By: Thorsten Overgaard. July 26, 2018.
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Today I will show a few examples of what I edit. This is a series of articles where I will tell how I edit my photographs, what I look for, what tools I use, how much time I spend on editing, and what my hitrate usually is (how many of the photos I take ends up as final pictures).
These examples are relatively simple and you will see a pattern in what I do, and how long I use on an image. Generally, if things doesn't work out relatively fast, I skip the photo and move to the next one. I prefer to spend my time in the field, rather than by the computer trying to "fix it". My experince is that if something needs a lot of "fixing", it's seldom worth it.
A good picture looks good to begin with. It just needs a few adjustments. A bad picture looks bad and even a lot of work seldom makes it other than mediocre.
A few examples of what I edit
Above: Sunset boulevard with Leica Q.
Lines straightened, cropped slightly and white balance warmed up to look like the sunset light it was, and so that the sandstone building looks like sandstone. Shadow details lifted in the bottom of the photo, shade added on top to “frame” the building. Exposure brought down a bit (to make space for:) brightness and contrast brought up.
180 seconds editing.
Early sunset from hotel window with Leica Q.
Lines straightened, white balance brought up a slight bit warmer. Exposure, shadow details, black and contrast changed slightly to make the photo more “sparkling”.
60 seconds editing.
Above: Street Portrait San Francisco with Leica M-D 262.
Picture tilted and cropped. White balance brought up a small bit, red and orange channel desaturated to get better skin tone. Shadow details improved, then black and contrast added to get more lively leather vest and beard.
120 seconds editing.
Above: Street Scene San Francisco with Leica M-D 262.
Picture tilted and cropped. Converted to black and white. Exposure brought down, shadow details up, contrast up and brightness up.
30 seconds editing.
Above: Vancouver with Leica M-D 262.
Picture tilted and cropped. Converted to black and white. Exposure brought down, shadow details up, contrast up and brightness up.
30 seconds editing.
Above: Street portrait San Francisco with Leica M-D 262.
Exposure brought up and white balance adjusted. Shadow details up considerably, contrast up and brightness up. Cropped for clarity again, white balance adjusted again after editing for more exact colors.
Then added a copy for black & white to make a version without the bright yellow color in the background: Black and white applied. Shadow details up, exposure up, brightness up. Added black and contrast to get tonality to sparkle.
180 seconds editing.
Above: Street portrait Los Angeles with Leica M-D 262.
Exposure brought up quite a bit. Made a monochrome version. Exposure up quite a bit, cropped and tilted. Shadow details up, brightness up. Added black and contrast to get tonality to sparkle.
180 seconds editing.
Above: Early morning in Istanbul. Artistic change of White Balance with Leica M240
Here is an image I adjustment White Balance from 4800 Kelvin (as shot Auto White Balance in the camera) to 6800 Kelvin, because I decided to make an artistic change of the white balance. To make it look warmer than it realistically was.
I hope you enjoyed this talk about my editing. As always, feel free to e-mail me for ideas, suggestions, questions and more.
Also read:
"My Precious Workflow"
"The Philosophy of Editing"
"Which Computer to Get for Photo Editing"
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