Post Production (Image Correction)

Culling

The best and most relevant pictures survive the culling process. Each image is carefully scrutinized 3-4 times keeping your preference and criteria in mind. Out of a bulk of more than a few thousands images, we handpick the best that describe the episode-wise story of the wedding. Poorly exposed images, awkward expressions, out of focus frames and repetitive images are culled out in this process. Again you are the boss - tell us how many culled images you would like – and we will deliver to your satisfaction.

Color Correction

A photographer is always challenged with a variety of lighting conditions, settings and situations to deal with while shooting a live wedding. That’s why photographers usually shoot more pictures than they need. Before delivery to the customer, it is important to synchronize these pictures in your unique style. Color correction helps bring a stamp of your work to the images.

We learn your style through sample images you provide us or through your website and blog. Our exhaustive workflow allows us to use the best tools available in color correcting your images to ensure uniformity of White Balance, Color Temperature, Contrast, Brightness, Exposure, Hue & Saturation and Clarity Levels.

Once our team is trained to your style, we apply the same to each of your image.

Basic Artistic Edit

After having thoroughly color corrected your images, we hand craft selected images through a basic artistic edit. Artistic edits add effects that cannot be added in-camera or during the photo shoot and are applied to 10-12% of your best final delivered images. Basic Artistic Editing services include:

• Removing Unwarranted Blemishes: We use Lightroom's tools to erase or diminish blemishes.

• Black and White Effects: We manipulate hue, saturation, luminance, and contrast to achieve a high quality black and white conversion. Our clients can dictate if they prefer a neutral B&W or a slight color tone (warm or cool).

• Creative Saturation: We use selective saturation manipulation to achieve a distinct look or style. For example, we can increase saturation in just blue to deepen the sky color, or just green to enhance plants. We can also decrease saturation of a specific color cast to achieve natural colors.

• Sepia Tone Effects: We use split tone color effects to achieve the desired sepia color while maintaining richness in the shadows.

• Sepia Tone Effects: We use split tone color effects to achieve the desired sepia color while maintaining richness in the shadows. Basic Dodging and Burning: We use brushes and gradients to selectively improve local areas in the photograph. We will also adjust contrast and saturation in conjunction with exposure to create seamless dodges and burns.

Advanced Artistic Edits

Our advanced editing services are applied to 10-12% of your best final delivered images. These images are clinically maneuvered (in Photoshop) to stand apart and define the real story of the wedding. Our highly skilled staff members ensure that along with the advanced artistic edits, consistency is maintained in the overall visual experience. Advanced Artistic Editing services include:

• Facial Retouching (Blemish Removal, Skin Smoothing): We use layer masking techniques in Photoshop to apply these effects.

• Removal of Objects: We us clone stamping, content aware fill, compositing of images, and other techniques at the editor’s disposal to remove objects from your images.

• Detailed Color & Saturation Channel Adjustments: These adjustments are similar to Creative Saturation, but are more refined and limited to local areas within an image.

• Professional Press Print Sharpening: We use Photoshop’s powerful sharpening tools, such as un-sharp mask; hi pass filters, etc., to sharpen the images.