The Power of Raw

Saving your images in the camera's raw format instead of JPEG gives you much more flexibility to produce a photo as you saw it. In the glaring midday sun of the Augusta, Montana, rodeo, that extra editing room allowed me to reveal all the information in the highlights and shadows of this barrel racer.

Raw image straight from the camera

Raw image after editing with Adobe Camera Raw

You can learn how to get the most from your camera's image in Shooting & Processing Digital Camera Raw Files that begins October 26 at the Lifelong Learning Center in Missoula, Montana. Click here to register.