Art-working

My post production process can be quite simple or indepth depending on the image and what I feel needs to be done to bring out its full potential. Many people ask me what does my photo editing entail. This is a truly difficult question to answer but here are a few examples of what it can mean and there are visual examples below;

adjusting white balance

increading or decreasing contrast

adjusting hue and saturation

selective colour editing

converting images to black & white

applying tones

applying textures

skin smoothing

body shaping

cropping

adding vignettes

opening closed eyes

reducing ‘red eye’

erasing distactions in the foreground and background

applying gradients

‘dodging’ and ‘burning’

removing blemishes

Each image is assessed to ascertain its full potential and so the appropriate post production techniques are applied. At it’s most simple – contrast, colour balance, sharpening and cropping are always applied and so at least 10 minutes minimum is spent on each photograph. What this means is that it would take me over 50 hours to just perform basic post production on a wedding with 300 images. I do a lot more than this to most images and so to get a set of consistent images that I am totally happy with will take me at least 8 days and usually longer as i frequently shoot over 300 images. Please look at the before and after examples below to see just how important this process can be to the visual impact of your wedding photography.