I know it’s a bit odd to have the first blog post on editing. It is one of the last step of the process however a super important step and most people seem to underestimate or overlook it! A photographer’s work does not end after the wedding. Perhaps a better title I should give myself is- Marketer-Planner-Stylist-Photographer-Editor.
You can guess this blog post is going to be about the “Editor” part of the job ;)
One misconception people have is that the images comes straight from the camera, like I could just directly hand people the memory card at the end of the night and that’s the job done (I wish it was that quick!) Well technically speaking yes it comes from my camera, however NOT the final images that I spend hours on editing. As a photographer I hope my pictures come out well and composed but some are just not as vibrant or warm, contrasting enough or the skin tone needs fixing.
I was going through my hard drive the other day and I found this styled photoshoot I did 6 years ago! The model Dina is gorgeous and I knew with the experience I have now, I must revisit and re-edit these! Left images are straight from the camera and on the right are processed images.
For me the “Editor” part takes the longest time to do in my position as a “Marketer-Planner-Stylist-Photographer-Editor”. People usually think wedding photography is too expensive because they only see the hours that are put in during the “PHOTOGRAPHER” role of our job.