RAW files

You probably wonder WHY your photographer will NEVER give you the RAW files from your session. As photographers we have heard it all.. ‘I know how to edit photos, ill edit my own’ ‘can we have a discount if you dont edit the photos’, ‘Can you shoot our session but our photographer friend can edit them’…. no, no, no and more no!!!! For a photographer offering RAW files is us handing over half a job… do you go to Woolworth and ask to buy a cow when you want a bottle of milk?  Of course not, even just reading that