My job as an editorial photographer is rooted primarily in capturing people. Occasionally the focus is an event, physical structure, product, or idea, but 95% of the time there is one or more people in front of my lens. During the current pandemic, precautions have lead to a significant drop in the frequency that I am working. With that extra time, I have been producing educational content for photographers across social media. Here’s a recent image from a video for my photography YouTube channel. I wanted to share the stages of post-processing.
From left to right, the images show:
1: Raw / Straight out of camera
2: Dodge and Burn / Frequency Separation
3: Saturation adjustments
4: Micro Dodge and Burn / Fly away removal
5: Eye adjustments
6: Local color adjustments (adding warmth to shadows)
7: Local contrast adjustments (increasing specularity and deep shadows)
8: Final Sharpening
