Shooting Raw Is About Insecurity, Not Possibilities

The justification photographers reach for when defending raw files is technical: more latitude, recoverable highlights, adjustable white balance. Sound in principle, largely irrelevant in practice for photographers making personal work rather than delivering to clients with exacting technical requirements.
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Shooting Raw Is About Insecurity, Not Possibilities

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The Life of Others

I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for some reason I was allegedly in…

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Photography Chain of Custody Experiment #2

After mentioning this idea of somehow being able to authenticate the source of a photo, I’ve implemented and tested the idea. Here is an update on the project.

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Paws in the sand

I posted this photo last week as my contribution to Aminus3’s photo prompt: minimal. I thought I might as well explain it here.

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