Working with different formats available to save your photographic work allows any professional in the field to have many more opportunities to manage their projects with increasing precision, even because, depending on the level of detail needed to shape the image in question, there is an appropriate format, time to invest in editing, specific techniques, taking into account the style itself Etc.
Thinking about all these variables, it is quite normal for some professionals or even passionate about photographic activity to have the preference not to work their portraits in the traditional JPEG format, but in what is technically called raw or RAW image. it is in this type of file, has exactly the same level of information as that captured by your camera, without any compression and therefore possible loss of quality to optimize the file.
- With a better understanding of the concept.
- It can be conceivable that this would greatly improve the quality of the work of anyone interested in editing their photographs.
- However.
- This is not the way to discuss work policies with independent professionals at Reuters.
- One of the world’s largest press and photography agencies to a extent instituted about two years ago.
- The UK-based company banned photographers from sending RAW files.
The main complaint of the company’s board of directors in a statement delivered at the time to a journalist from the photo world site PetaPixel was based primarily on two aspects: saving time with less recourse to editing techniques and greater fidelity to the actual message conveyed in the photographs:
“As eyewitnesses to the events covered by dedicated and responsible journalists, Reuters Pictures must reflect reality. While our goal is photography of the highest aesthetic quality, our goal is not to interpret current events in an artistic way.
At the time this decision was made, large-scale communication was provided more specifically to employees who were already working with Reuters via email with the following wording:
“Hello, I would like to transmit a requirement note to our freelancers due to a change in politics in the world. In the future, do not send photos to Reuters that have been processed from RAW or CR2 files. If you want to shoot in RAW, it’s okay, just have JPEG at the same time. Just send us photos that were originally in JPEG format, with minimal processing (cropping, level correction, etc. ).
And do you like working with RAW better or do you prefer the usual good JPEG?Leave your comment!