Colors from RAW images look different than “raw” colors in real life and somehow… “ugly”. Of course these files needs post-processing so the colors of those will be better and life-like, but I think there is something about the camera, the sensor… so that RAW files look like that.
I’m looking forward to reading interesting explanations from you guys!
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Real life you basically have “infinite color.”
Computers don’t. You can think of it sort of like a limited amount of digits, where with 2 digits you can represent the numbers 0-99, with 3 digits 0-999, etc. There’s also a maximum amount of brightness a screen can display, and a minimum darkness.
A RAW image basically takes in a lot more information than you can display on your screen, so in order to see everything it has to squish the minimum and the maximum values into your screens limited range. You can then choose to throw away the parts you don’t want (extreme dark areas, extreme bright areas, or the amount of brightness detail) and keep the parts you do to make the image actually look good.
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