How Mamaratzy Shoots

I shoot RAW  and sometimes Raw- JPeg for multiple reasons.  With the JPeg’s I can quickly open to pull out the ones with bad faces, eyes closed, weird composition and trash it and the RAW file right away. I am not perfect, well at least not all the time!  While I have been shooting solely in manual for over a 2 years, I still mess up, especially when I’m photographing children.  I have a tendency to pay attention to them more and forget my metering. I still will get blurry images or bad images altogether. Last and finally not least, I do NOT want the camera to be any more than the tool that captures what *I* want it to capture. I don’t want my camera having any impact in a negative way against my art. I want full control over the lighting and processing of my picture, which is why shooting in RAW is important.

Shooting Raw allows a photographer to manipulate and change needed colors. (Such a pictures that is BLOWN out or an image that is too DARK)

Reason #1 and my only reason to shoot in RAW

RAW – NO processing done by camera. It is RAW. Uncooked. Untouched. Unprocessed.
Jpeg – Camera runs it’s own processing program on the photo.

Shooting JPEG is aking an artist to paint on a canvas that is already colored over.  There is no fresh clean slate in which to process.