Flashbacks of intently staring at my window slowly swaying with the wind while I tried to convince myself I just made it move.

Helaas pindakaas…

Fucking hell I wasn’t prepared for the existential questions when I entered this thread.

Nederlander?

This used to work for me but these days the only way it works is if I pace myself with a big glass of water in between each alcoholic drink. The “chug a liter before bed” only somewhat helps now, but barely.

Crazy taxi???

Only thing coming to mind is the catacombs in Paris and stuff like that.

I’m not American and I have Scottish friends and visited many times, but still if I ever do the accent it’s because I’m taking the piss, there’s no way I can do it even 10% accurate.

Right it’s still reeking of the usual LinkedIn vibe (“my infinite wisdom will change your life!”) but at least it’s factual stuff and humorous.

https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk?si=eJNyVIc2Lbt6nOVa

Yeah sounds about right, I mean they covered Africa by Toto lmao.

Is it true what they say about eating lots of pineapple?

A little bit of Erica by my side.

This was a meme from /r/thathappened, they’re implying it’s fake, but I’m not sure why since as far as I can tell this did happen, and I’m not surprised one bit by it very on brand for Dutch police.

Prosciutto?

Free and instant weight loss, can’t complain.

Can’t believe I actually thought I could fool them. French family though, when they found out they just let me smoke at my window lmao.

That’s the emo version.

Sure there are, they’re just much higher effort and require to know how to work diffusion, reflection, lights etc. Probably need to hire at least one grip to help on the shoot. Price will be much higher.

As long as you make it clear beforehand that’s what you want, then the photog can decide whether or not they’re ok with it. I’m also a pro and personally I would love more jobs where I only have to deliver the RAWs as like the other guy said editing is what takes the vast majority of my time on most jobs, but I certainly also understand the other side of the argument.

Another way to think about this: if you were a chef and someone came to your restaurant and asked for the raw ingredients so you can make the food yourself, I don’t think many chefs would allow that either.

Sometimes, you have to/decide to use techniques which might mean that the RAWs are pretty useless unless they also go through the specific post-process you had in mind while shooting.

With that said I know that many of my colleagues can be total dickheads in particular when it comes to the niches that deal with end-user stuff like family portraits, weddings etc, so I have no troubles believing you’ve had bad experiences.