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julesstoop
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2009-12-05, 07:50

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Originally Posted by PB PM View Post
Chinney, that is generally the idea. In some ways, the spirit of the rules is to shoot jpgs rather than RAW, because the idea is to avoid post processing the images. In some ways that makes us think about how we take the shot more, no second chances to fix it up in pp.
I like the initiative, but:

Just about every professional photographer shoots in RAW and does some post processing. I would consider the RAW coming out of a camera as the equivalent of the old celluloid negative, and the RAW-converter + (in my case some) Photoshop as the digital dark room. I.m.h.o. mastering those tools is just as important a part of becoming a good photographer as is the actual shooting. Even the first step: getting a better overall result that the automatic jpeg setting in your camera can be an interesting challenge.

So, I'm sorry to say so, but for these reasons I don't agree with the restrictions at all.

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