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

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 09:27

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 ?

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 12:37

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 · 10 Oct 2017 at 12:39

Raymond Lin said:
1 set.

A restaurant won’t serve you a live chicken, a raw chicken and a cooked chicken...

What do you tend to give your clients Raymond or offer them ?

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 13:00

Raymond Lin said:
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.

normally works out around 1400 in total i mean ha.

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 13:14

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 .

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 14:50

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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.

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.

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:07

Raymond Lin said:
Only to make it level, might zoom in a little but never lose like 50%, ever. You frame it in camera.

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.

jasonsony735 · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:16

Raymond Lin said:
35/85. Depends.

I did hire the Sigma 35mm and found it just a little to tight for my liking , found myself up against walls in small homes a lot to get the shot i wanted lol so opted for 24mm instead, probably my favorite lens for weddings currently.

jasonsony735 · 16 Oct 2017 at 12:43

Snaggle said:
We just had our pics back from the photographer . 4 of each !! 2 color and 2 b&w . Im happy with the quality etc but would have liked to see more pictures . Its about 250 in total and quite a few i remember him taking are not there

Don't expect all the images a photographer takes to end up in your hands because things do happen that we have no control over, blinking or odd facial expressions that look terrible or even blurred images sometimes if people are moving around super fast in unexpected situations , any photo that fits in to this area goes in my delete bin so my guess this is why you haven't had the other images.

jasonsony735 · 16 Oct 2017 at 12:44

My guess is 1 x normal colour preset and the other one a colour wedding preset , saturated greens and a film look normally , not sure why you would get 2 different types black & White thou ?