It is “RAW” as in “CRW - Canon RAW” (Nikon RAW files come OOC as NEF files - don’t ask me what that is an abbreviation for, because I don’t know - I’m sure I’ve read it, but my brain has relegated that to the part of my brain where sports statistics and other factual, yet personally unimportant data go).

Also -…

She's *very* lean. That takes a lot of work and a very tight diet/perfectly tweaked diet ratios. It's extremely difficult for women to maintain that level of leanness, especially year round. I'd be pissed if my hard-won leanness was minimized. But you know...sexy silly putty women are in!

thank you! I used to get that all the time before I got sick with a disease that caused me to get heavy very fast (I'm cured of that after 5 years of surgeries, etc). But I used to model and got my thinness/lankiness from my dad's side of the family. I remember thinking it was normal to be asked if you were anorexic…

Ackk! Somebody get that woman a sammich or two. Too skinny. Reminds me of this old guy who swims a the same Y pool I swim at who has like a negative body fat percentage. People really think that looks good on anybody, male or female? Don't get it.

Uh, photography - like any other art form - isn't objective, it is subjective. Just because someone uses Photoshop (or if we're talking darkroom - filters, toning, etc.) doesn't make them less talented. For comparison's sake, look at painting (another art form). A painter who paints more "realistically" isn't…

No wonder my body image is so messed up. Either I'm too thin, too fat, too fit, i guess thats what 18 years of looking at made up bodies will do to your self image.

Wouldn't the process depend upon what, for whom, and why they have a shoot?

Don't be a fatty, but don't be strong, either! It's unfeminine.

No, think of the RAW file as a film negative. When you shoot with a neg, you only want to make sure you have all the information there, and the image is created in the darkroom. Its not like shooting old school chromes for a magazine where hardly any retouching is possible. I am a professional photographer and…

But this isn't really about how slender she looks. The point is that every single woman will have "imperfections" of the kind they've edited out here- when we turn our limbs skin will wrinkle, when we jut out our hips something else will bag. That's the case no matter what size you are, or indeed, how good your muscle…

and no veins allowed!

That's why this type of photoshopping is so insidious in causing self-esteem issues. It's not enough to say "well, everyone knows that these things are photoshopped". Sure, but do you know specifically what is being photoshopped?

That's because your RAW files probably aren't dull and boring before editing. RAW files generally look much nicer than any other file format due to the amount of information held in the photograph. It's only when the RAW file is converted into another format like JPG or TIF that it loses quality and looks duller.

You clearly have not met many professional photographers then. There are two sides to shooting today and it is a very polarized topic. Many like to shoot RAW with a very flat and neutral (not underexposed) picture profile so that they can keep more details, while allowing the maximum amount of leeway for colour…

Open one of his photos in lightroom, etc. and set the preset to zeroed out, neutral, etc.. and see what you get.

If they're planning to photoshop the crap out of these models anyway, shooting in a format that will allow for the most leniency in post-production is highly likely. Most DSLR-camera photos, no matter the file format, come out dull and underexposed, so shooting in RAW so that they can push the image as much as they…

It sadly is how the whole workflow is designed these days. Your husband probably doesn't have to deal with clients as picky/demanding as the fashion industry (and the heavy-weights within there), who likes to have as much control as possible up to the last step before publishing the images.

you might be confusing art photography with editorial photography.

Eh, I don't find that my RAW files are dull and boring before editing. Of course, I'm a retouch-as-little-as-possible photographer. I will bump up contrast and color saturation (because I love images with a lot of contrast), but that's about it.

Just FYI on the before pictures - they are RAW image files (large files meant to preserve the maximum amount of visual information possible) which always look greyish and dull before processing. The photographer deliberately lights and shoots in a way that gives the post processor the maximum possible creative leeway…