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You need to find another wedding photographer. This is YOUR wedding day, and you need to have it your way, not HIS way. Do a broader search for wedding photogr
by ronyeh 13y ago
You need to find another wedding photographer. This is YOUR wedding day, and you need to have it your way, not HIS way.
Do a broader search for wedding photographers, and ask them to give you quotes that include:
* >= 12 MP JPEGs from their digital SLR, processed via Lightroom or whatever process they use.
* RAW files for those JPEGs.
* The right to use your photos in ANY WAY you please. This includes printing physical albums and books for your family. This includes the right to post photos to Facebook without the photographer's watermark. (Still, it would be nice for you to post a link to their website from your wedding gallery.)
That's it! If a photographer cannot agree to these three requests, they do not need your business. This is a matter of good customer service. If they provide you this great level of service, you'll definitely recommend them to other people looking for wedding photographers.
I don't understand the other photographers on this thread saying they'd NEVER give away their RAWs. It would be like a contract web developer only handing over JPEG screenshots of their final product, instead of the source code.
- ronyeh 13y agoFor any wedding photographer that reads this: If YOU were getting married tomorrow and needed to hire someone to be YOUR wedding photographer, would you accept 2.5MP JPEGs as the final product? Or would you demand full resolution JPEGs, along with RAWs so that you can have the full sensor data to play around with forever?