January 25, 2010

Who does all the post-production digital work?

Q.

Who does all the post-production digital work?


A.

I insist on doing all the digital editing myself. This is the only way to maintain quality control throughout the entire process. When I take the original shot, I know exactly how I am going to edit each image. When I shoot digital, the majority of the work is done later in Photoshop. (See: "Digital Retouching" for how I go about it.) This allows me to move quickly during the shoot. It use to take me about 2 to 3 hours to light a scene; now I can do my lighting in 30 minutes, but I need to spend a lot of time in Photoshop to recompose all my frames and finish up the lighting in post-production. Lighting in post-production is a very important part of the creative process, and the reason why I insist on doing it myself. Because of the extended time in editing, I end up spending significantly more time per final image doing digital, but the results are consistently superior.


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