Many times we forget the importance of editing our photos. This is one of the steps that are taken in photographic work and therefore, not least, to achieve the final result that we are looking for in our photographs.
Let's get Sports photography as an example,
How do you take sports photographs?
The process for taking photos, other than taking photos, might look something like the following:
- Get the idea in your head.
- Find the perfect location. Sometimes, and more in competition, the order of the first 2 is changed, you arrive at a location and try to visualize the best idea for that site.
- You think about how you are going to get it. It is very important to try to get the photo at the very moment of taking it. Do not go predetermined to end in Photoshop (at least in sports photography).
- You try. You look at the results, you learn from them, and you correct if they were not what you had planned.
- You get the photo and move on to the next one.
- When you get home, you select your best photos from that moment.
- You edit the photo in Adobe Lightroom, in Photoshop, Camera Raw, Capture One … Whatever you know how to use, I don’t care about the tool.
- You export the photo based on what you are going to do with it. A photograph for the internet is not the same as for printing, we will talk about it one day.
As you can see in each of these steps it is important, so you have to do them all. There is a myth, rumor, or legend that photographers do not edit their photos. And I firmly believe that all, all photographers edit their photographs to a greater or lesser extent. Some will only make “basic adjustments” and others will spend hours and hours editing photos.
Everyone has their own style and way of doing it, but to think that there is always some editing involved, between the photos you see and the photographs that are taken or taken on camera.
To show a button. I’m going to show you one of my photos that was in the discard, as it happened in a triathlon, and that I have given it a second chance.
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Edited vs original
First I show you the edited one, as it has been after editing it. It does not only have basic settings, it has work by zones in which I have applied different settings to achieve the final appearance of the photograph. I do not think it reached the half-hour of editing, a maximum of 1 hour in total.
The final photograph edited vs unedited:
Spectacular, right?
But this photo has a base, a photograph where it came from, which is the raw file that came out of the camera as I took it, without editing in Lightroom or touching any settings. Except for converting it to Jpeg and resizing it for the web site. As you can see if you look over and over, the photo has a reframing or crop on the left to save the “Marshall” or judge of the test. Darkened the area of the trees to remove the boy from the backpack, and the other who is on his knees. Increase the contrast and bring your eyes to the rider taking the curve.
conclusion
There will be some who like the second more than the first or think that they could have done other things or sought another result. In the end, each of us has our own style, more or less aggressive, contrasted or not.
My goal is for you to see that all photographs are edited on the computer, including mine. Some more and some less, but there is always something.
If you still do not know how to use Lightroom or Photoshop, it is time for you to remove the veil from your eyes and start learning, to get the full potential that your photos have!
A lot of pictures!
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