PictureCorrect.com: 🍰 How Photography is Like Baking a Cake

Picture this…

You’ve spent all morning baking a delicious cake, waiting for it to cool… you’re about to start covering it in silky-sweet frosting…

Photo captured by Szabo Viktor; ISO 100, f/2.2, 1/60s, 35mm.

(Your friends will be over soon and you can’t wait to let them try your latest creation)

Glancing across the kitchen, you take note of the mess you’ve made.

There’s flour all over the counter…

The lid is off the salt…

Or is that the sugar?

Nope… Salt…

Then you realize… You mixed up your containers and put half a pound of salt into your cake instead of sugar!

There’s no time to bake another cake… Maybe you can drench your salt-cake in syrup or honey to try and sweeten it, or start troweling on extra frosting until you can’t even taste the sponge…

But you’re out of luck…

Cover it up all you like, but no matter what you do you can’t go and un-bake the cake and put in sugar instead of salt, then re-bake it…

But what’s this got to do with taking photos?

Well this is what you’re doing when you put a JPEG into Photoshop to edit it. You are editing the pixels that have already been baked using your cameras own recipe.

But if you start with a RAW file instead of JPEG, then you have the ability to go back and undo the whole “baking” process so that you can tinker with your original cake-mix, adding or adjusting the original recipe from scratch until you hit a winner.

Photo captured by engin akyurt; ISO 400, f/4.0, 1/125s.

The moral of the story?

Shoot RAW, don’t trust your camera to do your baking for you :-)

And what do you do once you’ve captured a great RAW file?

You run it through a Photoshop workflow that makes your photos POP.

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