There maybe other photographers that cringe on the request to give RAW files to their clients but isn't that the same when you got the negatives in the past?
"Hi Andras,
I was wondering if you would (personally) be available to shoot my wedding July 3, 2010. I am actually the brother of Yolande Roemer. You may remember shooting the wedding of Yolande and my brother-in-law Dwayne Roemer a few years ago.
I have always liked Yolande & Dwayne's photos, and I recently found many more great shots going through your galleries. My fiancee and I were looking at your Full Day Coverage package . As a keen amateur photographer myself, I wanted to ask about the high-res digital files included in this package. Can these images be provided in RAW format? I have spoken to some photographers who seem quite reluctant to do this, which on some level I can understand. I think there's some fear that their images will be shoddily manipulated and presented in a way that would reflect poorly on their photography, and of course the loss of revenue on prints.
However, from my perspective it makes me cringe to think that the beautiful files that a skilled photographer with a good DSLR camera is able to create will eventually be destroyed (or at best archived as JPEGs) and the details from my wedding along with them. As someone who likes to manipulate his images and see the maximum beauty that can be extracted from them in the translation from RAW to print, working with a lossy, 8-bit file format that loses a lot of detail and dynamic range just seems a tragedy. My fiancee and I would undoubtedly want to buy some of your own prints, as we quite like your skills as both a photographer and a photo editor. I seem to be so busy these days that it would probably be some time after my wedding before I was able to really sink my teeth into the images to make prints of my own."
I was wondering if you would (personally) be available to shoot my wedding July 3, 2010. I am actually the brother of Yolande Roemer. You may remember shooting the wedding of Yolande and my brother-in-law Dwayne Roemer a few years ago.
I have always liked Yolande & Dwayne's photos, and I recently found many more great shots going through your galleries. My fiancee and I were looking at your Full Day Coverage package . As a keen amateur photographer myself, I wanted to ask about the high-res digital files included in this package. Can these images be provided in RAW format? I have spoken to some photographers who seem quite reluctant to do this, which on some level I can understand. I think there's some fear that their images will be shoddily manipulated and presented in a way that would reflect poorly on their photography, and of course the loss of revenue on prints.
However, from my perspective it makes me cringe to think that the beautiful files that a skilled photographer with a good DSLR camera is able to create will eventually be destroyed (or at best archived as JPEGs) and the details from my wedding along with them. As someone who likes to manipulate his images and see the maximum beauty that can be extracted from them in the translation from RAW to print, working with a lossy, 8-bit file format that loses a lot of detail and dynamic range just seems a tragedy. My fiancee and I would undoubtedly want to buy some of your own prints, as we quite like your skills as both a photographer and a photo editor. I seem to be so busy these days that it would probably be some time after my wedding before I was able to really sink my teeth into the images to make prints of my own."
I had no problem granting Johns request...and he was happy! Isn't that our goal!? Mine is!
Always a pleasure to see your work! Great job!
(08.08.10 @ 11:24 PM)