This image was shot RAW and processed as a 16 Bit LINEAL RAW in Adobe Prophoto Color Space with a Custom Gamma 1.0 profile to properly render the extended amount of upper Tones.

Some images carry their message in their lower tones and some do it with their midlle tones and highlights, like this one.

Normal RAW processing spreads the image tones evenly across its Dynamic Range , thus , abnormally ,compressing the highlights and expanding the Shadows , something that will not work well with this type of imagery .
Linear processing workflows , instead ,compress the shadows and devote the rest of the Color Space to Midtones and highlights making it the perfect Complement to this type of imagery ,that results from frontal lighting.
Please click on it to see it at full size and if you like its 3 Dimensionality and would like to know more about this process ,please visit my website at :sigmacumlaude.com or email me at luis@sigmacumlaude.com

The art of Seeing not only means perceiving the esthetic potential of a Scene , but also in recognizing where in it lies its expressive power.

Unless we are able to recognize that , we will not be able to tailor the processing to different image needs ,in order to deliver their visual message ,as we found it .

Do you think this image was well processed as a Linear RAW file?