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| OHCC LIVING | APRIL 2021 | 29 While there are a variety of photo file formats, depending on the digital camera manufacturer, the camera you have can probably save a photo as either JPEG (could be jpg on your computer) or RAW. The RAW file may have a different suffix, depending on the manufacturer. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, who made the standard. Most photos you see online are JPEGs. If you look into the settings on your camera, it will allow you to choose RAW or JPEG, or even flavors of JPEG that have greater or lesser compression, and bigger or smaller files. It will also allow you to choose to brighten or enhance your JPEG photos. The JPEGs are typically smaller files than RAW, sometimes a lot smaller, because JPEGs are compressed. The camera software chooses what pixels of the image to keep. If you are out in the woods somewhere trying to photograph wildlife, and your SD card is small or is filling up, using JPEG will allow you to keep saving photos. Also, the smaller files can be written to your card faster, so if you are shooting in burst mode it might help to use JPEG. But JPEG does not give you as much to go on with respect to "post-processing," a fancy term for editing your photos on a computer. Think canvas vs index card. In shooting RAW, the resulting photo you upload to your computer is really like a digital negative, thinking back to the film days. The image on the computer will possibly look a little dull, and the colors won't pop. But bring the photo into an editing program, meaning Apple Photos, or Photoshop, or lots of others, and you can easily fix all of that, and any other flaws you see can be fixed. Since RAW files are large, if you need to crop heavily, you will still have a big enough file to look good when printed, or when appearing in OHCC Living magazine. You can save it as a JPEG for sending to someone or uploading to social media. The images show setup menus for a Nikon D7200 camera. The camera can take both a RAW and JPEG. It also can support two SD cards, and write RAW to one and JPEG to the other. Bring extra batteries! We are getting closer to meeting in person again. Get your shots! Photography

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