Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:12 pm
Hello Forum,
My workflow issues seem very parochial to me now that I have had a chance to view what you all are posting in regards to workflow.
As a preface, the following is limited to location lighting and not work done in the studio or under mono blocks where I am in control of the lighting.
Once I acquire the images from my source I throw away anything that is not pretty decent to begin with. If my images have big problems then I made mistakes in the field. I find those mistakes in the first edit process and do my best to never do whatever it was again. If the exposure is off or the image is simply flat then they are discarded. That is step one.
The next, and very major decision is final use of the image. If I do not have a specific output goal then the image is not touched. I do not work on an image that I do not have a firm understanding of where it will end up, either cmyk print, inkjet, dye-sub print, web, newsprint, or simply a request for the original image. How I handle the image is dictated by where it is headed.
I have a hard time guessing how blue to make a sky, or how warm to make a face, or how white to make white, or how red that red really is.
I look forward to coming up to speed with you folks and contributing more than just this quick post.
My workflow issues seem very parochial to me now that I have had a chance to view what you all are posting in regards to workflow.
As a preface, the following is limited to location lighting and not work done in the studio or under mono blocks where I am in control of the lighting.
Once I acquire the images from my source I throw away anything that is not pretty decent to begin with. If my images have big problems then I made mistakes in the field. I find those mistakes in the first edit process and do my best to never do whatever it was again. If the exposure is off or the image is simply flat then they are discarded. That is step one.
The next, and very major decision is final use of the image. If I do not have a specific output goal then the image is not touched. I do not work on an image that I do not have a firm understanding of where it will end up, either cmyk print, inkjet, dye-sub print, web, newsprint, or simply a request for the original image. How I handle the image is dictated by where it is headed.
I have a hard time guessing how blue to make a sky, or how warm to make a face, or how white to make white, or how red that red really is.
I look forward to coming up to speed with you folks and contributing more than just this quick post.