Before & After Editing

Throughout the process of a photo session we try and make things perfect in-camera so that we don’t have to edit a lot, however, sometimes things come up that we do need to fix. in this blog you’ll be able to follow along in our process.

Let me start off my saying, we don’t do extreme edits. I always say to my clients going into photo sessions, boudoir especially, that we do touch-ups and lighting adjustments, though. I adore photographers that add in the horses and unicorns and all of the props, (they’re amazing!) but it’s just not in our passion of capturing the truest moment of you and your loved ones.

This photo shoot follows along with two cuties that were full of ideas and in the simplicity of their backyard! Plus, their backyard is beautiful so I mean, what better location?

At the beginning we set the lighting on-camera and followed along with the little ones as all three of us found spots that we wanted to have in pictures. Below are photos that are taken right off the camera. Below you’ll see the steps that we take our photos from being good and taking them just a little bit more to fix lighting and enhance our clients for the day.

As you can see, some of these had different lighting, Right when the girls starting twirling a cloud popped right over the sun and changed my lighting situation, and with kids you don’t have much time to adjust and have them do something again. So I chose to edit this one to show how we can still take this adorable moment and create better lighting for it.

We use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop from Adobe hand in hand while we edit, most of the very close up details we bring into Photoshop, and for the general lighting and our style of editing we edit in Lightroom.

Below is the Photoshop step, and some of the photos don’t need Photoshop. For the photos below, we enhanced the eyes of the littlest one, just to help with pop within the shadows, and then removed some of the stray away hairs just to get them out of her eyes.

For second one, the photo happened unprompted and they just went in for a huge bear hug, which I mean come on, too freaking sweet!

But because of the unprepared photographer for such sweetness, there was a random pool floaty that popped into the photo. So in Photoshop, we went ahead and took the time to remove the distracting color from the background.