Hey I'm an Art Director for an ad agency. Getty photos aren't usually just "buy" and "download" they usually require a specific usage and are priced accordingly. Most of the time you have to go through <yourcompany and they open an account and invoice.
Looking for photographers I always hunt down their website and if they don't have one, look for the agent representing them. A guy shooting photos for the Washington Post or WSj probably is major league so you should be able to track him down and find his portfolio.
As for RAW photos it's a Canon extension used to import photos from the SD card to Photoshop. Then the RAW file is saved to a folder on the computer or deleted.
In our biz film=photos vid=video pretty much no gray area there.
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