Leicester wedding photographer

Photo Editing

All of the Leicestershire wedding photography images on this site will of had different amounts of photo editing applied. For me when I press the button that is only part of the story telling of your wedding day.

It can be tempting to over process an image at the the wedding photo editing stage. Although a single image may take me half an hour to edit until I am happy, I still prefer to keep it looking natural so you will not even know anything has been done at all unless you were to see the original version.

Brooksby Hall

The amount of photo editing will vary with each wedding photographer. Some could be simply selecting the best images or adjusting brightness.

Brooksby Hall
Brooksby Hall wedding

A wedding photographer doesn’t actually have to have any editing skills at all as they can pay a 3rd party, usually based overseas who will to do all the colour correcting for them. I prefer to keep 100% control of my images for both security and artistic reasons.

Leicester wedding photographer

Photo Editing Skills

Its not an easy skill to be able to properly colour correct and edit an image and it should be done on a professional grade and calibrated monitor in a light controlled environment and not a laptop. But that isn’t enough as you also need to have been trained on how to “see” colour correctly so that you know that your editing is correct. When I was 16 I worked in Leicester’s top professional photo print labs for 7 years where I was trained in the art of high end colour grading and photo printing in real darkrooms using enlargers and photographic paper.

Normanton Park Hotel
Exton Hall wedding

When we look at a scene our eyes constantly adjust to the light making the dark parts look brighter and the light parts darker. The camera cannot do this and so its in the photo editing that I can then start to put back some of that extra feeling that the camera couldn’t see. I then can create the image in more of a way that it was seen by the eye but to do this you have to of been there whereas a 3rd party photo editor will not have this benefit. 

Here bride and Dad have just arrived at the Church but the cones outside the church did not leave enough room for the car and so the only place to park was here.

Barrow upon soar church car

Video guys have to do their job too and can sometimes stray into my shots without knowing

Barrow upon soar church
Kilworth House wedding