New Orleans Destination Wedding!
Jennifer and Mike’s Wedding at Scripps Seaside Forum
More Wedding Photos…
After seeing some engagement photos I did at this Beach in Malibu this client decided that even though they didn’t get married at the beach they would really like to have some photos of the two of them in clothes at the Beach. So we scheduled a photo shoot. It was really a smart thing to do on their part because we had a whole afternoon to focus on just photographing the two of them together.
Kaylinn and Steve’s Wedding at The Los Angeles Athletic Club
Carlos and Carmel’s Wedding
Malibu Wedding Photographer
Photographer vs. Photoshop
There used to be a world before Photoshop. Photoshop didn’t always exist and photographers had to be able to get the shot in camera.
Photographers that include photoshop in their wedding packages are doing one of a couple things…
– Lying
– Don’t have enough experience to know the amount of time it takes to retouch
– Have no business so they have plenty of time to Photoshop.
– Or charge a fortune and out source the work
The truth is no photographer has enough time to Photoshop every image for every wedding. Here is how I know on average it takes me about an hour to do basic retouching on a single image. My standard package includes 400 images on a disc. If I were to include retouching it would take me 400 hours per wedding to do retouching. Which would mean each wedding if I were only putting in 40 hour weeks would take me 10 weeks.
People always ask me if I include retouching? I do for albums and prints but not for my standard package which includes digital negatives. If you feel like you need retouching on a couple images I charge $35 per hour. To be honest, if you look through my online profile nothing has been retouched. I used to have an image where I retouched out a stop sign out but it’s not up anymore. I think a wedding photographer shoot know enough about lighting, camera angles and lens distortion to be able to capture great photos in camera.