Peter Mendelson
New member
Preface: I am an amateur who shoots for fun.
I have been shooting exclusively RAW for a long time now, and constantly read about how people should be converting to aRGB Tiffs for best quality. I have generally been doing most of my adjustments in my RAW converter, and converting to sRGB JPEGs and have been pretty happy with the result. I mostly take candids of friends and family, and some travel and landscape as well. For my best travel and landscape shots, I convert to aRGB Tiffs (and convert these to sRGB for emailing/web).
I just could not imaging converting all my RAW shots to TIFFs rather than JPEGs - it seems like a huge waste of space for shots that I don't plan to print (is a candid of a friend I am going to email or post to the web really worth storing as a 79mb TIFF in addition to the smaller web copy?).
My question is: am I one of the only ones who do this? Are most discussions of what file formats and color spaces to use aimed at pros selling prints or shooting professionally? What do you pros do when shooting more casual shots for fun - do you use the same workflow and save to TIFF, etc., or do you try to save space and time and save to JPEG, etc.? I am really curious, because in all of the PSCS2 and Raw books I have read I almost never read about having a different workflow based on the seriousness of the shot - I get the impression the authors convert all their Raw files to 16-bit TIFFs or the like.
Thanks,
Peter
I have been shooting exclusively RAW for a long time now, and constantly read about how people should be converting to aRGB Tiffs for best quality. I have generally been doing most of my adjustments in my RAW converter, and converting to sRGB JPEGs and have been pretty happy with the result. I mostly take candids of friends and family, and some travel and landscape as well. For my best travel and landscape shots, I convert to aRGB Tiffs (and convert these to sRGB for emailing/web).
I just could not imaging converting all my RAW shots to TIFFs rather than JPEGs - it seems like a huge waste of space for shots that I don't plan to print (is a candid of a friend I am going to email or post to the web really worth storing as a 79mb TIFF in addition to the smaller web copy?).
My question is: am I one of the only ones who do this? Are most discussions of what file formats and color spaces to use aimed at pros selling prints or shooting professionally? What do you pros do when shooting more casual shots for fun - do you use the same workflow and save to TIFF, etc., or do you try to save space and time and save to JPEG, etc.? I am really curious, because in all of the PSCS2 and Raw books I have read I almost never read about having a different workflow based on the seriousness of the shot - I get the impression the authors convert all their Raw files to 16-bit TIFFs or the like.
Thanks,
Peter