I\'ll preface this by saying that I wholeheartedly support you learning photoshop/lightroom, and that its pretty much necessary in this day and age.
That said,
In my opinion most photographers these days have the idea that they have to \"do something\" to every photo to make it good... that if it doesn\'t LOOK \"edited,\" then its not a complete image. IMHO, about 90% of the editing being done by wedding photographers these days will prematurely date those images.
You say that these three images would look better with \"PP.\" My questions are:
1. What do you like about each of these images?
2. Is there anything that you feel could be improved about each image, more specifically than \"just needs post-processing?\"
Start looking at each image from a compositional standpoint. Squint at your images to see what stands out. Once you\'ve got a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of each photo, look for ways to subtly enhance the strengths while minimizing the weaknesses. Consider the crop, consider dodging and burning (lightening darkening), letc....
I guess what I\'m trying to say is that from these first steps, don\'t think about \"doing Photoshop\" to images for its own sake, or for some fancy special effects work. Look at using editing to bring out the best that\'s already present in each image.
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM
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