Wedding photo retouch12/23/2023 ![]() Then another day I go back and see if I can cull down further so as not to pick near-duplicates of the same moment. ![]() Usually there are a couple of passes of selecting, the first is the broader sweep. Rest assured it takes time to make sure and rounds of revision to whittle down to the final selection. When we’re dealing with 50 – 100GB of files, that makes all the difference! I can quickly locate images without the computer slowing down. Photo Mechanic is much faster and easier than Lightroom to do this. I pick the keepers out of all the images shot. (Or in this 2023 edit, the company I outsource my editing to does all of this and I’ve been using them since 2021). The program easily allows me to pick the images I want to deliver to you. Industry standard these days is using Photo Mechanic program that also takes care of the importing. Culling (selecting photos) – Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits These backups are in addition to the secondary identical original files that were shot to SD card at the wedding. Then, once they are full, they join my archive and I obtain two new 4TB hard drives and the process continues. I use 2 X 4TB hard drives that are my active pair. Offline backupįor my offline backup I transfer (copy) the files onto a secondary external hard drive, which is essentially a clone of the original one. It’s a one-way back up (i.e not a sync like Google Drive), so if I accidentally delete something I can always retrieve it from Backblaze’s servers. It runs in the background and only alerts me if there’s any problems! I also recommend it for anyone who wants to back up their files easily and quickly. It’s an essential cloud backup for wedding photographers! I have to be REALLY darn sure I have copied everything before formatting the cards ready for the next wedding! (Remember the SD cards? They’re still sitting pretty, just in case there’s any issue despite the checking and double-checking).īackblaze is an awesome tool for backing up large amounts of filesįor my online back up I use Backblaze which automatically uploads any file that makes its way on to my computer’s hard drive, or a particular external hard drive. It takes quite a while because it could be anything up to about 100GB of files. I step away and let the computer do its thing. It’s more robust than simply using the computer system’s own ‘copy and paste’ system that you’d use to copy files. The program that does this is called Photo Mechanic. Ingesting just means transferring (either moving or, to be on the safe side, copying files from the memory card to the hard drive). I have a program that ingests all of these juicy RAW files to my hard drive. They’re only formatted once I’ve delivered your finished photos to you. The SD cards, which have the exact duplicate files, are safely stored in a fire safe. I only import from the CF cards which are more robust. ![]() ![]() READ MORE Do I need a second photographer at my wedding? However, I believe much of this is also common practice throughout the wedding photography industry. I can only speak as to what I personally do for my post-processing workflow. ![]() Our editing process means turning the RAW, unedited files into the finished jpegs you see in your online gallery. That involves a few steps, broken down for you here. Unlike all your other vendors who are done when your wedding’s over, your photographer’s real work starts after the wedding. I think ‘post-production’ is actually more correct because it encompasses more than the actual ‘tweaking’ of pictures. It tends to be called ‘editing’ by the community at large. I use the terms ‘editing’, ‘post-processing’ and ‘post-production’ somewhat interchangeably. Since I wrote this article, I now have a team that edits and retouches images for me, as we have scaled the business quite a bit in the last few years. They’ll allude to the editing process and the various steps that are involved from selecting the images through final delivery. Photographers will talk a lot about their editing style. In this article I’m going to give a brief intro to how I edit photos as a wedding photographer. ![]()
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