Flash photography

Kimberly-Durecki wrote on 7/16/2024, 6:17 PM

Hi,

I have a questions. My photographer shoots most of my shoots using flash. He used to do HDR ( this is for real estate) and I would help in editing when needed for HDR but I have never edited FLASH photos and he claims it is so very hard. I now have outsourced an editor and want to send him a sample to see how he edits FLASH but my photographer is giving me a VERY HARD TIME in sending me a few non edited flash raw flash shots to send to him. My photographer edits all the FLASH photos himself and then sends them to me. Why would he do this? Can someone who shoots FLASH for real estate be so kind as to send me some raw examples I can send out to see how my editor will edit them. Thanks for any advice.

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Gid wrote on 7/18/2024, 12:26 PM

@Kimberly-Durecki Hi, I spoke to a friend of mine who's a pro photographer. he says flash photography is just a photo taken with a flash or flashes, there's a lot more to it than that but the basics are 'a photo taken with a flash'.

He says about why you're struggling to get the raw photos is maybe your photographer sees them as his property, that'd depend on your agreement with him,

or as my photographer suggests, who went into great detail about, it could be he composites several images to make one good one, using the flash in different positions & overlaying the images, only he knows what he did at the time & so handing over 'a raw file' isn't always as easy as that. RAW files aren't just a different kind of photo + you're outsourcing that part of the process to someone else, basically cutting into his job description.

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Kimberly-Durecki wrote on 7/18/2024, 12:51 PM

Hi, Thank you and yes I do know about flash photography. My photographer works for me and the photos are property of my company. He always edits them before sending me the final product. I just wanted the raw image of one photo ( which he ended up giving me, there were 9 flash for one photo) and I wanted to send it off to a editor I use when we are swamped to make sure he can edit flash. I did and he did an excellent job. I just wanted to save additional outlets for editing incase my photographer could not get them to me as quick as I needed. Just a back up plan is all I wanted it for. Thank you for your input and I will now close the thread as solved.