Frank, But Photography is not just about pressing the shutter is it? was Ansel Adams not as equally skilled at printing as he was at taking photos? Can you imagine trying to process another photographers RAW files yourself? The great thing about digital, is giving control back to the photographer at the processing stage again, which is like having your own darkroom. In the past, would you have let someone print your B/W negs if you had a darkroom in the house? Why leave it up to someone else to interpret how we wanted the image to look? Even with 500 wedding photos, I would rather process them myself and with almost a couple of stops either way of extra information in the RAW file I can get each shot exactly as I want it. Just like a negative there are many versions of an image that can be rendered from one RAW file. Why leave that to someone else to do? For instance, white balancing indoors, sometimes I want a warm finish and sometimes I want a true neutral finish. Capture One makes this process pretty fast and you don't have to pay someone to process the image again should you wish to blend several exposures of the same shot for wide latitude situations.
Nathan Gaydhani - digital imaging & design www.nathan.org.uk -----Original Message----- Subject: [PRODIG] Do Fee for service RAW file processing services exsist? Hi all, I am posting this as a new thread, as it has come up separately in several others relating to digital workflow and I would like to hear other opinions. Are there any businesses/ business models out there handling this sort of Stuff.... ...Outsourcing the image processing may give me some of this precious time back. Am I the only one this sounds like a good idea to? Any other points of view, comments? Regards, Frank Styevko, from Australia =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
