This past week I was asked an interesting question… one that I’m not usually asked. The question was:
“Do you do post-processing on the photos or are you going to provide them as is?”
While over the past couple years I’m being asked more and more about digital files, I’ve never been asked this before and I realized that I couldn’t answer in any other way but “yes, I do post-processing.” Now from the moment I decided to turn my love of portrait photography into a business, I knew that I would need to know how to navigate Photoshop just as well as my camera and studio equipment. But to say that “I do post-processing” doesn’t mean much. What I show online in my portfolio only shows the final result of what I capture in the camera as well as the processing I apply when sitting at the computer.
So how do I fix this? Is it something that I should share as part of the service I provide? The more I thought about it, the more I found myself saying, “Yes!”. I kept recalling in previous sessions people asking me, “You can remove ___________ afterwards, right?” Or noticing that there was a problem area that they weren’t pleased with.
I reached out to a friend whose headshot I recently captured and asked if I could use one of her portraits to show one example of how snapping the shutter on my camera is only part of what I do with a portrait. Here is a side-by-side comparison to show what I’m talking about.
So next time I get asked:
“Do you do post-processing on the photos or are you going to provide them as is?”
I’ll say:
“Yes I do, and let me send you an example as to what I’ve done in the past.”
by JKEPhotography
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