One of the biggest days of your life is approaching… It could be your wedding, engagement, maternity session, senior portraits, child’s first birthday… whatever the event the same holds true that it will only occur once in your lifetime. The photography industry is flourishing and clients are overwhelmed with options. Do you use a shoot-and-burn photographer? A friend who is trying to get “into” photographer who will offer you a discount? A professional who has been in business for xx years? It’s overwhelming not only to clients but also to photographers who are trying to succeed in a market that often times feels overly saturated.
The best way as a photographer I can help you decide whether you should hire me, a photographer friend of mine or someone completely different is to educate.
One of the common myths I have found is that a photographer’s job is done once we put our camera down. I have heard many times questions such as: “Why do you need to edit my images?” “Can I purchase the unedited images?” “Well _____ will shoot my images for $xxx and give me the images to edit on my own, why won’t you?” To answer all the above questions: A photographers job is not done when we flip the power switch on our camera to off. We are artists and part of our artistic process includes editing.
Editing takes more time and effort than anyone who has never experienced the joys of the process can comprehend. We white balance, correct exposure, add some fill light, sharpen, remove a zit or two, add a texture, and do countless other items behind the scenes to provide you with stunningly gorgeous photographs. Not that you aren’t beautiful, you are, but there’s a huge difference in straight out of camera (SOOC as it’s known in the photography world) images and edited images. Editing takes a good image and makes it stunning.
Don’t believe me? Look for yourself!
A few of my photography friends donated some before & after images so we could illustrate to you just how important the editing process is to photography. They say seeing is believing so scroll down and look at the stunning images. I have no doubt that after seeing these images you’ll never again want unedited images.
A very special Thank You to a few of my best photographer friends for donating images to this blog post:
- Kristen Brown-Bates, KML Creatives
- Grace Wolf Photography
- Michelle Stowers Photography
- Elizabeth Miller Photography
- Tim Miller, Shoot – Edit – Love
For Photographers:
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