Postprocessing - that is icing on the cake!
Most people think that the life of a wedding photographer is idyllic.. He will go to work for several hours on Saturday, take outdoor photographs during the week and earn a lot of money. In the case of an amateur photograph in a leather vest, who ceased to evolve 20 years ago, it probably has some meaning. After taking a photo reporting, he will copy the photos from the card onto a DVD and develop the prints in the lab. At my job this is done a “little bit” differently.
Postprocessing (image processing) - is nothing but a final element of the creation of the photography that is photo processing and developing a photo to the corresponding format. Unfortunately this is not an easy or fast process. The cameras, despite the enormous progress and high prices are just unintelligent devices that cannot empathise with the intentions of the photographer and try to record on the card as much average exposure as possible. They have no idea on what should be bright and what dark on the photo, which is crucial. Our behavior during rapidly changing conditions in the report, also contributes to fool the camera.
To achieve the effect I have in my mind what I need is the software, considerable experience and skills to produce a native RAW file. The average time spent on post-processing of a photo is about 8-12 minutes, which with the package of 300 photos means 40-60h of work at the computer. Thus, after about 12 hours spent at the wedding party and 3-4h at outdoor photographing, the real work just begins. An average of 50 hours spent post-processing the material. This means 10h a day from Monday to Friday, with network communicator, mail, internet and other attention diffusers turned off ;-)
Personally, I think that the number of photos within the range from 150 to 300 is the most optimal wedding package. Easily there can be contained the story of Your day. Watching 1000 photos with the family tires not only you but your guests (not to mention the fact that with so many images there is no chance for a decent post-processing.) At every wedding there are many digital cameras: belonging to aunts, uncles and friends. With a little practice, they are sufficient to serve as commemorative photos. A wedding reporting is a coherent story narrated in photos, not a documentation of each wedding’s participant activity. In the future I would like to deliver 150 photos, devoting them time reserved for three hundred! Unfortunately, we Poles live in the conviction that the more the better: (In the EU, a wedding photographer delivering less than 100 images from the whole reporting is a standard.
In addition, presented are examples of what could not be achieved without working at the computer.
