FAQ :: EDITING PROCESS

One of the questions I frequently get at sales meetings is "How are the final images edited?" From my adventures working in several different photography studios before I started my own, I have learned that this is an excellent question. While nearly all wedding photographers provide a disc of images with a production release, sometimes those files are all in color so that black and white or other manipulations are an extra charge, sometimes they are preview-sized so that large prints have to be ordered directly through the company. Sometimes a lot of post production time is devoted to each photo and sometimes the disc provided has unedited images. So what do I do?


The disc of images you get from Render includes full-size, high-resolution files that can be printed BIG anywhere you choose. All of the images go through exposure correction (which ensures one image isn't drastically darker or lighter than the next), color correction (which makes the tints natural-looking, your skin isn't warm and rosy in one photo and bluish or orange-ish in the next), and given a tone curve to pop contrast according to each image individually. The result of that process is 'natural color' -- what you see above on the far right. From there, some of the images are converted to black and white like the center image. Finally, some of the images are processed with fine art color like the image on the left.

At your final consultation, you get some say-so in what your day ends up looking like. You decide what percentage of images you'd like in natural color, in black and white, and in fine art color -- for example, 70% natural, 20% black+white, 10% fine art. You can even specify between several black and white styles or request a certain fine art color that you'd like me to use. I often list the fine art color and black and white choice used at the end of my blog posts.

So, to answer the editing process question, your images are fully color and exposure corrected, given a custom contrast curve, then presented in a mix of natural color, black and white, and fine art color images. You can leave it up to me to decide what fine art/black and white styles and ratios to apply, or you can tell me exactly what you want to see.

Peace