wedding-photography-denver Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 How much 'work' should one put into an image to 'perfect' it? I want to know what, approximately (in minutes and hours), is reasonable to apply to either one wedding shoot of say 500 images, or one shot? This is an image with softening etc. (time of 3mins 40secs until I hit save).<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted May 9, 2004 Author Share Posted May 9, 2004 oops again<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_rubenstein___nyc Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 At most one can give you guidelines and concepts, since I don't know how fast you work. Generally, it makes sense to do a quick edit to ditch the clunkers, then for the remianing set of proofs just fix gross errors. Save the "perfection" for pictures that are going into albums or are going to be enlarged. Special effects are up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberwolf1 Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 Put as much work into it as you want to keep your reputation. A friend of mine takes about 30-40 seconds per shot to do simple darkness/lightness adjustment. I would certainly 10x the time to make certain "artistic" shots improved and professional. I would not image soften all the images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelb Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 You should put in as much time as you need to have the image be the best you can do as Timber put it. However most photographers are overly critical and see more flaws then the subject. Time must be used wisely, I tried this with your picture I like it hope you do as well.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted May 11, 2004 Author Share Posted May 11, 2004 Michael, thanks for the redo. What did you do for that skin, and how long does it take you? Also do you apply this to a full set of shots from an event with ladies (if you don't mind sharing)? What you did was really clean and I know she will love that (incidentally, so do I). Thanks again for all the responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelb Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Michael On a response to another question someware else on this forum someone made referance to a program called neatimage. You can download a free home version at www.neatimage.com I plan on buying the pro version wich allows for queing multiple images to process. This image that you like took all of 30 seconds to do. Pretty neat eh! I just finnished a shoot for mothersday and this program was well recieved as it realy reduced the detail of the moms faces. ( My wife loves it as well)Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelb Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 I forgot to add that this program is originaly intended for noise reduction. Just select a skin area in the profile screen and sample it than aply that to the image you can increase or decrease the setting as well. Play with all the features and you will see what you can get away with. The pro version ships with a photoshop plugin as well. I hope I wont get in everyones bad books for flogging some software oh well !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted May 13, 2004 Author Share Posted May 13, 2004 Michael, thank you for the advice. I have used neat image before, only I kept it for product type shots (narrow minded i guess). I now see this is a more usable tool than previously seen. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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