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TCR4x4

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Just had an email from Getty asking for a RAW file to send to a client.
Is this usual? Certainly never heard of it before.
 
Sorry can't talk from personal experience but know photographers have handed over contents of memory card from a shoot to the hiring agency for them to produce the final shot/advert/whatever. Maybe this is a similar circumstance? If they paying for your image, it's ok isn't it?
 
Yeah, I dont mind doing it, just never come across it before. Equally as strange is the subject matter really won't benefit from any enhancements from the RAW. A full res JPG would have looked the same.
 
Just as a matter of interest.. How did they know you had a RAW and not shot in jpg?
 
TCR4x4 said:
Just had an email from Getty asking for a RAW file to send to a client.
Is this usual? Certainly never heard of it before.
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its quite normal, I have sent Getty many RAWs of my work for their clients, a lot of publishing houses want the RAW as they want to process it how they see it and make sure the colour space etc is correct for print if thats where it ends up.
 
Ok cool. Well they have it now anyway.

They just asked if I had the Raw.
The photo is a close up of a zebras stripes, so they can process it all they want, it ain't gonna look much different. :-D
 
Just to add, we at Getty Images editorial also call the original JPEGs "raw" files.
 
Im pretty sure they meant the NEF file, but thats just confusing. Why not just say full res original jpg
 
It's just the terminology we use (and saying raw is easier than saying untouched jpeg!)
 
In capitals, so presumably they wanted the NEF. They confirmed receipt and didn't mention anything so must be ok.
 
inkiboo said:
It's just the terminology we use (and saying raw is easier than saying untouched jpeg!)
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It might be easier for you (Getty) to say but when you mean jpeg but say raw, it's going to be very difficult for others to understand correctly - why not stick to the terminology that everyone else uses (how many threads have there been on TP arguing the merits of shooting in raw vs. shooting in the 'other' raw?) :thinking:
 
weybourne said:
It might be easier for you (Getty) to say but when you mean jpeg but say raw, it's going to be very difficult for others to understand correctly - why not stick to the terminology that everyone else uses (how many threads have there been on TP arguing the merits of shooting in raw vs. shooting in the 'other' raw?) :thinking:
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In editorial we hardly ever use RAW files so the terminology works for us :)
 
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