Example why to shoot in RAW

[Toogy]

It was right after the ceremony ended, I was rushing to get out ahead of the couple to get the shot of them leaving the church. In my haste I had forgot the camera was on ISO1600, and I had not switched on the Hi-speed flash sync. So I get a TOTALLY overexposed shot at 1/250 sec. F4 @ISO1600.
I pretty much assumed after looking at the shot on the LCD that is was completely blown.
But thanks to be able to shoot in RAW, I was able to save the image. Now I realize that this image is far from perfect, and the dress is still blown out, but the customer loves the image and ordered it for their album.

http://www.digitaliso.ca/IMG_082.jpg

If I had shot this in JPG, there would have been no way to recover it.

[Julé-Anne]

Cool. I like the tones you have in the photo. How did you do that?

[Toogy]

I desaturated it in RAW conversion, not totally B&W, but close, then added the warming photo filter in CS2.

Just to give you an idea, this is the straight JPG out of the camera (just resized)
http://www.digitaliso.ca/IMG_6581-2.jpg

[spencer87]

it's a great shot of that quick moment outside the church. glad you were able to salvage it!

[tim]

Chimping saves photos! Good recovery, I like the shot.

[geofftelforduk]

Wow, thats amazin! It unreal what ya do with RAW!! Looks great!

[tim]

I've done similar things with photos 3 stops underexposed. RAW saves our bacon some time!

[EOS_JD]

We might look and see the errors in the image - all those blown out pixels. But the client's have a very different view of what a great image is. They see a special moment with a creative &W feel to it.

It's a great conversion Toogy. I delete images like these normally..... Not now!!!

[verty]

wow pretty good save...

i have shot in RAW tho but when i open them in Photoshop it doesnt give me any options to do anything different with the raw file.. and also in Photoshop it says the file is a JPG and i am shooting in pure RAW mode.. what is the go with that?