I just learned something new! Maybe the way I like my images to look is not necessarily the way the client wants them to look. Weird right?
I shot with a model last week and the shoot went great. She went on and on about how the images looked and how no one has ever captured images this good of her before. I was feeling pretty stoked. I shoot tethered to my laptop when I can, so we are looking at adjusted images as they come in from the camera. Much better than looking at the back of the camera.
The shoot ended, she left and I began to edit the images and to post a web gallery of the keepers for her to choose from. Even though I am an old film shooter, and even though I am used to shooting images exactly the way I want them to look, I still like to add some minor adjustments to the images in post. Not much, just a little tweaking. She emailed right back with her choices and I began to process the RAW files.
Well when she got the images, she was a little disappointed because she really liked them as they were on the computer on the day of the shoot and not so much with my tweaking. It makes perfect sense really. She fell in love with what I had done as a photographer but not as a retoucher. It’s hard to be upset about that and I invited her over (after explaining that her monitor may not be looking at the same image that I had sent) to direct me in the post processing. When I showed her the images with the tweaking and then reset the images to their straight capture, she was happy again.
