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Post-production in Photography
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A good photograph does not simply happen the moment it is made. What is done to an image after it has been created, during post-production, is just as important. A considerable amount of time and work goes into this process. I shoot traditionally on film - the reasons are explained on this page. After a shoot, the negatives are developed and receive an initial evaluation, where I weed out those images that are, for whatever reason, not quite right. I believe that my clients should not be burdened with images that are not worth considering. I only release photographs which are good enough to carry my name. A client's final choice of images is scanned at high resolution and processed by hand. Every photograph receives sinfully indulgent attention: How a photograph is interpreted - how its tonal range is represented, how much contrast it shows and how bright or dark it is printed - is all about expertise and artistic choice. This has nothing to do with clever trickery, digital or otherwise. Retouching is one of the last and sometimes time-consuming steps in the overall production. This stage is not about adding gloss and glam, but about correcting the inevitable spec of dust or the eyelash that has settled on a cheek. |
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