Robert, the ability to generate optimum quality JPEGs or TIFFs from RAW files is no different from shooting and creating pictures from negatives. With almost 50 years of working as a professional photographer I understand light, exposure, and how my camera works, but I shoot RAW most of the time, because I care about the ultimate end-quality of my pictures.

The most notorious pre-digital manipulator of photographs was Australian photographer Frank Hurley renowned for his multiple image war photographs in which he would combine up to four or five negatives to produce a single image. His excuse was that no single photograph could convey what war was about.

Hello Mick i make only photos by JPG so no RAW ? RAW files is for the photographers? who not know how a camera is working by Kelvin , light metering, shutter speed and so on. They aspect a problem, they can fix it in the studio on the computer. So i can never sent the photos to WPP because i don’t have RAW file so who is crossing the line ?

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Mr Stepan Rudik photograph crossed to line from photojournalism to the realms of art and fantasy. WPP was correct to retract the prize. It still amazing when i see some photographs these days, I think how much I would love to see the raw file. Editors should have a good look if something doesn’t look right and ask to see the raw file, and the photographer has to show it. Away from the media spin we still deal in the truth. Lets keep it that way…Leave the art to the artists…