Why Your RAW Files Look Flat (And How to Fix Them With One Focused Workflow)

Why Your RAW Files Look Flat (And How to Fix Them With One Focused Workflow)

I’ve been standing in cold water before dawn for twenty years, and if there’s one conversation I still have at every workshop I run, it’s this one: “My phone takes a better photo than my camera.” I hear it from beginners, from people who just bought a serious mirrorless kit, from folks who drove three hours to catch a golden hour and came home with a folder full of dark, muddy RAW files that looked nothing like what their eyes saw.