I always shoot in RAW. It can effectively give you a second go at setting some of the camera controls after shooting. Even if I immediately convert an image to JPEG, I still want to save the RAW original.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I always shoot in RAW. As well for the reasons @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool gives, I also like to play with the sharpness of an image which is much easier in RAW.
I don't, though, keep RAW files. Once an image is processed it's done, I almost never go back to one.
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I always shoot in RAW. It can effectively give you a second go at setting some of the camera controls after shooting. Even if I immediately convert an image to JPEG, I still want to save the RAW original.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I don't, though, keep RAW files. Once an image is processed it's done, I almost never go back to one.
Nothing extraordinary, just a pretty scene on the golf course!
A bit of ‘Kandinsky’:
Cropped tightly with maximum ‘smoke’: