I Shoot JPEG

In this video I do some landscape photography, but I switch over from RAW to JPEG and I do not edit my photographs in any way, shape or form. They are all taken straight out of camera. It was a fun challenge and I actually learned a lot. Enjoy.
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[@akusirkkala271]

*Jared Polin intensifies*

[@daviddowling9830]

Who?

[@ghosface353]

@@daviddowling9830 The guy who build his youtube precense around his hate for JPEG and that he shoots Raw. I actually have recommended video from his channel in my sidebar. You might also have it.

[@AtomicArcherGuy]

Hahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Yes!

[@daviddowling9830]

Olyphantastic thanks,I know who he is,most painful utuber around.

[@serso5812]

I was about to post *angry jared sounds* but your take is also really nice!

[@ismaelrojas01]

Thomas Heaton: I shoot JPEG Rawnomore Tony Northrup enter conversation Frow: left conversation

[@danielcedenorodriguez9938]

Man I gotta say, I really like your videos when you're on your own, but Everytime you interact with Brendan o Greg... I just love it! Great video, great images as always.

[@arvidstorli2501]

When I started photographing, I used a lot of the unforgiving pos - film. You really had to understand the light meter in the camera. Then digital came and I became more and more lazy. I could fix it in post production :) But when I started shooting for a local newspaper, I had no time to do that afterwork, and I had to shoot Jpg, it was like starting all over again, I had to be a lot more accurate. Good learning definitely.

[@lilblingking1491]

Why do you call film a pos? I understand it was a difficult tool to use back then and a lot of older photographers don't understand why it's still being used today, but I think to give it such a label is quite extreme :(

[@scallen3841]

@@lilblingking1491 Film is what I learned on back in 1980 , you had to have a skill level behind the camera . Getting it right regardless of format reduces editing time .

[@fraufuchs9555]

That's interesting. I've learned to photograph on film already in the digital era with a 50 years old camera my husband's grandfather gave me. No light meter, manual focus. I've learned a lot, photography became a great pleasure. When I started using digital cameras I found post processing very boring, that's why I continue to do everything on camera.

[@arvidstorli2501]

@@lilblingking1491 Pos - positive film, or dias..

[@scotty4418]

Loved the second image and hats off (no pun intended) to Jodie for setting the challenges to you both. Been good to see the both outcomes today

[@matthewwilkes6065]

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode Thomas, going through a bad patch with photography too so this is a different way to encourage me to try harder. Thanks again for the awesome content. All the best.

[@GhostTheory]

Your photos always amaze me.. you seem to be able to rise to every challenge and always take incredible images. You are an inspiration :)

[@samb5506]

Hey Thomas! You're killing it with your videos from Patagonia: a lot of fun to watch! This one is great too, love the small challenges like this, forcing to try stuff or (re)-learn what the camera can do!

[@theyetiinoz1478]

Thank you Thomas, I thoroughly enjoyed that. You are at your absolute best when you are out there taking photos.

[@GhostDancerMA]

Love the second shot! Composition, color, everything... Superb.

[@mountainlandscape]

Blown away by the second photo you've captured, it holds so much emotion! fantastic :D

[@CristanBoerg]

It's always great to see you finding compositions! Fascinating!

[@kats428]

Love that you guy's have been given a challenge fun to watch😀

[@philg6757]

Look at all the great friendships you`ve made Thomas. Brendan,Greg and the hundreds of other from your workshops. Wouldn't`t have that just staying in the UK,great bonus. Oh yeah, you get to shoot a bit as well. Loving your work brother.

[@weschilton]

Great shots Tom! This is what a true photographer can do when he knows his gear. No excuses, just got in there and got the shots. Well done.

[@robcarr1899]

Stunning..... Stunning.....Stunning photos Tom. That tree photo is Awesome. I don't do RAW so i know i can do stuff like this. Thank you for sharing. Stay safe guys.

[@potentialadventure]

Great video Thomas! You look like you are having fun again. Your heart is in it, and your passion.

