Adam Elmakias is cool. (Release the RAW)

Adam Elmakias has started doing this thing (I’ve been calling it a photo challenge) he calls "Release the RAW” where he releases a RAW file of one of his images and you get to take it and edit it and submit it to the twitter thread and he reviews them the next week on Twitch (and also uploads it to Youtube) and also screen-records himself editing it.

It’s SUPER COOL.

I tried the first couple but have been off of it the last few.

It’s really cool to see the thread of everyone’s edits, but my favorite is seeing his final edits on his Insta and trying to replicate that on my own, then watching him go through it. I’ve already learned a ton just from watching two videos. I also like that I can read the metadata in Lightroom to see what equipment/settings he used to catch the shot.

I think I’m going to start doing blog posts posting my edits and some cool stuff I got out of that week’s challenge.

If anyone reads this and wants to join in, links are below for what you’ll need:

Adam’s Twitter (Where he shares the dropbox link for the RAW photo)

Adam’s Insta

Adam’s Twitch

Adam’s Youtube Channel

-KP