Today as I was editing photos from the fabulous wedding of Jes and Jack, it dawned on me that many of you might not know what I mean by “edit” photos. With today’s digital cameras being so amazing (especially our top-of-the-line Canon 5D mkii’s) it would be a natural assumption that we don’t do very much on our end. Au contraire. Back in the days when we first started wedding photography, we would show up with our film cameras, shoot the heck out of the wedding, ship the photos off to a lab who would do the developing, and hand the photos to the bride and groom. It was more expensive, since we were essentially outsourcing our editing, but even though we don’t have to pay someone to edit our photos now, a lot still goes into it. When I’m super backlogged with editing, I wish for the good ol’ film days when I could hand it off to someone else!

We typically work 2 hours for every hour we’re at your wedding shooting, and this little “before” and “after” shows you why. Though we aim for a natural look (so no crazy “fake-looking” editing), there are still little tweaks we like to do to every photo to make sure it has our signature “pop!” We make sure the whites are white and the blacks are black, that everyone’s faces and outifts are properly exposed and that it simply looks bright and vibrant. This below is just a basic edit, but when you order a photo for your wall or for your album, we do a second round of more intensive edits- smoothing skin, removing exit signs, getting rid of anything that draws your eye away from the couple. But more on that later…

It’s subtle, but significant. For your wedding photographs – arguably the most important photos of your life – I think it’s worth the time

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