Understanding RAW Photography The Expanded Guide – David Taylor gives expert advice with useful hints and tips provided by professional photographer Steve Watkins. It shows techniques for clarity, illustrated in full colour with the aid of clear diagrams and charts. The RAW file format is digital photograohy’s equivalen tof a negative in film photography. It contains untouched, ‘raw’ pixel information straight from the digital camera’s sensor, which must be processed to produce the final result. Understanding RAW photography is a comprehensive guide written by a professional photographer which explains the procedure from the start of a photo shoot through each stage of post-processing your image to ultimately displaying it in print or on screen.