Pictures are so fun to take! Taking so many pictures is easy, one minute you have 20 pictures the next you have 200. They are fun to take but the hardest part is deciding which ones are the best. You have to flip through each picture one by one and pick out which few captures are the best. Sometimes you have about 700 pictures and have to pick out only 20...This is by far one of the more challenging things after going on a photo shoot. After every single one you have to sit down and check out all of the pictures you took, through amazing ones and the ones maybe went the best but that is OK no one has to see them but you.
Once the best pictures are picked out, the next step is to edit them. Some people look down on upon editing, but that type of editing is really changing the composition of the picture, changing sizes and overall changing what the picture captured. The type of editing I do is changing the brightness, contrast, cropping, and sometimes changing the vibrancy of the colors. Making certain colors pop more or making them slightly duller depending on the mood of the picture, and sometimes making them black and white.
When I took Digital Photography 1, we had two different editing programs we used. We first started on Lightroom, once we got comfortable enough to use it we were able to move on to Photoshop. Both editing programs were made from the company Adobe. Photoshop is the more famous of the two, everyone seems to know about Photoshop. Lightroom was a great starting program to learn how to edit. Once I learned how to use both I stuck more with Photoshop, you are able to do more on it and fix the smaller things.
Lightroom was easy to learn how to use it, it started with all of your pictures on the bottom easy to find them, you easily flipped through them to choose the one to edit. Once chosen then its simple by using the tool bar on the right side to pick what type of edit, most of mine were changing the contrast of the picture, or how white the white is and how black the black is. I seem to always add a bit more contrast to all of the pictures I edit, it helps sharper lines in the picture.
Photoshop the more commonly known program was a great second editing program we used. It is a bit more complicated but easy to use once you know how to use it. With Photoshop it is more of a detailed editing program; being able to remove things from a picture and even add in parts of a picture into another one. Which is great to have to do little touches on a photograph.
Learning to edit pictures to change slight things such as contrast and lighting was a great skill to have. Making each picture slightly more perfect than when first captured.
