I hate when family members ask me to send them raw photos because they “don’t mind that they’re not edited.” I DO.
Jan 20, 2021
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I’ll regularly take pictures when I visit family or they visit us with my phone and I’ll send those to whoever, no problem. But when I take pictures with my camera, I want to edit them. I’m gonna colour correct, edit out undesirable little bits, crop it possibly, I’m gonna do shit to it before I want anyone to see it. But inevitably there’s always someone who asks to be sent the pictures and it’s always the same convo.
Them: can you send me those pictures you took?
Me: Sure! I’ll hopefully have them edited in the next few days and send them as soon as I’m done.
Them: oh that’s ok! I don’t need edited pictures. Just send me them now.
Me(in my head): OK. BUT I CARE. I DON’T WANT YOU POSTING MY UNEDITED PICTURES ALL OVER YOUR FACEBOOK AND TELLING EVERYONE THAT I TOOK THEM WHEN THEY’RE DARK AF OR JUST UNFINISHED BECAUSE THAT MAKES ME LOOK BAD. internally screaming
Me(out loud): yeah sure, as soon as I can. (Has no intention to actually send unedited pictures, I’ll just edit them and send them anyway)
Edit: to clarify, I shoot raw+jpeg and those jpeg are what I don’t want to give out. They are typically unsaturated, dark, and even slightly crooked. I will pull light out, colour-correct, and crop images as well as remove chromatic aberrations before I want them posted to social media or shared to other family members. Images taken on cameras to not look like pictures taken on phones. I do not share those jpeg files before editing. Not to mention they’re just very large.
And for more clarification on why I shoot in both jpeg abs raw, Honestly, I just like to have both just in case. I lived in Japan for a few years and got like gigs of amazing photos… and then windows 10 installed itself on my computer without permission and I lost about 95% of it.
Ever since I’m crazy over cautious.
Editor’s note: This post was also published here and the author wanted to stay under a pseudonym.
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6 responses to “I hate when family members ask me to send them raw photos because they “don’t mind that they’re not edited.” I DO.”
Slow news day so time to raise this post from the dead?
I would also stay under a pseudonym if I had to admit that I lost 95% of my pictures due to an ” unpermitted ” Win10 installation ?
No one who is going to see your family’s posts is business you’re going to lose unless you are still in the pan handling like and share panhandling marketing mode, let the people who couldn’t care less about your tweaks enjoy what they will and get on with your life
Well, I feel this could’ve gone into more depth…like this wasn’t even an article.
RAW? Most people who do not have camera that is RAW capable don’t have the app to edit the files.
Photo editing is a passion and profession to me. Regardless of whether I use camera or phone for photography, I do post photo editing to get rid of unwanted object or light exposure before uploading or sending it to anyone professional or personal purposes.