The answer to this question would be no. Upon hiring a photographer you're hiring them for the work that you see in their portfolio and trusting them to give you a similar outcome to the photos they have in their portfolio, the photos that meet their artistic standards as a photographer and you possibly becoming apart of that portfolio. Which the images you are seeing in the portfolio are not SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) or just the average or even the greatest photos from that particular session that they don't put much thought, care, and effort into... They are what the photographer feels that they've carefully selected and what is the absolute best of the greatest photos they captured from that session that they then take the time to process and hand edit into high quality images, works of art to them, expressions of who they are as an artist for other to view. They may have small straight out of camera comparisons of the before and after of their work so you can get an idea on what they ultimately transform their photos into and what form of art they are into and capable of. When you ask for the raw images it makes the photographer feel as if you do not fully trust them to select the absolute best photos of your session and present them to you and they don't want to hand over something they aren't even proud of for the world to see. No matter the amount of time put into editing each photo there is a certain type of emotion that's gets put into each one of the images making sure every little detail of the photo is perfect to them. You grow closer to the people in the images without actually growing closer to them if that makes any sense... By putting that emotion and care into making sure each image is perfect to you and presentable to your client and looking at the same faces over and over again for hours making sure every detail on them is just right. Every single photo they put the time into is really a work of art to them. The raw image is nothing but an incomplete product, just a small ingredient. There are two ingredients when it comes to creating a work of beautiful visual art/portraiture: the capturing of the moment, and the post production result. For example; If you were to go to a restaurant and the chef were to cook you something but just brought you out a plate of uncooked raw food when you paid them to provide you a freshly cooked meal. When you buy a painting from someone, you don't get all their rough drafts that were drawn up before the final product was produced. When a writer writes a book or a paper, you don't get all the crumbled up paper and rough drafts they wrote out before their book was published. When you buy a movie, you don't get the scripts or every single out take or blooper that was made before they got the right take for each scene. Photography isn't work or money to me, it's art and raw emotion and me being able to express myself and others through the images I get the opportunity to capture of them for their loved ones and everyone to see. The reason more pictures are taken than what I include in my final edits is because I shoot in manual mode as most professional photographers do. So that means I have to make rapid real-time adjustments which require test shots, changing up the composition, and solving any lighting challenges along with taking burst shots to ensure there is no one blinking, talking, moving their hair out of the way, looking elsewhere to fix something or for any particular reason, etc. There isn't just some magical setting on the camera that ensures you get the perfect shot every single time no matter the conditions you're working with, although that would be nice. But then I'm sure everyone would want to be a photographer if that were the case. I take so many excess shots to make sure I'll be able to create for you a perfect image from that setting even if it does end up just being one shot of that particular set of images. So that does not mean all of those excess shots are what will be included in the final product when it comes down to selection for production, they are what helps in being able to create the final product.