RAW Photography Workflow
I’m both a photographer and web designer so I use Lightroom, Photoshop CS4 and Bridge almost daily.
I love Photoshop but when it comes to photography, I think, hands down Lightroom is your best choice for importing, managing, editing and exporting your photos.
It doesn’t matter what type of digital camera you have.
It doesn’t matter what type of computer you have.
It doesn’t matter if you print at home, at a retailer or upload online. 
Maybe you want to build a book of photos or a website or export to Facebook, Picassa, Flickr or others? You can copyright and/or watermark and make your color, curves, sharpening adjustments inside of Lightroom without the complexity of Photoshop!
I’m sure I’ll hear from the super advance CS4 techies will say you can do more in CS4 but for 90% of the world Lightroom will cover everything you need! I only use CS4 for advanced photo editing or being creative with a poster/flyer or color blends.
RAW Rules!
As Rick Sammon says “RAW RULES” so always shoot RAW. Cameras are basically small computers. When you take a photo it’s taken in a RAW format. If your camera is set to JPG, the camera then adjusts/color corrects and compresses your image into a JPG format. This is why an advertised 10mb camera shoots 6-7mb images!
I have too much money and time invested in taking my photos so don’t let your camera convert and compress your images into a JPG! Set your camera to RAW format. Yes the images are larger but the results are so much better!
How to shoot HDR photos (High Dynamic Range)
Recently I gave a presentation to our local photography club on how to shoot HDR Photography and inside the presentation was a section on the importance of using RAW image format. Not only is RAW important with HDR but RAW image format gives the photographer so much more control over their image color/exposure corrections.
View the presentation outline with some photos below or you can download a copy of the presentation in PDF format here: HDR Photography & RAW Presentation – Web
Download the resource sheet and links here: HDR Presentation – Resource Sheet
Bob Randklev
http://BobFoto.com