From RAW to Print

Hav­ing spent many hun­dreds of hours teach­ing image edit­ing and the jour­ney from the cam­era raw file to the fin­ished exhi­bi­tion qual­i­ty print we thought we could offer some­thing dif­fer­ent and very much unique to you. One of the aspects of pho­tog­ra­phy that is fas­ci­nat­ing to see is how peo­ple make deci­sions on how to tease out the nuances of the image and gen­tly guide it through its final stages. There are so many deci­sions dur­ing this process it is quite easy to be over­whelmed by what tools to choose, why you would use them and to what extent you may use them. 

It is one thing gain­ing an under­stand­ing of how to use the tools and what they do, but anoth­er to watch a sea­soned mas­ter at work with your files. This was the whole idea behind this unique offer­ing of ​“Raw to Print”. Even after all your prac­tice and pro­gres­sion, have you ever had a file that you feel you have nev­er real­ly got the most from, or it nev­er real­ly ​‘speaks’ to you in the way that you want­ed it to? This is not uncom­mon and it is times like this that you wish you could con­jure the ​‘genie from the lamp’ to help guide you along the way. We have decid­ed to invite you to send us a Raw cam­era file with an expla­na­tion of where, when and how you made the expo­sure and what your expe­ri­ence was like. After that you leave the rest to us.

Paul Gal­lagher or Michael Pilk­ing­ton will then take you through the entire jour­ney from first open­ing the file to the fin­ished image ready for print. The process from open­ing to final sav­ing will be record­ed and each deci­sion and why will be shared with you so you gain a full under­stand­ing of how and why they came to that deci­sion. To add to this unique expe­ri­ence, your fin­ished image will then be print­ed on a heavy weight fine art paper and then post­ed to you. We are not request­ing that you send us your most chal­leng­ing files, but the one you most desire to hang on your wall and share with oth­ers. A token of your expe­ri­ence and one that you cherish. 

If you have that file, that mem­o­ry that you thought you may nev­er expe­ri­ence in a final, beau­ti­ful print, then this will be the oppor­tu­ni­ty to bring that back to like in the hands of masters!