Quality jpegs on family

They always say to shoot in RAW format.

For those who aren’t familiar with that, it basically means on your camera settings the photos you take should be in RAW format instead of JPEG. To summarize all the technical stuff for you, overtime JPEG depletes in its quality, the pixels just go away overtime. With RAW that doesn’t happen and you get complete control of colors, tones, exposures and all that stuff when you’re editing an image. But theres a drawback with RAW, and that is file sizes which are considerably bigger. I’m not going to get into details on how I manage to finesse my cloud storage for more photos every time I upload. It takes a long time. Which is why when I tell my friends its taking me hours to upload my RAW images into Lightroom—I, in fact am not lying to you losers, its the truth so cut me some slack.

So when do you shoot JPEG? Honestly, you can still shoot JPEG. It’s just recommended to shoot in RAW. Personally for me I shoot RAW when I’m out doing my street photography and then JPEG when I’m with family and friends. Don’t think yourself less of a photographer for shooting JPEG either because theres photographers out there that shoot JPEG and have presets specifically for JPEGs (jpeg recipes). Fujifilm’s are known for their incredible JPEG quality. Ricoh’s are just the same. Some photographers just never shoot in RAW either (which I’m having a hard time processing but they exist) Basically just do you. Do whatever you think is best for your environment. I personally shoot in both.

When I’m with family I exclusively shoot JPEG. I use RAW when I’m working, shooting with clients, or out for several hours doing street photography. Does that mean my family, in a normal setting are unworthy of RAW? Absolutely, unless they’re paying me. Otherwise I wont be sacrificing extra storage for them and they’re stuck on JPEG.

Below you’ll see some fascinating photos from our last get together via Thanksgiving.

We’re a loud family, full of bright colors (unfortunately for me), music, food, and lots of smiles. Theres too many of us to keep track and as the years progress I’m finding that we’re growing closer and closer. The cousins are realizing that as we age we’re becoming our parents, and to the parent’s horror they see their nieces and nephews becoming a new generation version of themselves. More Millennial and more Gen Z, and it’s great. Shout out to the uncles and aunties. You guys don’t make us who we are today, but you better know you’ve influence us and our decisions in life.

I shoot on an x100f, a Fuji camera which undoubtedly means the JPEG quality is solid. It may not be the best camera in low lighting (especially dim home lighting) but I know how to work around that. There is not once instance where I switch into RAW during my casual candids with family. Again they’re not paying me and to be honest only two of them would know the difference between RAW and JPEG anyways.

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Photos with or without friends