[@martynsmithson7533]

Loving the collaborations with Greg and Brendon. Keep it coming.

[@gregsnell]

The second Glacier shot is amazing dude!! Noice.

[@koolkutz7]

Yeah I like that ones too, lovely tones.

[@PhilChadwick]

Smort

[@johnsholian4318]

Well done Thomas! The last two images turned out quite well with the 2nd one being my favorite. I could see how you’d have to be more dialed in to your composition without the benefit of post work.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Amazing video. The three of you have great chemistry. The second glacier image is well worth the challenge!

[@stoneval]

I really like this episode for the idea to leverage creativity and experience by the given restrictions! Very nice addition to the channel!

[@simon_patterson]

Terrific images. You're an excellent photographer and educator.

[@Blackboarddiscover]

You seem to be in love with your filters. 😍 Love you Heaton.

[@RickNP90X]

Learned something new (again) about playing with the camera settings. Cool! Loved the glacier face as it felt like it could be on the "Game of Thrones!"

[@jbinvesting]

I like the camera settings under the images that you added, nice addition to the vlog👍🏾

[@ellyelzinga01]

Love the glacier picture! Also amazing colors on that tree! So hard to believe that it's actually fall there, when it's spring here in Holland, everything starts to bloom or is blooming here..

[@pausejulien8566]

Beautiful as Always ! Amazing location

[@MsWouto]

That feeling when Thomas' JPGs are a billion times better than your craziest RAW edits.

[@serso5812]

The power of the master photographer. =)

[@-grey]

This was fun. I shoot JPEG exclusively on Fuji, because I hate editing. It's really refreshing to hit the shutter and be done. I wouldn't go back to raw now, unless I really needed highlight control. But really a graduated filter works fine.

[@liborkrupica5686]

Thomas great video, thanks to Jode !!!! It made you work harder. The glacier image is very nice.

[@huwalban]

The desaturated image is absolutely awesome, and the pick (no pun intended) for me :) I think it is good sometimes to force yourself to think differently and try new approaches. It is good to see though that your approach to photography overall, i.e. getting it a right as possible in camera, has served you well for this challenge. Perhaps a lesson to all of us that sometimes lean on software just a little bit too hard. All the best.

[@rangerjay7971]

Being new to photography, I learned a lot from this video and your others, thanks.

[@flashhog01]

"That's easy, I shoot Canon", so true!

[@DavidSenteno]

Master Photographer Thomas Heaton for the win. Beautiful glacier photo.

[@gransha3]

Another great video Thomas thanks. Would you consider doing a video on when and why to use filters. Thanks in advance.

[@bgw500]

Love the beanie.. I need one like that now we're coming into winter..

[@rishirule1]

Love watching u're documentation which very catchy to my mind always inspire me to try this rather Macro

[@TheShoobah]

Fun challenge, it's a creativity boost to have some restrictions. Love the glacier shot 👌

[@BryanDorr]

The desaturated glacier image (second image) turned out well. I love how the blue pops. Good video as always.

[@ThomasHeatonPhoto]

Thanks a lot, Bryan. Glad you liked it.

[@MatthewSaville]

Thomas, I'm so glad that you delved into the Picture Styles for this challenge. I was hoping you would! Even as a raw shooter, I've been fiddling with these settings for 10+ years now. I find that they are incredibly useful, even when shooting RAW or RAW+JPG, because they allow you to push your creative vision closer to its final goal, while you're still in the field. If you do a lot of B&W, you can shoot RAW+JPG and then use the B&W/Monochrome Picture Style, combined with the in-camera contrast and other adjustments, to really help hone in on the ideal tonality throughout the whole image. Canon's Auto Lighting Optimizer is helpful if your GND's aren't enough to fully keep highlights and shadows playing nicely; you can really stretch the dynamic range of the camera to fit a scene, while still separately controlling contrast and clarity. Same thing goes for shooting color, and the "Landscape" Picture style. I always turn my in-camera contrast way down, and the in-camera saturation up a couple bumps, and then fiddle with the Auto Lighting Optimizer (Active D-Lighting on Nikon, and DRO on Sony) until the dyanmic range of the camera matches the DR of the scene. It's a bit of extra work in the field, but it sure helps a ton with getting closer to your creative vision, which allows you to focus and notice small details (and correct errors) that you might not otherwise discover until post-production. I've written a few articles on this subject, and vaguely outlined an entire eBook on the concept too, but I'm afraid that nobody will want to learn my crazy, hairbrained methods haha. It's probably too far-fetched to think that "serious landscape shooters" want to learn "how to shoot better JPGs" ...even though they're actually still shooting RAW. I'll probably keep the whole workflow to myself, I guess. Glad others are discovering its benefits, though!

