Photography Editing & Post Production.

{Strengths} 

• picking up the photoshop programme quickly 
• Bridge for RAW files was quicker- less time consuming
• taught myself photoshop worked my way around finding variation of techniques 
•  lighting didn't need re adjusting as used all relevant gel lights for colour tone  kept consistant
• found editing the images easy as i went with an instant emotive feeling about the image rather than analysing each in detail, the feeling was important to me so recognising an image with the right feeling was easy

I enjoyed the editing and post production process, having not used photoshop before and having been taught the basics in the IT session I was having to find my way around the programme individually, I was able to pick up techniques easily and with the help of Bridge this aided the time it took in getting the images through post production a lot quicker as the programme was easy to read. When editing the images received from the photographer there were so many due to the way we shot, capturing every individual moment, this meant that the editing process was very time consuming, i instantly chose the images i thought were the  strongest and stood out being very picky with the standard of imagery i wanted. I further chose images that could tell the narrative of the story as although brochures usually have a few productions shots i wanted to create an add on experience from the play in choosing images that told a story was essential. 

{Weaknesses} 

• First Photographer sent me only jpeg files didn't get the camera RAW files until day before book was suppose to be sent off. 
• Wig lace and hair lines were a nightmare to adjust 
• black backgrounds needed adjusting
• nail varnish on model Darsh & hair bands on the girls i didn't notice on shoot.

Through this process i came across a few hurdles, firstly as i used two photographers I started on the images from the last shoot were Angelica the photographer used all camera RAW files, this made the process of editing easy and the quality of photography to a high standard. When i went to edited Dionne's images that were most of the scenes she had sent me Jpegs although for the print i was doing they would be of fine quality Bridge didn't open and in photoshop the quality looked very pixelated. As I was at home i wasn't able to collect the RAW files from her until a day previous to the book being sent of, this caused a lot of stress as i was having to edit the images at last minute along side the creation of the book. Although this took more time and I was having to re edit the RAW files I wanted the best outcome available to putting in the extra work was worth it, the RAW files looked a lot clearer and using Bridge quicken the rate of post production due to the clarity of programme use. 

I did find while editing I was told that wig lace and non black back ground would be easy to take out although not being experience in photoshop i found this challenging, with perseverance and IT support i was shown the clone tool this helped lots in masking these areas, further more in future when using wigs for a shoot i would conceal the wig lace a lot more than i did in these shots as the camera images are so in detail they seamed more obvious than in reality. 

I am pleased with all the final edits of my production imagery, head shots, background imagery and location shooting. This was more time consuming than anticipated and held me back in my production schedule as with the delay in receiving the RAW files i was then having to edit images along side the creation of the book. In my next post you can see how i decided page layout and the final curation of the book.