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I’ve been working as a portrait photographer in business for myself for almost a decade, and in my experience the overwhelming majority of photogs aren’t giving access to their RAW files except in very, very specific situations.
I really don’t think this is a new trend. I think it’s just smart business. They’re not the client’s RAW images, they’re the photographer’s.
Ah this is perfect you can enlighten me then.
How are you a photographer trained in the art of capturing a moment with appropriate focus, lighting, timing, and framing providing a service to me?
By not providing me that moment in its purest form.
If I'm hiring you to photograph me not to be my digital artist. Or at least offer both.
By not providing the RAWs you're literally providing a restriction in my access to the moment I hired you to capture.
If I designed a web site for you and then when you tried to move your hosting to someone else and said "Oh sorry that web site is only provided as part of my services." And forced you to create a whole new design to host somewhere else. It's quite plain to see that's manipulative business practices.
In my view it comes from an insecurity of photographers that they can't compete with photoshoppers but the reality is I'm paying you to use your skills to capture the moment correctly. Frankly idgaf how good your Photoshop skills are. Especially now with A.I. "authentic" photos will become all the more valuable to people.
RAW files don't look like what your eyes saw. RAW files more often than not look meh at best compared to the actual memory of what happened.
A part of photographer's job is to match how the photo looks like to how you remember the thing looking
Hmm 🤔 that's fair but I think more often than not it's not what the photographer remembered of that moment but down to common practices with color curves and histograms in Lightroom or something.
I like your idea but I think it's more of a post-render is more like what you remember.
However you can't use your own editing skills to get the picture to how YOU remember it or want it when it's already in someone else's version.
Which fine. Like you never got to SEE yourself and that's why you hired the photographer.
My issue is that I would be happier hiring someone if I didn't have to use their awful makeup filter mode photos that don't even look like we're real people.
if your hired photographer doesn't respect your "I'd like the bare minimum post processing please, just do a basic grade to make it look pleasing to the eye and leave it at that" then never hire them again.
I'll go apeshit on my own personal photos but when it comes to working for somebody I'll always try to use my skills to make their vision real, when I work for someone it's not about me