RAW Image Format = AWESOME

[julio24]

I would like to suggest that people with higher-end cameras capture their photos in RAW format (instead of jpeg). There is SO much more information stored in RAW format images, it's incredible. You can literally almost see through clothing if you tweak a few parameters in photo shop (you can then save it as any image type you wish). If you're not familiar with this format, research it! I would also love to see photographers make their RAW files available for download, so that anyone can tweak them and have fun with them.

A fine example would be your typical bikini shot. In standard jpeg format, you can only alter so much. If shot in RAW format, you could basically see right through that bikini because there is just so much more information to work with.

Thoughts?

[Mudbug]

My thoughts are the photos would be removed from One Click Chicks
for Rules violations.

17. DO NOT post or request photoshop enhanced "X-ray" style photos.
18. DO NOT post or request photoshop / edited fake photos.

We really prefer that the photos are like they come out of the camera with
the exception of maybe adjusting the lighting and cropping or blurring the face.

Mudbug

[brunettesrule]

I was just reading about this, and I see two additional problems:

1. RAW as a format - I think that by definition, you cannot upload a RAW image to a web site as an inline viewable that others can look at.

2. Raw large file sizes - RAW images do not have the kind of built-in compression that JPEG and GIF have. As a result, they would be pretty huge. And people would have to download them, and suck up extra bandwidth to check out an image that they might not really like anyway.

3. Lack of IR capture - a RAW file does not capture any special wavelength, like infra red. Instead, it's specialized sensors pick up combinations of red, green, and blue, to combine into a single full-color image. Supposedly, you could put an IR lens filter on that camera and then take the shot, but there is a chance that the sensor in the camera will use its built-in IR filter to block what your lens allows in.

[julio24]

Although I'm aware of the drawbacks of raw (can't upload until converted, large files size, etc.), I think it would be cool for those people who shoot in this format to upload the raw files of their best photos to a file sharing site so that others could open them up in photoshop and play around with them.