56. THE POWER OF RAW IN POST

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IN THE SECOND chapter, I mentioned how shooting in the RAW file format affords you great control over adjusting your image’s white balance in post. Indeed, one of the strongest reasons to shoot in RAW is to quickly and effectively adjust white balance, but the RAW format has many more advantages. There’s no doubt that if you’ve been behind a camera any amount of time, you’ve heard other portrait photographers mention shooting only in RAW. They do so for good reason:

  1. 1 Hold on to the details. The RAW file format lets you capture all of the detail the digital sensor is capable of, so when you begin your post-processing ...

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