Post processing vs. no-Post processing
Feb 14, 2022 13:24:52 #
1200 shots per week??? That's approximately 170 per day. Are you a commercial photographer? Or just use the spray and pray approach?
--Bob
--Bob
Nickaroo wrote:
Great. I shoot about 1200 shots a week at the very least. So, can I Dropbox them to you and let you edit to Your Heart's delight. LOL.
Feb 14, 2022 13:27:11 #
I shoot pics for pleasure and commercial use. I've used Photo Shop and Lightroom for years. I can quick process photos that are shot for family and friends. I can process commercial shots; product shots for catalogs that require delicate retouching, group shots at meetings that are published. I've even put people into pictures they weren't in. Each shot presents a different challenge and I enjoy doing both. I like that Photoshop lets you dodge and burn photos.
Feb 14, 2022 13:34:18 #
Feb 14, 2022 13:36:27 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
"Lucian" I don't do any thing but fix a picture, call it what you want.
Feb 14, 2022 13:37:43 #
Great question, Elliott. I enjoy post processing, or as my wife would call it, "Working on my pictures." I have found (as has anyone who has ever done post processing), that it is a skill, which arguable, requires as much talent as taking the image itself. Why do I enjoy it? I see my photography as much more art than photo journalism. Therefore...I'm allowed to take a very strong image from my camera, and bring it to its best look in Photoshop. I can crop where I want, work with levels, remove distracting or unwanted aspects of the image, etc. And what is left is something that I created from scratch. It's not like the old days where I had to send my images to a lab and they're going to screw them up because their chemistry is off. I control all that now, and that control, from taking the frame, through post processing, to how I want to display the image, is all me. That is very rewarding, especially when people view my work and comment on it.
Feb 14, 2022 13:39:08 #
Feb 14, 2022 13:43:25 #
JD750 wrote:
It's a necessary evil. I prefer to be behind the camera rather than behind the computer.
Ditto
Feb 14, 2022 13:48:35 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
Two different challenges, Does it mean a good photographer has less processing or is it the temperament of the person. A poor print needs work or delete. Again it's our own choice.
Feb 14, 2022 14:11:49 #
BigOldArt
Loc: Seminole, FL
elliott937 wrote:
I am simply very curious to learn from my fellow members ... how many enjoy post-processing as much as taking the picture snap? Post-processing ... like a lot? Post-processing ... don't like it at all?
I enjoy the whole process. Amateur comes from the Latin verb amo, amare. to like.
I take pictures of interesting phenomena, special events
My most common post-processing is to crop to a particular aspect ratio and/or to remove extraneous parts.
Less often I adjust contrast, brightness, etc.
Frequently, I compile pix and clips, with text pages, etc to make videos.
I also like showing some of my pix, clips, and compiled videos.
Do you include assembling into a slideshow or video post-processing?
Feb 14, 2022 14:14:12 #
rmalarz wrote:
Bill, in reference to your Famous Photographer quote, "The negative is the score, and the print is the performance.", I posted a quote from the same photographer earlier in this thread, "You don't take a photograph you make it."
--Bob
--Bob
Yep! Saw it.
When in high school, my journalism teacher taught me about making photographs and crafting prose for easy mental digestion. Mostly, she shared resources full of classic images and stories from newspapers and magazines of the 20th century. I promptly started devouring every book and magazine on photography that I could afford. I read my parents newspapers daily. As we were fond of saying back then, "Feed your head" was a mantra for everything.
Beyond that, was lots of practice...
Feb 14, 2022 14:15:04 #
I'm with Longshadow…only the ones I'm gonna use for something get PP. Shooting RAW then at least some PP is required or else the shot looks terrible. Most of my output goes to the blog and it's either 16x10 or 1x1 cropped (the former so the exported shot works as a desktop image on my laptop). After a shoot…I go through and 1 star the ones I'm going to process, run all of those through DxO for noise reduction then crop and PP as needed. Just about everything gets run through Topaz Sharpen before exporting instead of using the built in LR stuff since the AI is way smarter about it than I am although I do check several of the available models to see what works for a particular shot. I've got Topaz DeNoise but DxO works better IMO. Also have Gigapixel…but for web output the doubling that you get in LR Enhance is about as good as Gigapixel is and a whole lot faster.
Feb 14, 2022 14:48:14 #
I enjoy post processing as much as I enjoyed darkroom work back in the film days. In the camera the picture is taken, in PP the picture is made.
Feb 14, 2022 14:50:45 #
elliott937 wrote:
I am simply very curious to learn from my fellow members ... how many enjoy post-processing as much as taking the picture snap? Post-processing ... like a lot? Post-processing ... don't like it at all?
Not at all. It doesn’t have the same magic and mystery of the wet darkroom. I post process very little, and my post processing skills are rather meager. 🙄
Feb 14, 2022 15:36:36 #
I strive to get it right in the camera w/o the need for PP. I've seen way too many photos on this forum that are way overcooked and don't look real.
Feb 14, 2022 15:38:16 #
Saves and improves most photos I want to print or otherwise share.
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