After doing this photo shoot, I started to revert back to when I was in school and we were taught to shoot in RAW. During that period I couldn't for the life of me figure out why anyone in their right mind would want to shoot this way. It was just more simple to shoot in JPEG, run it through Photoshop, do some quick editing, and move on. After reading several blogs and articles about how to get a better finished product with RAW, I'm starting to get back to it. I seemingly find it better to work with now that I did several years ago. My point here is that I happen to know several people that still shoot SOOC (Straight out of Camera), and are pleased with the results. If you were a client of mine, which would you prefer? I would also like to add that there are some great works that have came straight from the camera, and are placed in almost perfect lighting. So if you are one of those photographers that gives their clients a CD of their images, do you include the unedited images as well? I personally perfer both. I just like the fact that a subject can be placed in the perfect lighting, and still turn out a geat piece of work.
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