Why JPEGS are SO GOOD!

It's 2023 now!!!

Happy New Year to you as well. A little late but better late than never, eh?

I feel the same way about dinosaurs.

As someone who prefers stylish image treatments, raw+jpeg is great. You have a better canvas and a great reference

The camera has very limited rudimentary tools available for editing photos. Nothing like a powerful computer loaded with Lightroom and Photoshop.

I accidentally left my setting for RAW + JPEG when exposure bracketing. What proved interesting was comparing the standard exposure jpeg with the composite before editing. Yup, I definitely agree with the idea of going back to look at your edits later, maybe a few times. My biggest problem is my love of vivid photos. Feels like lock down was a long time ago. Yeah!

All excited about welcoming everyone to 2020. If we only knew 😂

One thing we have to do is look away from time to time. Use a TV or a large picture. Then look back at your work. You'll notice rt off the bat what's wrong. Mainly under exposed or lack of contrast!

It’s strange to see people in early 2020. They have no clue what’s coming

Spoiler alert: They're not!

I'd caveat that black and white photographers should probably always shoot raw+jpeg. I mostly just dodge and burn the jpegs but sometimes emulating a color filter is nice and the raw file makes that extremely easy

When I started photography I used to process my own film and prints, maybe a test strip and up to two prints to get it right. Maybe end up with three or four prints for an evenings work. When I moved to digital I processed in Photoshop and could spend hours on one image but as cameras have become much better at processing to jpegs. I still shoot jpg and raw but seldom process the raw because the jpgs come out as I saw the scene.

Here i am 3 years later and watching this vidio 😅 Truly amazing man! Your work and your way of explaining is so suiting and easy to understand. Love my journy on watching every single vidio

Happy new year 2023.

Jpg is pure fucking trash anyone who considers them good doesn't edit their own or care or even understand what's going on when they press the shutter button.

Interestingly, I am watching this in the new year, just 3 years later. And oh how innocent 2020 seemed at the time...

im too lazy to edit photos so i just do the work (composition and exposure) before taking the picture and shoot jpegs so its easy to post to insta or whatever (also it means each photo is only like 5 MB)

I only shoot jpeg on the basis that I like use my skill taking the picture. Plus the only editing I do is cropping. If I don't like my results I try to learn from them for next time.

I wanted to finally test this theory of RAW and JPEG and I used my Sony HX99 to shoot a typical home photo. It takes ONE image but you see TWO files:
One is RAW and the other is JPEG
1. RAW file size was 18,645KB
2. JPEG was taking up 8,728KB
Clearly the JPEG was slightly more than 2.13X smaller which is always a welcome.
Which one was clearer?
JPEG was! There some items of text file in a DVD cabinet. I could read the words "Panasonic" in JPEG format but NOT in RAW which was very surprising to me!
Also, Alex Monitor was above and I could make out the words displayed on JPEG but NOT in RAW. How good is that!
Switching between JPEG and RAW using ACDSEE, I would tell that the JPEG had won as a moved between RAW and JPEG with a wheelhouse one rotation.
Now I know someone will write a comment like what about when you process etc.
But in one simple terms, JPEG image had less noise, was sharper and smaller in file size.
I am now 99% convinced that JPEG is way forward.
If anyone wishes to try the SAME technique and has a Digital Camera (mines a Sony HX99) please try the same experiment and let me know which one you prefect.

About 3 months before the world went on lockdown!

Scatterbrain, but brilliant at the same time. Brilliant.

Why are you not talking about November 1st, 2022?

I have edited RAW so many times. And if don't want any special effects, They look like my JEPGS from camera hahahaha

seeing this in 2022, but then ive been binge watching your videos

Brilliant

Funny, how the first 30 seconds of the Video is about it probably not going viral, with a video that has definitly gone viral... Good call James 😜😅

Lol at the welcome to 2020 part 😂

I'm an amateur photographer and even more amateur photo editor. I will try this! Thank you very much for the video.

Having an old 5dMk3, I leave two cards in it and let it drop RAW to the CF and JPG to the SD as a safety. Having a reference is certainly handy, I tend to just use the before & after function in LR mobile which I seem to end up using mostly.

Welcome to 2020! Little did you know😓

Its 2022 August :)

Great advice. Never thought about using jpeg as my reference for my raw editing escapades.

You started 2020 with such enthusiasm… that went well…

I used to shoot raw (note lack of capitalisation) all the time, but realised the jpg outputs of the camera was (in most instances) just as good as what I'd been getting in PS and other processors. That, coupled with the cost of memory at the time, led to me shooting mostly jpgs.
Except in difficult circumstances, where I'd shoot raw just in case I really had to fiddle with it.
However, now that memory is so cheap, I usually shoot raw+jpg and damn the torpedos.
To be honest, most of my pics are candid street stuff and usually don't warrant getting all precious about them.

I’m watching in 2022😊

I mean raw and jpeg makes sense to me, if you have an option to do multiple options at once, why choose otherwise?

Me watching this after just using a film camera. "My format is 135 film."

Excellent points. It is very easy to get too overly active in "reforming" a picture. On the other hand, the artistic element may be what you want and the jpg might confuse the process.

I have been using digital for 21 years and have yet to take a RAW image...... I don’t own any edit program on my computer. I wouldn’t know the first thing about how to edit something because computers are impossible for us senior citizens to comprehend. 😢. Whatever comes out of the camera is my finished product.

Well, it maybe not 2020 anymore, but still relevant! I shoot jpeg and raw, but it was more of a backup in case I stuff the raw up. Haven't been editing very long.... so now I have it tip on what the jpegs might b good for. Thanks.... 👍

Where's the welcome to 2020 part of 3?

This is 2022 for me…

"Happy new year! It's 2020!" It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. Brutal!

Great tip to use a JPEG as a reference! Can't believe I haven't done that.

Given how good in-camera processing is nowadays, to me, working with RAW files is just so much like hard work. Photoshop can give me just about all I want, if I need to process a JPEG. On top of that, inevitably, unless I'm going for some weird effect instead of recording reality, my processed RAW file tend to look just like my JPEG.

Even as a novice photographer I was highly recommended to shoot raw based on, I guess, the desires of the person who was teaching me about cameras; however, after watching his video juxtaposing a raw and jpeg together in the same frame on a good computer monitor, I really couldn't differentiate the image quality advantage in the raw, even after post-fixing, that much. I think it best to adopt the idea of shooting raw and jpeg at the same time. If the jpeg appears pleasing and does not need touch ups, then go with what's going to save you time. I like the idea of shooting in both formats and believe I will do this for a while.

Thank you! : )

smart man

As little as 10 years ago the image processors on the cameras were quite primitive and we needed the power of a computer to post-process them. Nowadays as you said, the image processors (e.g. Lumix Venus Engine) have "had lots and lots of work put into them by the camera manufacturers", are very powerful and specifically attuned to the camera system. To the extent that the generic photo crunchers are now falling behind on the camera's capabilities and functions.
Yes, do shoot raw+jpeg, but if you need to do a lot of fixing-up, maybe the photo ought to be binned. If the jpeg looks bad, the raw will be too.