Thanks for everyone who entered and won!
Here are some of the answers as to what some thought the ink blot looked like:
- a set of human lungs on top of a pelvic girdle
- two women kissing with big hearts and ample bottoms
- hearts with flowers around them
- two people standing on hearts kissing one another
- boots and mittens
And the most common answer
- two poodles kissing
- two poodles with crazy wigs kissing each other
- two short legged poodles in an open mouth kiss
Check back soon for next Februarys contest
With a lot of my wedding packages we offer two photographers and we end up taking over 3000 images. That’s a lot of files and they are LARGE RAW files and they take time to load into the computer. I then go through all 3000+ RAW files narrowing it down to the best 1000. This takes A LOT of time. I look at EVERY SINGLE file and select the best ones as a lot of them are duplicates or someone blinked or decided to scratch their forehead in the middle of a portrait – it happens. OK, and sometimes I mess up or the flash may not have gone off. YES, it’s true! I’m not perfect, lol. From there I edit the RAW files: white balance, skin tones, cropping, color correction, and so on. This is the area of editing where I am the lab – got to love digital! In the old days we dropped the film off to the lab. Now the digital photographer acts as the lab. And this takes time…maybe the most time...besides the shooting of course. I think right now this part takes me 3hrs. Then I transfer the RAWs to jpeg and this takes more time…a few more hours. Once the best of the best is selected every image is ran through batching where I run a few actions. Most images straight out of the camera are flat. There is never an image straight out of my camera – ever! There are many small tricks I can do to an image that make it look better and the average person would have no idea and think it’s just the way it always looked. (awesome) But if I showed you the before and after you would notice and love it :D Batching 1000 images takes a few hours with the batch I run. Then I select the best 200-300 (depending on the package) for the album. This takes about 40min or so. From here I put them in a new folder and edit them the way I see them for the album: B&W, antique, selective color, blends and so on. I then upload the images through ftp to my lab which is located in Toronto. I print all my images at a professional lab. They are AMAZING and I wouldn’t think about printing anywhere else. You can tell it’s a professional paper. Just turn the image over, look at the back and it’s written all over the back side of the paper. There is a difference in quality between printing at a pro lab and printing locally which is why I ftp my images to Toronto. I drive to the lab which is a 600km round trip for me 2-4 times a month. (that's a 4hr drive and so worth it) Sometimes I’ll pick up four weddings at a time. I then put the images into an album, burn the disks and gift wrap. DONE!
Not all photographers give the disk of images away. Since I do I need to take the time to edit all 1000 images. It does worry me that my disks are taken to average commercial labs that make terrible prints so I try to make the files look the very best they can. I’m such a quality snob!
