RAW vs JPEG

1. Explain the main differences between a raw and jpeg file.

  • A RAW file is a file containing all of the information recorded by your camera’s sensor during exposure.  There is no compression or processing applied to the file by the camera.
  •  a JPEG file is a file that has been compressed by your camera, and does not contain all of the information recorded by your camera’s sensor during exposure.  Rather, your camera has chosen certain information to discard.

2. Which file is bigger RAW or Jpeg?

RAW files are larger than JPEGs since they retain much more data. A 16-megapixel camera will deliver a roughly 16 MB RAW file. RAW files are read-only files.

3. Can you change a Raw file to a Jpeg, once your photos are the computer? How?

Yes. find and select the raw files on your computer and click open to bring them into Pixillion to convert them into the JEPG file format.

4. If you were shooting an important event would you shoot it RAW or Jpeg? Explain.

i would shoot in Jpeg because i feel much more trustable with the JPEG file.

100 MOST INFLUENTIAL IMAGES OF ALL TIME

The Terror Of War, Nick Ut, 1972

Nick Ut

On June 8, 1972, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut was outside Trang Bang, about 25 miles northwest of Saigon, when the South Vietnamese air force mistakenly dropped a load of napalm on the village. As the Vietnamese photographer took pictures of the carnage, he saw a group of children and soldiers along with a screaming naked girl running up the highway toward him. Ut wondered, Why doesn’t she have clothes? He then realized that she had been hit by napalm. “I took a lot of water and poured it on her body. She was screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’” Ut took Kim Phuc to a hospital, where he learned that she might not survive the third-degree burns covering 30 percent of her body. So with the help of colleagues he got her transferred to an American facility for treatment that saved her life. Ut’s photo of the raw impact of conflict underscored that the war was doing more harm than good. It also sparked newsroom debates about running a photo with nudity, pushing many publications, including the New York Times, to override their policies.

This mainly caught my eye because it just hurt me in some way once I saw the photo.

Fire Escape Collapse, Stanley Forman, 1975

Stanley  Forman

Boston Herald American on July 22, 1975, when he got a call about a fire on Marlborough Street. He raced over in time to see a woman and child on a fifth-floor fire escape. A fireman had set out to help them, and Forman figured he was shooting another routine rescue. “Suddenly the fire escape gave way,” he recalled, and Diana Bryant, 19, and her goddaughter Tiare Jones, 2, were swimming through the air. “I was shooting pictures as they were falling—then I turned away. It dawned on me what was happening, and I didn’t want to see them hit the ground. I can still remember turning around and shaking.” Bryant died from the fall, her body cushioning the blow for her goddaughter, who survived. While the event was no different from the routine tragedies that fill the local news, Forman’s picture of it was. Using a motor-drive camera, Forman was able to freeze the horrible tumbling moment down to the expression on young Tiare’s face.

This was tragic for me to see i was shock because i didn’t see any hand reaching for the kids so i was thinking that something horrible was gonna happen and it did.

Albino Boy, Biafra, Don Mccullin, 1969

Don McCullin

Biafra, the tiny western African nation that split off from southern Nigeria in 1967 and was retaken less than three years later. Much of the world learned of the enormity of that brief struggle through images of the mass starvation and disease that took the lives of possibly millions. None proved as powerful as British war photographer Don McCullin’s picture of a 9-year-old albino child. “To be a starving Biafran orphan was to be in a most pitiable situation, but to be a starving albino Biafran was to be in a position beyond description,” McCullin wrote. “Dying of starvation, he was still among his peers an object of ostracism, ridicule and insult.” This photo profoundly influenced public opinion, pressured governments to take action, and led to massive airlifts of food, medicine and weapons. McCullin hoped that such stark images would be able to “break the hearts and spirits of secure people.” While public attention eventually shifted, McCullin’s work left a lasting legacy: he and other witnesses of the conflict inspired the launch of Doctors Without Borders, which delivers emergency medical support to those suffering from war, epidemics and disasters.

This was just so upsetting on how these kids have to go through this starvation and still survive and next just die.

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