From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

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Post-processing techniques

Post-processing techniques

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Post-processing techniques

I am passionate about photography and that passion definitely extends to my postproduction workflow as well. That's a little bit of what I want to talk about here. Some of the post-processing techniques that were used on these images. Sometimes when you open up one of your photographs on a computer, you're just starting to get to know it. You're asking yourself, well, what do I need to do? Well, with many of the color pictures, I didn't need to do very much at all, Here we're at this great location, this fascinating subject. So the picture like this, all that I wanted to do was to boost the contrast and color just to make it a bit more vivid. In other situations, perhaps you are going to do the opposite. With this picture, which I like, I like the composition. I like how it's framed by the bridge. I noticed that the color was a little bit distracting. My eye kept going towards the shoes or the blue tape or the blue sky. With this picture, I want to create something that was a little…

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