scottgaulin

Never shot raw professionally, not once, ever. Just because someone doesn’t do what you expected doesn’t make it bad nor them unprofessional. There’s lots of different paid types of photographers and some workflows you seem call substandard are actually the standard in certain forms of photography. As a newspaper photographer our role was fast, small file size and unedited other than minor exposure adjustments and cropping. Newsprint color sucks and BW wasn’t much better. Jpeg was perfect, most of us got it right when the finger hit the shutter not hours later on a computer. All of us were paid with full benefits.

The DK effect is fully apparent in thinking there is only one way to do something and only one acceptable output that works for everyone and every style of professional photography even those one has never experienced

You’re not charging anywhere near enough. $3000-5000 minimum and that was almost 15 years ago. Anything less and it’s not worth it. I used to get $1000 just to shoot back up photojournalist style BW shots of whatever I wanted as a second shooter.