Supercharge JPEGs with Secret Camera Settings
Posted: August 04, 2020
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Shooting images in RAW format has advantages such as the ability to adjust the image quality in post-production software, but there may be times that using JPEG is the better choice. Even though the camera uses its own settings to determine what will give the best quality image, it may not always work out that way. With a few tweaks, though, you can use lesser-known camera settings to make your JPEG images turn out great.
Simon Ringsmuth, contributor to Digital Photography School, shares how to supercharge your JPEG photos using secret camera settings.
Shooting pictures in RAW definitely has its
advantages, but there are plenty of good reasons you might want to shoot using the JPEG format as well. It really comes down to personal preference, and both types of file formats have their pros and cons.
One of the biggest assets of the RAW format is that you can adjust your images as much as you want in programs like Lightroom or Luminar. Whereas the lossy compression algorithms used to create JPEG files leave much less room for post-processing flexibility. For this reason, to get the most out of your JPEG files, there are some important settings in your camera you should learn and customize to get your photos looking their best.
When you use RAW, you have access to the full data readout from your camera’s sensor. None of the data used to create your image was tossed out by your camera to compress the image and save memory card space. When shooting JPEG, your camera makes a series of determinations on the fly. It calculates what it thinks are the best values for various settings to get a pleasing photo almost like following a recipe to bake a cake. You can tweak that recipe to get the final output to be more customized to your taste. Doing so can be extremely helpful in many different photography settings.
Read the entire article,
Secret Camera Settings that Supercharge your JPEG Photos, on
Digital Photography School.