We hired a pro photographer to take family photos last summer during a beach vacation. My wife wants to use some of the photos for a Christmas card and she bemoaned the fact that in all the photos, the beach and sky have been pretty much whitewashed out of existence. I told her I could fix them in Photoshop if the photographer could provide RAW versions. We’re talking about 15 photos here. Is this a reasonable request? I assume the photographer still has the RAW versions, but not sure. The photographer in fact has not responded to my request. Maybe photographer feels insulted or something.
This actually takes quite a bit of time to sort out. To get the RAWs, they need to go to Lightroom and check the file name of the RAW image, then go to the RAW folder and copy it for you. X15 and this will take some time, assuming they still have the RAWs easily available. It might be easier to just give you all of the RAW files but then you have storage and sharing issues. You might offer to compensate them for the effort, especially if it’s some time after completion of the shoot.