[@simeonmarkfernandes1423]

I would love to read your ebook. And totally agree with you!

[@obscur_yoann]

Me too I like the way you think ! Please post a link for your ebook. Very interested by that. This video and your comment make me wanna to shoot RAW+jpeg and play more with the picture profiles on my 5DIV...

[@Yamanotefy]

I am not sure if I get you correctly here, but playing around with picture styles may help in pre-visualisation but it certainly affects the histogram in Liveview as the it measures it from that "JPEG" sadly. A real RAW histogramm has been introduced in MagicLantern only as far as I know ... that's the reason I bumped all values down to have the least influence to it although the preview often looks dull.

[@MatthewSaville]

@@Yamanotefy Indeed, this is why it is so important to understand in-camera processing! If you're ever concerned about the histogram accuracy, you can go in the complete opposite direction from what I just suggested, and use Neutral or Flat Picture Control instead, then turn the contrast down too if necessary. This can give a histogram that is almost identical to what a raw histogram might give.

[@Yamanotefy]

@@MatthewSaville Ok, that's what I did first when I got the camera coming from the 5D2 with ML. Certainly I get why people also tweak their settings to better visualise their final output. Cheers mate!

[@DavidSorensenRealLife]

The photograph of the trees is amazing. Well done to create a captivating composition in such a messy forest.

[@V5I5E5W5]

So cool. I have the same Canon camera and have never played around with custom settings. Will have to give it a try. I often shoot in both raw and jpeg simultaneously as raw was too intimidating in the past but I am getting better at post processing now.

[@crainseye8499]

All great images, the second one being nearly perfect. Curious how you would edit them.

[@johnmccann4041]

Those second two are absolutely stunning. (I'd have agonised over the orange tree crop for so long it there's be no light left. Some ideas to nick from you here.)

[@RememberNineEleven]

With Canon jpegs it is advisable to set 'Sharpness' at either +1 or +2 - any higher can produce 'ringing' effects around contrasting areas. Experimentation is the key.

[@gordroberts53]

Thomas and JPG, pick my jaw up off the floor! Outstanding images but I still prefer the flexibility of not baking all the decisions into the in-camera image. Thanks for sharing!

[@supranomicon]

Great video Thomas, I think you definitely have your mojo back!

[@zvenzzon00]

Love the yellows in the "background" in the last one...

[@ScottJWaldron]

That looked like a good challenge for you, nice job! I liked that last image a lot. I don't use JPEG much either, but occasionally I'll do RAW+JPEG so picture profiles do something. A while back I was trying out black & white with this method. With a mirrorless camera it's actually great because the EVF/Screen preview is in B&W.

[@chrisklugh]

More of these challenges!

[@PRCoolBreeze]

Cool photo game to play with photog friends.........I always thought you were a full time photographer, I saw you you today minding the net for Burnley.

[@ThomasHeatonPhoto]

Ah yes, my other job.

[@eclecticjon1019]

You should have shot in jpeg and raw and then edited the raw images. Followed up with a side by side comparison.

[@daviddowling9830]

I agree except no editing either one,teach me about the qualities of RAW.

[@Matt_015_96]

@@daviddowling9830 the qualities of raw are that they are more easily edited. More information is saved and therefore the image can be edited further.

