I think I'm in love with RAW.

I've been reading some photography stuff online and I found that taking raw pictures is the way to go if you want really high-quality images. So when I went to SM City mall, I decided to take a bunch of pictures at the Christmas Village to practice close-up photography and to try taking pictures in raw.

Well, taking raw images takes some getting used to. For one, because raw images are huge, they can take up most of your memory card storage. Mine is 8gb but I can only take 190 photos with raw when I could take up to 800+ images with jpeg. Second, I had to get used to using Adobe Lightroom since Adobe Photoshop couldn't read raw images unless I have Camera Raw, which I don't.

I'm still learning how to use Lightroom but I can see why a lot of photographers prefer using it. Organizing is pretty awesome using it than Photoshop. Editing images is pretty easy, too.

The images above were processed using Lightroom, and I think they're pretty decent. They're more alive now than before. And since I all the image data are present in raw photos, I don't have to worry about losing quality even if I edit again and again. With Photoshop, the more you edit, the more you lose image data. That's why they call it destructive editing.

Anyway, if you want to learn more about raw, you can check out these sites: Digital-photography-school.com and Photographyconcentrate.com.