Like a lot of budding photographers, I was resistant to make the move from shooting JPEG to shooting RAW. For me it was a size issue. Shooting RAW meant I would get less than half as many photos on my CF cards. Because of this, I shot JPEG until this guy came to visit my students. Even then I hadn't planned on shooting RAW. It wasn't until the Secret Service named me the only official photographer for the event that I nervously made the switch. I had been urged by my friend Joe McNally to make the switch to RAW for quite some time; he continually lectured me that RAW allows you to recover a stop of exposure either way, and sure enough, it does. Believe it or not, with the Secret Service yelling at me for getting too close (4 times), the School Superintendent asking for her photo with the President, and my need to sort of supervise ten 7th graders, I didn't nail the exposure every time. But back in Lightroom I was amazed at the new correction power I had. Through the power of RAW I made the above rather lousy photo into one of my favorites from the day. One other note on shooting Presidents: you can't move them into better light unless you're David Hume Kennerly, and Clinton was attracted like a magnet to the worst possible light all afternoon.
You READ that RAW allows you to recover?... didn't you actually HEAR it from someone for months and months and months before you actually switched? Who was that persuasive fellow?
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