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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Okay to ask a professional photographer for RAW versions from a shoot? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by n_hawthorne@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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We hired a pro photographer to take family photos last summer during a beach vacation. My wife wants to use some of the photos for a Christmas card and she bemoaned the fact that in all the photos, the beach and sky have been pretty much whitewashed out of existence. I told her I could fix them in Photoshop if the photographer could provide RAW versions. We’re talking about 15 photos here. Is this a reasonable request? I assume the photographer still has the RAW versions, but not sure. The photographer in fact has not responded to my request. Maybe photographer feels insulted or something.

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[–] CinephileNC25@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You’ve got your answer. If you have photoshop you could probably replace the backgrounds easily with their new ai content aware fills.

Normally I wouldn’t advise editing another photographers photo and they may get nasty but if it’s just a Christmas card (and you’re not posting it online)… it’ll probably be fine.