{"id":48372,"date":"2022-10-11T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elevatephotography.com\/blog\/?p=48372"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:40:46","slug":"making-your-photos-look-amazing-culling-editing-and-retouching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elevatephotography.com\/devwp\/blog\/making-your-photos-look-amazing-culling-editing-and-retouching\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Photos Look Amazing!\u00a0 Culling, Editing and Retouching"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our main goals at Elevate Photography is to provide you with images that you will be proud of for many years to come.\u00a0 The process of editing photos and making them look their best has become a much bigger part of the photography process in the digital age.\u00a0 It has also made the process more complicated and we want you to understand the steps we go through to get you amazing images.<\/p>\n

Culling<\/b><\/p>\n

The first thing we do is cull the wedding.\u00a0 This is getting rid of all of the images that are unusable or duplicates.\u00a0 During a wedding day with two photographers, we are taking an average of around 300 images per hour.\u00a0 That is a photo every 20 seconds all day long! With that many images, you are bound to have photos that feel like duplicates or just don\u2019t come out.\u00a0 You are hiring a professional because we nail more photos than we miss, but we aren\u2019t perfect and technology isn\u2019t perfect either. Some examples of photos that don\u2019t come out for technical reasons are an out of focus photo, a photo with too much motion blur or an unproperly exposed image.\u00a0 We are also photographing real people that blink right when we take the photo or may not always be happy with that awkward photo of an unflattering angle or their awkwardly open mouth during a conversation. We want everyone that sees the photos to be excited about them and not ask \u201cwhy did they take that photo of me!\u201d.\u00a0 We never want you or your guests to be embarrassed.<\/p>\n

We never limit our numbers and will always provide any photos that \u201ccome out\u201d during the wedding day.\u00a0 We also don\u2019t want to take the chance of a poor image getting printed, so for this reason we do not provide all of the original files.\u00a0 Part of why you are hiring us is to go through all the images for you (it takes hours). We want you to be happy and will always work as hard on making the best selections possible as taking the pictures themselves!<\/p>\n

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Editing<\/b><\/p>\n

After culling, the photos go to our production artist for the editing stage.\u00a0 We spend about a day of work editing the average wedding. Most of this work is done in the software program Lightroom.\u00a0 There are many things we do at this stage to make the photos look good and consistent. Here are the general steps:<\/p>\n