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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 10 months 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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[–] Igelkott2k@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know anyone who would hand over unedit files or RAW files. I know a number of photographers who would not be happy with pictures being reused and have even sued people for making copies of wedding pictures.

My point is, there might be a clause in your contract with the photographer about usage because they own the copyright to your pictures.