For me, shooting RAW is a pain but what keeps me doing it (besides the ability to recover blown highlights, as mentioned earlier) are two things:
-- With 12 to 16-bit images you have more leeway to adjust levels without causing areas of smooth colour variation (especially the sky) breaking up into visible bands due to separate adjustments being made in different parts of the spectrum.
-- You can change the white balance. This is not usually an issue in aviation photography, but there were times when I was shooting planes at sunset and my camera's automatic white balance tried to neutralise the warm colours. Shooting RAW gives you the opportunity to bring them back.
As regards Brian's question about colour space, my advice is different - shoot and edit in Adobe RGB because it has a bigger colour range than sRGB and some publishers insist on it, so shooting in sRGB might lose you a publishing opportunity. If you convert from sRGB to ARGB you won't gain colour information that isn't there and it might look like you are trying to pull the wool over the publisher's eyes.
For JP purposes all you have to do is convert to sRGB as the last step before uploading.
-- With 12 to 16-bit images you have more leeway to adjust levels without causing areas of smooth colour variation (especially the sky) breaking up into visible bands due to separate adjustments being made in different parts of the spectrum.
-- You can change the white balance. This is not usually an issue in aviation photography, but there were times when I was shooting planes at sunset and my camera's automatic white balance tried to neutralise the warm colours. Shooting RAW gives you the opportunity to bring them back.
As regards Brian's question about colour space, my advice is different - shoot and edit in Adobe RGB because it has a bigger colour range than sRGB and some publishers insist on it, so shooting in sRGB might lose you a publishing opportunity. If you convert from sRGB to ARGB you won't gain colour information that isn't there and it might look like you are trying to pull the wool over the publisher's eyes.
For JP purposes all you have to do is convert to sRGB as the last step before uploading.
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