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Author Topic: An open letter to Freeman Patterson regarding jpegs and raw files  (Read 2329 times)

Lightsmith

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Re: An open letter to Freeman Patterson regarding jpegs and raw files
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2019, 02:28:53 pm »

With RAW I can adjust the color balance in post and that is reason enough to avoid using the JPG format. I have also seen the color compression and reduction in tonal range with JPG files that is little different than the heavy handed use of a noise reduction application. To my eyes it is like the super saturated images that resulted from the use of Velvia film that are fine for advertising graphics but not for depicting the natural world.

But most people are stupid when it comes to technology. I heard two college age girls in a restaurant talking about how the use of PV solar panels was going to drain the sun of its power. And these people vote.

There is much the same nonsense about not manipulating a digital image after it is taken. Every single color and black and white print produced has been manipulated in post production after the shot, with the exception of Polaroid prints.
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