The Editing Perspective That Transformed My Photography
How I learned to 'listen' to my photographs.
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ne of the biggest hurdles when starting out in photography is figuring out how to post-process your shots.
It’s a process – that’s for sure – and we all make mistakes along the way. Leaning so hard on the saturation slider that it squeals, turning the contrast up to 11, falling down the HDR rabbit hole where skies look like they’re having some kind of an existential crisis – we’ve all been there.
As you learn to process your shots you begin to understand what all the sliders do, but the why — the reasoning behind each change — can be a lot trickier.
Watching someone edit photos on YouTube can show you the ‘how’, but not the thought process behind the ‘why’. Why bump the contrast? Why dial back saturation? Why lift the blacks?
Here’s the secret no one says out loud: the photo itself tells you what to do – you just have to learn to listen.
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