{"id":19701,"date":"2017-12-01T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2024-08-16T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:44:10","slug":"the-power-of-raw-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of RAW on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-1-shooting-raw-ef02becb7002\">Sebastiaan de With<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lux.camera\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-1-shooting-raw\/\">updated link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-1-shooting-raw-ef02becb7002\"><p>RAW files store more information about detail in the highlights (the bright parts) and the shadows (the dark parts) of an image. Since you often want to &lsquo;recover&rsquo; a slightly over or under-exposed photo, this is immensely useful. [&#8230;] It also stores information that enables you to change white balance later on.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Now this is where most people get confused: apps that don&rsquo;t support RAW will still load the image. However, they just load the low resolution preview instead of the full-resolution image. <em>And they won&rsquo;t warn you<\/em>. Believe it or not, the built in iOS Photos app doesn&rsquo;t support RAW[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>RAW Caveat 2: RAW Skips Apple&rsquo;s Magic<\/p><p>Apple&rsquo;s stock camera app does a lot of cleanup behind the scenes. This is &lsquo;magic&rsquo;. Yes, magic. The imaging processor in every smartphone and camera does some magic. This is the kind of stuff that is a closely guarded secret. [&#8230;] Sounds wonderful, but this isn&rsquo;t always great. Sometimes the noise reduction is aggressive and destroys fine detail; other times the grain can be pleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2018-03-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-2-editing-raw-79f60983302f\">Sebastiaan de With<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lux.camera\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-2-editing-raw\/\">updated link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/the-power-of-raw-on-iphone-part-2-editing-raw-79f60983302f\">\n<p>Remember how I mentioned 90% of my edits are just to make the image look like what I perceived with my naked eye? Selective color adjustments are perfect to let you tweak individual colors so they look &lsquo;right&rsquo;. Don&rsquo;t get too caught up in wild adjustments; try to make it faithful to the mood and look of what you shot.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>With a split tone adjustment, you assign a tint to the highlights in your image and a tint to the shadows&#x200A;&mdash;&#x200A;preferably contrasting tints like yellow highlights and blue shadows. This gives the image a color contrast, which is visually interesting and pleasing. It changes the entire look!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re editing in Adobe Lightroom, it&rsquo;s automatic perspective correction tools are incredibly powerful[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastiaan de With (updated link): RAW files store more information about detail in the highlights (the bright parts) and the shadows (the dark parts) of an image. Since you often want to &lsquo;recover&rsquo; a slightly over or under-exposed photo, this is immensely useful. 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