Photographers do not always have a good relationship with post-processing. Some photographers edited their photos, which they captured in the camera. Other photographers ignore the post-processing stage-as not to use the equipment available to cure the processing of a photo through their photographs.
However, Kalinga and Editing are two of the two most essential parts of photography and should not be discussed or not. Kalinga lets you choose the best photos and transmits your message more effectively as a photographer. Post-processing-or picture tuning, as I prefer to call it more-plays an important role in making the chosen images correct.
(I portrayed this essay using some photos from the final intercourse season of the Great Creested Twber to create a meaningful selection case to create a small portfolio.)
Why Culling is important
Culling process – that is, select your images, which you choose to show – it is necessary because it removes the best images from the mass of photographs taken (perhaps thousands if you, like me, like me, use a lot in action photography).
Being selective helps us become a better photographer. Two reasons are true:
- Only showing the best pictures increases the perception of photographer’s skills-even in our own eyes, improves our self-esteem,
- quality over quantity. It doesn’t matter how many Total Photos taken by you during the photo session, it matters how many Good You take pictures.
“Twelve important pictures are a good crop in any one year,” Ansle Adams said. I find this quote very explanatory of this concept, which emphasizes the importance of selectivity. Consider this with family and friends, showing their photos to all your audience. A small selection of your best photos is often appreciated more than the long sequence of low quality images Similar Good images; Often it is better to choose the best of sets, even if it is difficult).
What does your “best” photos mean and how much should you abandon? In the past, I preferred to renounce technically unsuccessful photographs. Now, I follow the opposite approach: I choose those who place on the basis of how the image effectively explains the artistic message in my mind during shooting. And I mercilessly remove all others, which are often more than 90% of total.
How to select images effectively
A straight place to start is that you should not choose any images with technical flaws that you find objectionable. Sometimes, you can deliberately take photos with speed blot or other intentionally “flaws” and of course, these images should be placed. Severe unwanted technical flaws, however, you will only annoy more over time and make a picture out of controversy.
Then the steps are to choose images based on their artistic effectiveness. This process involves evaluation of many factors:
- Emotion and effect: A successful image produces emotions and has a strong view effect. It does not matter that this effect comes from the subject matter, composition, light, color or vice versa. But the image should strike.
- Clarity of the message: The image should communicate the message or story that the photographer intends to describe – that is, the idea of ​​keeping the photographer in mind. It does not matter whether it is a sophisticated project, or just a desire to portray the beauty of a scenario or the intensity of the subject’s gaze.
- Originality and creativity: The ability to offer a new or unique perspective often separates an image from others and makes it special.
Suppose you have a project for your selection, such as for a presentation, a portfolio, or a book. In that case, stylistic consistent in general is also necessary between selected images and the style of photographer. It helps to maintain a uniform and recognizable visual story. However, diversity is even more essential for projects like these. Two images that are similar to each other, can completely ruin the flow of a photo chain.
Post-processing stage
The post-processing allows photographer to fine-tune and correct a good image. Software can be complex, but there are some fundamental tools after posting that case for every photo:
- White Balance – Remember that it is also a legitimate artistic device that can change the overall mood significantly.
- Think of exposure-cum-key and high-key pictures, and their feelings can be different.
- Contrast – Changes the difference between the light and dark areas of the image to make a picture in more intense or more control.
- Saturation – adjusts the intensity of colors, and often, those colors of the mood are provided on the image.
- Clarity-increases the opposite in the middle-tone regions, emphasizes the texture and description and their importance in the composition.
- Increase or reduce the perception of sharp-nims-nim-level details; However, too much sharpness looks aggressive.
- Noise reduction – reduces grains and malaise at a pixel level, but too much noise reduction looks like a photo details like plastic.
- Crop – To improve the composition, it is often necessary to harvest an image slightly, but a serious crop suggests the issue of a composition in the camera.
- Spot healing – a very controversial way of “removing” elements within a photo. I will talk more about it in the next part.
The names of these devices will not be the same in all software. For example, I prefer to use curves tools to accommodate contrast and exposure. It is not the name of the device that matters, but how the equipment actually modifies the white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. of a photo.
Adjustment can be global or local; They can affect the whole picture or just one part. Most photos can be mainly improved through global adjustment, providing finishing touch with local adjustments. It is possible to change a picture to a large extent through editing – however, my goal (and my recommendation) is to use a mild touch and always try to maintain the basic qualities of the image.
This brings me to the following concept: morality in post-processing.
Ethics in post-processing
Ethics is necessary in post-processing and, more generally, in photography. After all, anything can be done for a photo today. You can add or decrease whatever you want with the photo. You can change the background or paste the subject into a separate scene. And the software is so good that the result can “look normal” no matter how heavy it is edited.
For me, this is a worrying possibility as a photographer. For me, the goal is to never invent images in this way. I like to use post-processing as a tool to customize and chase my photo Artist’s intention As captured in the camera. Fine-tuning and editing is a suitable way to edit a photo that you have captured, but once you use it, you have used it to change whatever you have captured, is it too?
If necessary, I harvest and remove unwanted elements – such as dust on sensors or small branches, but only if I do not change the meaning of the image. I add anything, do not move, or change. I am comfortable removing small elements in the photo, such as dust on camera sensors or small branches, but no more, and some photographers will not even wish to go away.
We should separate photo editing by creating artistic graphics. While the purpose of the former is to improve the quality and expression of the captured image, the latter completely changes the original work, causing something new and different.
I do not want to define universal boundaries; Everyone establishes their own. But passing a “digital image” as a photo is wrong if that image was not made through a photographic process, but not done through digital art, compositing, or something like AI. It is better to be constantly and transparent in explaining how you reach one result, and simple transparency is sufficient to overcome most moral concerns.
conclusion
Carefully select your work-and then fix the most successful images-we are required to identify and show your photos.
This eventually makes us a better photographer, as well as. Photo is a more effective photographer to understand and understand post-processing, already an idea whether a photo will be successful First Pressing the shutter button.
I hope you enjoyed this essay about the importance of Kalinga and Post-Proseing in photography. If you have any question or response, please do not hesitate to leave them down in the comment section.
