Wedding photographers : How do you go about editing your photos ?

jasonsony735

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Just want to know how other wedding photographers go about editing there wedding photos after a wedding

I myself use Lightroom and edit all the best images from the day in this program and if I need to smooth the skin I move the images over to Photoshop.

I also tend too give my clients 3 versions of the photos , Normal corrected tone photos , Black & White and my own sytle wedding preset. normally works out around 700 photos in total that I then put on a memory stick for them to go and do as they please. If they want prints or an album I charge extra.


What do you other wedding photographers tend too do ?
 
Seems odd to give them three versions of the same photo, I'd expect you to be selling your style but it is an interesting approach.
 
In my experience people like to be able to pick from processed and black and white versions of wedding shots - personally I'd like minimally edited as well as processed versions but the average person probably doesn't care and just wants something that looks "ritzy".
 
Don't get me wrong its a pain in the *** doing 3 versions but my clients have all given me 5 * and they all mention they are very happy because I have given them so many photos to pick from so it works well for me but yes it does add an extra 2 hours to my work flow....

I take it you guys just give them 1 version ? and mix it up
 
jasonsony735 said:
What do you tend to give your clients Raymond or offer them ?
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You give them your best images.

Around 600 or so, there are no duplicates, mix of colour and black and white.

700 photos with duplicate three times comes to like 250 photos per wedding…seems awfully low.
 
jasonsony735 said:
normally works out around 1400 in total i mean ha.
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It's a mix, some photos are better in B&W so they are black and white. Case by case basis.

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isnt the point that they chose you because they liked your style

editing three times seems like a lot of wasted time
 
I only really post my best images obviously so I guess thats why you get more work but I do like too other the extra photos and it looks good when you pass the images over to the client.... its about making the client happy right.

Cheers Raymond thats great too how you edit cheers .
 
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Raymond Lin said:
It's a mix, some photos are better in B&W so they are black and white. Case by case basis.

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Do you ever crop the photos Raymond or keep them as camera shot them ? currently edited a wedding at the moment so will post some images here as its nice to get some feedback from others.
 
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Do you ever crop the photos Raymond or keep them as camera shot them ? currently edited a wedding at the moment so will post some images here as its nice to get some feedback from others.
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Only to make it level, might zoom in a little but never lose like 50%, ever. You frame it in camera.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Only to make it level, might zoom in a little but never lose like 50%, ever. You frame it in camera.
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Cool , what lens combo you tend too use for the day ? I am currently rocking Canon 24-70mm 2.8 II & 24mm Sigma 1.8mm for indoor shots like yours above and normally shoot wide open for single person shots and open up to around 2.8 - 4f for couple shots , always shoot at F8 for big groups.
 
Horses for horses.

20/24/35/50/85/100/135

I have all the primes above and would use most if not all of them in the day.
 
You want to present a consistent style, that is what you are trying to sell. Otherwise just skip the editing altogether and just outsource it.
 
jasonsony735 said:
Just want to know how other wedding photographers go about editing there wedding photos after a wedding

I myself use Lightroom and edit all the best images from the day in this program and if I need to smooth the skin I move the images over to Photoshop.

I also tend too give my clients 3 versions of the photos , Normal corrected tone photos , Black & White and my own sytle wedding preset. normally works out around 700 photos in total that I then put on a memory stick for them to go and do as they please. If they want prints or an album I charge extra.


What do you other wedding photographers tend too do ?
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Everyone has their own way, but for me, people book me for the style of work they have seen on their friend's wedding photos that I shot, or stuff they saw on my pages. It's your signature you're selling, what if they uploaded and shared on their social networks an image that wasn't edited using your LR preset? Nobody would recognise your "signature", if that makes sense, as it is your brand image.

Still, it's always interesting to hear how others go about the same business, just goes to show how varied everyone can be!

I do 98% of work in Lightroom. The 2% comes into play when I have a burst of images of people and in every one of them different people are blinking, so i export to Photoshop as a smart object, layer up the eyeballs from each respective image and use the base image to plonk those peepers onto and save only that image, which then imports back into Lightroom.

It's always good practice to never change the aspect ratio by cropping outside of the standard when giving clients the end result. Your clients may want to print a particular shot, and if the aspect ratio isn't standard, then their prints won't look right! If I'm ever cropping for a cinematic look or something, then those images will only be posted on my own pages and the client gets the standard AR ones. Cropping whilst keeping the aspect ratio original is perfectly fine however.

Also, a full screen Lightroom layout with the secondary display enabled in it works really well I find. I don't know how big your monitor is, but if you have an ultra-wode display, then you too may find it extremely useful. Simply press F11, then size the secondary window how you want, enable the grid view on that and minimise the scrolling thumbnail grid on the main windows. This is how mine looks:

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I'd agree that's the biggest thing (for wedding photographers) - the style of image is what connects with people and is your usp.

Also agree that it's interesting to see how others go about achieving the end 'product'.

mrk said:
Everyone has their own way, but for me, people book me for the style of work they have seen on their friend's wedding photos that I shot, or stuff they saw on my pages. It's your signature you're selling, what if they uploaded and shared on their social networks an image that wasn't edited using your LR preset? Nobody would recognise your "signature", if that makes sense, as it is your brand image.

Still, it's always interesting to hear how others go about the same business, just goes to show how varied everyone can be!
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