RAW File Conversion

RAW processing involves individually adjusting colour, exposure, saturation and contrast and outputting high quality jpegs suitable for client delivery, for printing purposes or general viewing or posting to web.

Many colour corrections can be streamlined with a little effort on the front end of shooting to custom balance the colour of any photographic situation. It’s less labour intensive to be able to process one image and apply similar enhancements to several more images just like it. This is very important for not only continuity between all photographs, but a major time saving during the processing stage of the images.

Digital capture files can’t be processed properly if they’re overexposed. When it comes to quality, nothing replaces proper exposure for getting the tones to reproduce with all the dynamic range possible. Taking a little more time to expose the image properly will save time processing files at the computer.

Our charge for raw file conversions is based on time spent and can vary depending on the quality of the incoming RAW files. The price per file will vary between $.50 per file and may be up to $1.00 per file. This is based on an $80/hour digital rate.

Jpeg colour correction involves all of the same steps as RAW processing (individually adjusting colour, exposure, saturation and contrast and outputting high quality jpegs suitable for client delivery) when the original file is a jpeg.