2020: Question of the Day: Do you shoot RAW or JPEG Real Estate Photos (and why)? Best, Dan |
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 WGAN FanCLUB Member Coeur d'Alene, Idaho |
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| Raw + JPG Raw if I am editing my photos JPG if I am outsourcing my editing to BoxBrownie |
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| I shoot raw for ease of editing in Lightroom, camera raw and photoshop. I do Flash/Ambient blends to remove shadows from ceilings, window pulls and removing glare from light fixtures. | ||
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| I like it raw, craw, huRAW... Canon RAW! | ||
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| RAW for sure! Gives you more to work with in LR & PS. | ||
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| I shoot hdr jpegs. Hdr renders raw redundant and the files are smaller. Manual exposure and adjust white balance in camera. | ||
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| @HarlanHambright Do you adjust the white balance manually or use the automatic setting? |
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HarlanHambright private msg quote post Address this user | |
| auto in normal settings. sometimes bracket using different settings, merge with layering, etc. depends on the conditions. Matterport images usually come out pretty close. | ||
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| Has to be raw for everything except sports where I might shoot a couple of thousand shots at a game. shooting JPEGs for real estate would make it harder to balance interiors/exteriors unless you’re bracketing hdr shots. But I don’t shoot RE I teach photo/video part time at a local Uni and shooting raw is a day one recommendation unless you’re using the files straight out of the camera without adjustment. I see students trying to manipulate JPEGs every year and it’s never right unless very subtle because they’ve thrown away 90% of the colour information in the jpeg conversion. The dark arts of compression... |
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 WGAN StandardMember Greenville, South Carolina |
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| I just picked up my first DSLR. I’ve always heard, shoot RAW format. I have a question for the Real Estate Photographers though. I plan on bracketing, merging a HDR in Lightroom, and editing that rendered file. Do I need to shoot in RAW? What are my pros and cons? I took some practice shoots in RAW-Large, and my dated PC was dragging trying to work in Lightroom. |
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| RAW 99% of the time - gives more control when editing compared to jpg. | ||
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| Real quick: if you're planning on using HDR merge in LR, you need to keep your exposures very close together. Wide exposure gaps will result in some bizarre decisions by the software. It does work great sometimes, but not consistently in my experience. If you're shooting RAW, why RAW large? I'd sugesst that small is plenty. I havent shot a jpg in 6 years. Quote: Originally Posted by 8643d |
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WGAN Standard Member Greenville, South Carolina |
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| @Expertise I’ve been experimenting with the 80d And 10-22 lens that I picked up on Thursday. I’m trying to watch tutorials and some online lectures to see what works best for me. Everyone seems to have their own opinions on how to “correctly” shoot real estate. I’ll try a smaller RAW. As of now, I’m shooting at ISO 100, f8, and auto shutter speed using natural lighting. With stops at 4, 2, 0, -2, -4, but I’ll try 2, 1, 0, -1, -2. Should I consider investing in flash? |
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| Like most of those that have commented here, I also shoot RAW. The reason is, as most have pointed out, there is more flexibility in post when editing your images. If you didn't get the white balance right in camera, this can be particularly problematic to deal with in post when using a JPEG. Also, the dynamic range available from a JPEG image is significantly reduced when compared to a RAW image, thus making it difficult to recover details in the shadows and in the highlights. Additionally, I do want to mention to those that are deciding whether to shoot JPEG and/or RAW, that for JPEG images, you need to pay special attention to your "picture style" settings as this will greatly affect the appearance of your JEPG since this basically tells the camera how to process the information captured to create the final image. I always recommend that you shoot with a neutral/flat color profile to give you the most flexibility in post. Others may have differing opinions on this, but that is just my 2 cents. Thanks, JonJ |
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| You could easily go to ISO 400 or 500, you wont have to wait all day for your bright exposure, lol. 4, 2, 0, -2, -4 is great, I'm just saying that LR Merge seems to prefer closer brackets, it gets "confused" when gaps are too large. You can push your 2 stop brackets closer towards the center in LR to help LR Merge out. I usually leave out any real dark and real light files as well. Does that make sense to you? Trying flash now would just confuse you. Quote: Originally Posted by 8643d |
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WGAN Standard Member Greenville, South Carolina |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Expertise I believe this makes sense. Using exposure in Lightroom? I’ll try a higher ISO as well. Thanks for helping a beginner, @Expertise |
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| Hi All, Another word of caution when deciding on what format to use with respect to the different RAW options. Specifically for the Canon 80d, the RAW small format will only yield an image with a resolution of 2000x3000. Whereas the Large format yields 4000x6000. This comes into play if you need to crop images or if you need high resolution images for print media. Also, you should check with your clients to see if they have minimum resolution requirements as this may be the deciding factor when choosing the capture format. Designers and architects may need high resolution images that they can later manipulate, if desired. Hope this helps, Jon |
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WGAN Forum Founder & WGAN-TV Podcast Host Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Video: Shoot RAW or JPEG for Real Estate Photography | Video courtesy of Jordan Nielsen YouTube Channel | 15 July 2021 | ||
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 WGAN FanClub Member Queensland, Australia |
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| I would suggest getting Photomatix Pro license. I had it and used it but then with subscription to Adobe I went doing HDR merge in LR. It all was ok until I got one shot in a hotel hall. I merged to HDR in LR but it was not enough. I spent a lot of time trying to bring some shadows, correct colours and many things and I still was not happy. Then I decided to give Photomatix a chance again and it did a trick. It produced HDR with all correct colours and everything as it should be. Now I think LR HDR merge is highly undeveloped and I am not going to use it anymore. I shoot with raw+jpeg. |
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| I am a YouTube student of Nathan Cool. I shoot in raw. Depending on if I’m doing a window pull, I shoot two to three exposures of those three one is a flash shot. I do my color corrections in Lightroom Classic, then export the photos as layers in photoshop, then blend the flash /ambient photos. Raw gives you more flexibility with exposure and color than jpeg |
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