Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the feedback.

I believe our settings are RAW and superfine. We are not shooting in .jpg due to the loss of quality in compression. Although it may be minimal shooting at 4000 x3000, why not get the most out of the photos?

I got some reccomendations that it may be better to shoot indoors with a couple of lights that we can control the intensity of. I think we will try this next time.