Personalised Wedding Photo: the relevance of a professional editing

Photographer's job rarely finish on the day of photo shoots.
When there were films, It had to develop and print them in order to see the pictures. Today, technology helps Us, but a Professional Photographer has to edit photos digitally, so You can see them on a screen before eventually print them.

Not all Professional Photographers develop a specific editing on different photos: in order to speed the delivery and finish their work as soon as possible, some Photographers — especially Wedding Photographers — use automatic editing by cameras or external softwares, just like Instagram filters. In this case, surely the result isn't the best, because the Photographer has no awareness nor control about color tuning: He could be lucky on a single shot or situation, but not on all the Wedding shots.

Professional cameras (but also some amateur cameras) can shoot in JPG — with automatic editing — or in RAW mode, that needs editing by an external software in order to have a usable JPG file. This editing can intensely Personalise Your Wedding Photos!
In the next picture, You can see all the controls of Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 2019: You have a lot of sliders that can deeply change and personalise your Wedding Photo. Obviously, there are other controls for local editing, but maybe I'll write about them in a further article.

First of all, It has to be clear that If You have a bad photo, You cannot change It in a good photo. Then, editing is a very powerful tool that let You really have Personalised Wedding Photo. So, it's time to start to edit a good photo, shot in RAW mode: You'll see how different can look applying different editing styles. This is the original shot converted to JPG by the camera:

It was sunset time, so the camera "read" accurately the colors (for technical people, I'm referring to White balance and Tint). There was an amazing natural light (I didn't use light modifiers) and the photo could be satisfied as is. But Photographer could feel (and instill) different emotions: what if He'd like to emphasize sunset colors, or give a hint of vintage style, or transform in a black and white photo?
Browse the following slideshow and look carefully how different can be developed the original picture!

And now an overview of the original version (in the center) and the eight edited photos:

One shot, different results. I like to personalise every photo shoot because for me every Wedding is different. Most of all, people are different, bride and groom have their own personality. Even if I shoot in the same Wedding venue, You can be sure that the result for two different couple will be completely different! This is why every gallery has a personalised and original editing, different from others.
This I love most of my work: know all "my" couples and picture them by photography in one of the most important day of their lives. Every time is a new challenge, a new pleasure, a new feeling.