[@JayGunn]

@@daviddowling9830 No point in that. With JPEG all the editing is done in camera and comes out as a finished image. With RAW the camera just captures all the light, you're supposed to edit the image afterward, because the out-of-camera RAW file is going to be flat and dull looking. This challenge is misleading because even shooting JPEG the images are never not edited. All those picture modes and adjustments Tom was doing in the camera menus, they're applying edits like sharpening, noise reduction, contrast, saturation, white balance, etc.

[@MatthewSaville]

Indeed I think that many people would be shocked to find just how hard it is to correctly reproduce certain specific colors and tones in Lightroom, as it is with the in-camera Picture Styles like Vivid and Landscape. In fact, fall color is one area where I feel Adobe just does not come close to what my Nikon can do in-camera, when it comes to brightly exposed backlit Aspen leaves. I've resorted to shooting RAW+JPG a lot, and using the native software (Nikon View NX) to convert the NEF file to a TIF if I can't get the raw file to look like the JPG to my satisfaction.

[@nannyg666]

@@JayGunn "With JPEG all the editing is done in camera..." It's comments like that that I find ridiculous. Yes, JPEG algorithms are applied to make the image usable out of the camera. But there is NOTHING stopping anyone from further editing - and doing so quite effectively. Absolutely nothing is "DONE" by shooting JPEG unless, you the user decide it's done.

[@STWILDERNESSADVENTURES]

Amazing images! So natural!

[@clarkbarrow6750]

Beautiful images!

[@anthonyplancherel8274]

Excellent challenge, great images too!

[@anastasopouloschris2683]

Great pics and sure a fun game challenge 📷 👍🏻

[@JuanFrank]

Patagonia is Beautiful .... 20+ years ago I went to the "route of the 7 lakes" or "Circuito de los 7 lagos" ... in Bariloche in the middle of the spring.... gorgeous... I wish to have the means to go back .... It is so rich in compositions that you get overwhelmed by !!!

[@reneholtslag2297]

I like the video Thomas. In Holland I read an article about you in a magazine.

[@wendynewing8834]

That was so interesting. Your results were great. I can't stop shooting RAW though, every pixel is precious. I felt really sorry for Brendan having to shoot B&W.

[@jamesjohnston6765]

Wonderful little challenge!

[@cooloox]

Hi Tom, in Canon picture styles if you choose monochrome you can apply a B&W filter simulation. There's red, green, orange & yellow filters.

[@DeMolMBP]

That second glacier shot is really awesome!!!

[@DaleEverett]

Great points. Now, how about doing a follow up on HOW TO buy a camera. Really, I follow you and would be interested in hearing how you process the decision of making a purchase.

[@jesse113553]

It’s a testament to Thomas’ experience. What a refreshing video.

[@WaterlandFilms]

great photography, fantastic shots, great place!

[@darksideemt]

Got you shooting like a newb!! Of course you totally pull it off and take great pics still.

[@rodrigomalutta]

The third image is Gold

[@chriss2761]

Mr Heaton you are a legend “jpeg that’s easy I shoot canon’” brilliant!!👍 stunning images Tom 👍 great video you and Brendan work well together my Sunday night is complete 👍

[@ThomasHeatonPhoto]

Cheers, Chris. Glad you liked it.

[@JosephSeagerPhotography]

Nowt wrong with that, loved it. As you know, I don't use lightroom and barely post process stuff. A really accessible video for everyone, showing killer results. Well played sir, not many pros would do what you do. 👍🏻

[@ThomasHeatonPhoto]

Thanks Joe. I'm a little sad you're taking a 3 month break, but babies and vlogging don't go hand in hand. You'll be back in time for the heather bloom.

[@111yohan]

Good to see you back on your feet!

[@dangernba]

Awesome images, congrats. Greetings from Brazil.

[@adamhill1627]

Beautiful photos of the glacier man

[@cgriggsiv]

And again awesome challenge And a very good video on shooting jpeg

[@tjsinva]

You should bring Simon Baxter with you on the next Patagonia trip. He'd love the colors. Rock on!

