How many of you are shooting sports in RAW ?

cosworth wrote in post #4972131
I find there are shots in my sports port that I REALLY mess with in post. Helpful to have RAW there.

Now when I shot in Club Med as an event shooter, I shot jpeg. It was space, time and the rpicter software. I simply did zero post on the shots and sold them as fast as I could. A long time ago in a galaxy far away.

Now with Lightroom, I could shoot events in RAW and not worry too much. I really could have used it back then.

Wow, Thanks for the responce. I just shot a tree with snow on it - through my office window in RAW . opened it in light room and pressed auto tone. Way nice. Will shooting raw help compensate for minor exposure issues ?

Thanks, Paul

Paul S wrote in post #4972223
Wow, Thanks for the responce. I just shot a tree with snow on it - through my office window in RAW . opened it in light room and pressed auto tone. Way nice. Will shooting raw help compensate for minor exposure issues ?

Thanks, Paul

It wont compensate but you can make that adjustment in LR or CR.
1 stop either way as far as exposure generally and the whole K range for WB.

Personally I never do. Jpeg is fine for me and our clients. So except for additional time, I don't win anything with raw. To be honest, only about 5% of my stuff is shoot in raw, and even those 5% is never sport or any other editorial.

cosworth wrote in post #4972131
rpicter software.

PRINTER software. My typing skills are weak.

If you think that is good, try working with jpeg in the raw editor in CS3..now there is a treat for you.

We're talking about that. jpeg/ACR = Adobe Camera Raw. Works great, but you have lost flexibility.

I always shoot RAW + medium JPEG now. So many clients want the JPEG files and I don't like the speed, but that's what I do. For really important work, RAW is the best for PP.

I shoot sporting events, and specifically a lot of gymnastics. We end up with anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 images per weekend event. We definitely shoot jpeg, and horrors, small fine at that! Anymore quality is simply not needed to sell prints up to 11x14 to parents that can't tell the difference. By shooting in a small jpeg form, it allows us to finish shooting a meet and have it uploaded by Monday after. If we can't efficiently get images to the net for parents to view, we lose sales. This means no post-processing, and deleting any bad shots on the fly. That way when we get home, we dump to the computer and set it up to load to the net.

All that being said, for other personal or professional work I shoot RAW. The flexibility in the post-processing is critical if you have a great shot and want to tune it up.

Good advice as well. Choose RAW and jpeg size/quality against your desire to use up processor cycles, possibly overnight even.

archaeoman wrote in post #4972196
For those shooting RAW, what quality JPEG are you saving as well?

Just RAW. I'll convert the images I need to .JPG when at the computer.

cosworth wrote in post #4973915
Good advice as well. Choose RAW and jpeg size/quality against your desire to use up processor cycles, possibly overnight even.

Time for more flash cards

That's true! I have now over 20GB for each event. With the 40D taking a lot more memory than my old 20D, and the 5D with RAW, a 4gb card gives me only around 220 images. So, at a wedding, I can shoot 1000 pictures, but need at least 4 4 gb cards. But for sports, that's a 1-2 hour event, I just need to take around 400 images. But I'm not a pro for sports, just take pictures of my kids running around.

SuzyView wrote in post #4977082
That's true! I have now over 20GB for each event. With the 40D taking a lot more memory than my old 20D, and the 5D with RAW, a 4gb card gives me only around 220 images. So, at a wedding, I can shoot 1000 pictures, but need at least 4 4 gb cards. But for sports, that's a 1-2 hour event, I just need to take around 400 images. But I'm not a pro for sports, just take pictures of my kids running around.

Any body have any issues settting the camera to
S Raw?

AdamJT wrote in post #4973892
I shoot sporting events, and specifically a lot of gymnastics. We end up with anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 images per weekend event. We definitely shoot jpeg, and horrors, small fine at that! Anymore quality is simply not needed to sell prints up to 11x14 to parents that can't tell the difference. By shooting in a small jpeg form, it allows us to finish shooting a meet and have it uploaded by Monday after. If we can't efficiently get images to the net for parents to view, we lose sales. This means no post-processing, and deleting any bad shots on the fly. That way when we get home, we dump to the computer and set it up to load to the net.

All that being said, for other personal or professional work I shoot RAW. The flexibility in the post-processing is critical if you have a great shot and want to tune it up.

Very similar setup for us. We shoot hockey, basketball, volleyball, dance and baseball. However, we use large jpg's (1D MkII). Sometimes the only image we've got of their little angel is where they're occupying 1/4 of the frame and they want an 11x14. We print on site (no uploading to websites), so the extra time for PP would be an issue. Storage would also be something to consider (we archive everything).

Absolutely everything else is shot in RAW.

Paul S wrote in post #4977300
Any body have any issues settting the camera to
S Raw?

Haven't tried it yet, my 40D is new. But I'll give it a try since you brought it up. I haven't been to many sports events lately. I mainly shoot soccer and it's winter here.