There are two key aspects to photography: getting the shot, and post-processing the image. When I first started with photography, I was more concerned with post-processing than getting a good shot. I remember taking dozens upon dozens of pictures and looking through them to find the best ones to process. Then I would spend one or two hours a night practising retouching on different images, posting the ones I liked best to Flickr.
As I started doing commissioned work, I became more aware of the necessity for good shots. I only had one 1-2 hour span to get the images I wanted, unlike before when I was taking self portraits, or even working with friends and relatives as models. As the pictures I took improved, the amount of time I had to spend in Photoshop decreased, and so did my concentration on post-processing.
With the shots from this image, I did my best to try out new types of processing. Some worked out, while others didn’t. Nonetheless, the images below are what I thought were the best of the shoot. Let me know what you think of the new (orange) processing technique.
Just as a miscellaneous/potentially interesting fact, I’d been watching Lost for two weeks leading up to this particular shoot, and the night before I had gotten maybe 9 episodes watched in the day. So if you see a deserted-island theme in a few of the pictures, that’s probably where the inspiration came from.
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