Wedding processing

I like the ones with the lady in the big white dress in them, but only the square ones. I don't like the oval fuzzy ones. :-)
 
Photoshop? yucccch! Reala, printed slightly warm, slightly dense..... job done!
 
Organnyx said:
Photoshop? yucccch! Reala, printed slightly warm, slightly dense..... job done!
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nooooooooooo........

you do need to process your images, certainly more then made out above. I agree with Martin about overblown photoshoppery (if thats a word) but you may well need to do a degree of skin work, sharpen, give the contrast a wee boost, adjust the levels etc etc etc
 
My process is lightroom for the basic ajustments edit (colour, exposure etc) then export and disk for viewing, the couple then choose the pics for the album, these then go through photoshop for a proper edit, thats removing signs, chewing gum from floors etc, (best avoided at the taking stage but it's not alwasy possible) fine tune of colours exposure, creative effects if required, these are the pics that go off to the album maker.
 
About 90 odd% in Lightroom as I've got some decent presets and since discovering the joy of Nik plugins to cs6 I've been doing a bit more in there.
 
Cue over-vignette-blurred-soft-focus-glamour-glow-type-shots....
 
"you do need to process your images, certainly more then made out above" - I was referring to the "good old days" - shoot a wedding on Reala, take pile of films to processors on the Monday "slightly warm, slightly dense please", wander off leaving the lovely Michelle to work her magic, pick up pile of top notch prints on the Thursday - none of this computer/Photoshop nonsense - if it was sharp it was sharp, no faffing about needed - frame and expose it all correctly in the camera, job done! I wish it was so easy now...........:D
 
Organnyx said:
"you do need to process your images, certainly more then made out above" - I was referring to the "good old days" - shoot a wedding on Reala, take pile of films to processors on the Monday "slightly warm, slightly dense please", wander off leaving the lovely Michelle to work her magic, pick up pile of top notch prints on the Thursday - none of this computer/Photoshop nonsense - if it was sharp it was sharp, no faffing about needed - frame and expose it all correctly in the camera, job done! I wish it was so easy now...........:D
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Ahhh...how nostalgic :)
 
Lightroom & photoshop for every image the couple see. LR for the basics, PS for detailed editing, contrast adjustments & b/w conversion
Images presented to the couple as a selection of colour & b/w
 
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pingramtedd said:
Do you let the couple decide what they want in B&W or leave it all up to you?
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I choose.
Very occasionally a couple will request a particular image colour or b/w for the album in which case if the page still works I'll do that but most of the time I let the couple chose the album images but I decide how the page looks
 
Pretty sure most people just whack a "vintage" preset on to slam up the midtones and make it all yellow.....
 
Organnyx said:
"you do need to process your images, certainly more then made out above" - I was referring to the "good old days" - shoot a wedding on Reala, take pile of films to processors on the Monday "slightly warm, slightly dense please", wander off leaving the lovely Michelle to work her magic, pick up pile of top notch prints on the Thursday - none of this computer/Photoshop nonsense - if it was sharp it was sharp, no faffing about needed - frame and expose it all correctly in the camera, job done! I wish it was so easy now...........:D
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It is, what you was asking to shop to do with out any control by you is no different then opening a RAW fie and processing it in Photoshop same job differ way of doing the same thing also Not have to wait till Thursday :)
 
It doesn't really matter what other people do, you need to find your own feet as a photographer, (In my head I'm now sounding old and Chinese).

Seriously, don't go in for too much 'groovy' processing, it soon looks dated.

I run a complex B&W action on everything once I've done all the other editing. Then I generally bin all the B&Ws of the family shots. That's quicker than choosing files to convert. But B&W suits me and I would happily only deliver B&W if I could get away with it.

Very rarely I'll get a job that's begging for a different processing style, but mostly colour photo's are just polished.
 
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