How do we go from a really good digital image to an amazing, jaw-dropping, knock out image? Some pictures actually are shot well enough to stand up on their own with proper lighting, backdrop and flash equipment in portraiture studios. These tools are rendered useless outside in nature photography or off site locations. All this aside, we're going for the best image possible and to get that you should be shooting in RAW.

If you're serious enough about your photography, you should shoot in RAW. Here is some background information about RAW and a an explanation for the reasoning. I shoot with RAW+JPEG. The jpegs are good for immediate viewing purposes so I don't shoot in just RAW.

After you've got "the shot," which looks better than the others you took (I'm alluding to taking more than one shot of your subject and getting different perspectives, angles and exposures) you are now at Read More