[@DarrenM]

Nice work T Heat!

[@visb87]

Great pictures Tom

[@gewglesux]

Nice job you two!! Loved this ! Looks like this is a very popular place to shoot... BTW where did u get that warm hat@4:25...I would love to have one for next winter!

[@cotswolddroner7714]

It's not the editing, it's the eye and knowing your camera. You're the man, Thomas. All your shots were phenomenal!

[@dmcd6769]

Great video Thomas . . . loved you're second Glacier shot!! Is there a Picture Style with my Canon that I should be using when shooting in RAW? What do you use? Thanking you in advance.

[@benjaminjohnson4697]

its good that you do what you do. I think a lot of people, myself included consider jpg uneditable. you for sure lost in the spirit of the "challenge" of the competition...right.... filters, in-camera color adjustments...most of the things you'd do in post...but in "pre". but still, I found this video when I was looking for reasons why ANYONE would shoot in jpg and you presented many ways to shoot great pictures under restriction. well done, sir. well done.

[@renagoodfriend-leve9443]

love this, one! can you say what kind of filter set up you have, looks less complex than mine, thank you!

[@petermarquez4527]

You are the Master Photographer!!

[@eygloaradottir4044]

wouldn´t this be PRE processing ? ;)

[@fedecolo2010]

Argentinian subscriber here! Hope you enjoyed your time at El Calafate!

[@BrentHall]

That was fantastic.

[@neklamp2431]

that one of the glacier was excellent!

[@theuktoday4233]

what a challenge, you will have to take photos like in the film days when you had to get it right as many times as possible!

[@stefankuhn6887]

Thanks for this video to you and thanks to Jodie for this challenge! For me it was a very instructive video, because most of tutorials tell you to visualise the final photo before you take the image. With that kind of challenge you are forced to do it by using the dozens of possible adjustments in the camera. 👍🏼😊 Looking forward to next Sunday ...

[@kevins8575]

For many people, using the camera presets or using the camera custom presets is a viable alternative to computer-based post processing. I use Canon's RAW + JPEG and I find that most of the JPEGs are fine for my uses, but as you point out, cropping is a problem since it causes decompression.

[@Robinators]

Cool stuff!

[@MrShuaiGuy]

wow that second one was amazing!

[@ThomasHeatonPhoto]

Thanks a lot, glad you liked it.

[@bikecommuter24]

Next time maybe try a challenge with the1.8 50mm nifty-fifty? LOL "That's easy I shoot Canon" love that line.

[@ironian24]

Excellent as always and loving the fact you shit jpg , I kind of think it is a challenge not to use edit but hey love the fact you did it and great images as always.

[@grahamhobbs3501]

painful

[@ghosface353]

Funniest typo I have seen in while "...you shit jpg".

[@jamesmarko1787]

Make a t-shirt

[@ironian24]

Lmao bleeding phone keypad and fat fingers never mix well. Ooh look at me getting this reply rightly.I think this subject could be my next vlog on my channel.

[@denesvarga5584]

could you make a print of the de-saturated glacier shot? my eyes can't have enough

[@612morrison]

Thomas, as a Nikon (don't know if you can with canon) user I can add filters in the B&W profile in jpeg custom settings ie green, red, yellow ect the sort of filters you would use when shooting B&W film.

[@runemaster96]

Hi Tom, how are you finding the new LEE100 Holder?

[@simonmaney3438]

I assume auto WB, looks like it did a good job. I find one of the most useful things about RAW is being able to adjust WB and tint, especially for things like glaciers. I would be lost without it.

[@tomfoord8860]

Right. Bill Fortney showed me how adjusting the white balance in-camera can set the mood when shooting JPEG.

[@bahlaouiy]

Nice challenge Just a question : wish f-stop bag are you using ? :) is it confortable for your hikes? Thanks

[@hackerblubb]

looks like the sukha to me. could be wrong, though

[@panagiotistsiverdis]

"That's easy! I shoot Canon!" God this line made my day!