Jpeg vs. Raw File formats

JPEG: stands for (Joint Photographic Experts Group). It’s a standard image format for containing lossy compressed image data. Despite the huge reduction in file size JPEG images contain reasonable image quality. RAW: captures uncompressed data from you camera sensor. Sometimes referred to as a digital negative, you can think of a RAW file as the…

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Masters of photography

Gordan Parks: His first photographs of Washington were portraits of workers on the street and children in a housing project in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. Parks soon learned that photographing intolerance “was not so easy as I assumed it would be. ” Then Stryker suggested that he speak to Ella Watson, a government char woman…

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