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Does all the photographers use post production software? |
does all the photographers use post production software to enhance their pictures? What are the widely used post production software professional photographers use? How much does a professional camera man charges to cover a wedding? Many photographers don't use post production software. I rarely do, because I was trained in using film. If you use film you learned to actually take the shot you wanted, cropping in camera, getting the light and exposure right etc. Film was too expensive when I was learning photography and shooting as a freelance photographer to waste shots. If I have to use software enhancements it is invariably because I got something a bit wrong. Not sure I agree with nodality. One price of a telephoto lense is losing a stop or so. So with a fixed lense, you get more light - but it may need cropping later. When I take motorsport photos I often get conservative at first, to be sure I get the shot - I don't frame closely on the target. Then later I zoom a little more to try for the perfect shot. One day in Yellowstone, I was 10 feet from a Mule Deer & her suckling fawn. I hurriedly tried to get the picture. But I was on matrix metering & semi-auto. As the subject was in a small area of sunlight, they were overexposed & I had to darken & play with contrast, hue & saturation. SURE - if I have the time to get the right picture, I probably don't need to use editing software. But I rarely have the time. Even landscapes can change - for example, the easiest way to photograph the Grand Canyon from the rim is with partial cloud & a piebald sort of sun/shade pattern, especially with snow on the ground & the occasional low cloud. I've waited for 2 hours in 1 place, just to try to get that photo. Then the conditions came & went in under a minute. Don't even get me started, talking about the changing conditions, photographing sunrise & sunset, they change every 5-10 seconds and often need warming up too. Weddings start at $2,000 to show up, more for prints. The average here in Phoenix is around $5,000 and it includes a videographer ... again photos and post production are extra. I use Photo Mechanic for editing my images and Photoshop CS III to add my information and the clients by modifying the XMP files. If I shoot in RAW is always use Photoshop to adjust my images if necessary. Editorial, sports and glamour photogapher I would say that not all photographers use post production software but many do. Their adjustments can be very minimal and similar to that of what would be done in a film photo lab and more extreme (cropping, color enhancement, blurring backgrounds, etc) editing. In my opinion Photoshop CSIII or II is the most common editing tool used by photographers. Iview, Photo Mechanic, and Noise Ninja are tools I also use but all my images are actually worked on in Photoshop. I don't shoot weddings but pricing is based on many things, including the market and demand for that photographer. I've seen prices as low as $500 and as high a $10,000. Personally I wouldn't hire a wedding photographer that charges on the low end. If you charge pennies for your work then it is worth pennies! More likely for a good photographer you will pay (or charge) somewhere between $1,500 (for a basic package) and $3,000 (for a more complete package). Hope that helps. |
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