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Good editing can make all the difference to a wedding shoot. The following tips may help you to pull the most out of your photographs.

This article is intended for wedding photographers who shoot with digital cameras.

Tips:

Shoot and edit in RAW.

I can't tell you the number of times I have used RAW to save shots that would otherwise have been unusable. You obviously can't do all your editing in RAW but since RAW captures much more in formation than the highest quality JPEG most adjustments will look better done in RAW.

1. Adjusting Exposure. The biggest advantage of RAW is the ability to adjust exposure, and restore blown out highlights or detail lost in deep shadows. Often however I will adjust exposure to increase already dark shadows, or blow out already bright highlights, to achieve various artistic effects or just to just increase the intensity of the photo.

2. Use RAW when converting to black and white. Generally if you want a black and white image you want to do the conversion in RAW, not JPEG. Converting to back and white in RAW will result in a higher quality black and white image.

3. Go easy with saturation. Over saturating a photo is an easy way to ruin a photo, and can easily look great on your screen and really bad in print.

4. Don't over sharpen images. Sharpening artifacts look awful on large prints, be very careful how much you sharpen images. I prefer to just shoot with a sharper lens and then use no sharpening or noise reduction, for the most natural look possible. If you want to add punch to your images consider using curves or dodging and burning instead.

Don't wast time on bad photos

One of the biggest mistakes I have made is wasting time editing photos that will never look really great. There is really only so much you can do even with RAW, so unless it's an important shot keep your editing simple, that way you will have more time to focus on your best shots.

Tricks:

Use Vignettes

I use vignetting extensively to add depth to, or to frame my images. The trick to good vignettes is that they shouldn't be noticeable. If a vignette is noticed by a non photographer then it's to strong. I use a lot of feathering and sometimes even multiple vignettes to achieve a more powerful vignette effect that is still not obvious. I even sometimes use this vignetting technique with color filters to create depth through color, or to liven up an otherwise boring sky. There are several ways to create vignettes with photoshop, but this level of detail goes beyond the scope of this article.

If your shooting with a full frame sensor then the vignetting technique is less needed as full frame sensors capture the natural vignettes present in many lenses.

Dodge and burn

This is one of the most traditional photography techniques and was used in the darkroom long before computers where invented. For those not familiar with dodging and burning it is basically a manual way of lighting and darkening different areas of a photograph. I will often further burn, to darken shadows and give greater focus to a subject. Or, I dodge to soften the shadows on the brides face. I recommend dodging and burning because it gives you a lot of artistic control over the photographic process, whiles still allowing for a natural look.

Kim Sinton

Hawaii Wedding photographer
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Building A Darkroom - 6 Pointers To Get It Done!

Photography is one of the most popular art form and hobby. Taking a photograph and having people appreciate it is one of the best things. The only better thing is having your very own photography lab and developing your own photos yourself.

Darkroom

The photo lab is also known as the dark room. As the name suggests, a dark room is a space or a room that is made dark so that photographs can be developed. Photographers need to use light sensitive materials to develop photographs and films and therefore a dark room needs to be provided.

The first use of these rooms occurred in the 1800's. However, due to advancing technologies, there is a decreasing requirement for dark rooms for developing photographs. However, many hobbyists still prefer the traditional method of using dark rooms.

One rewarding experience for any photographer is printing his or her own pictures. It gives a feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment as the picture is complete and whole and has been created by one's own hands.

You will require a few tips on the procedure required to build your own photo lab or darkroom. Here are some basic tips listed below that you should use while building your own photo lab.

1. Your dark room will be effective only if it entirely dark. There area number of rooms in your house that can be used as a dark room. You could consider using your spare bathroom or room to convert into a dark room.
2. make sure that you ventilate your dark room when you are not using it so that when you do use it, it will be comfortable.
3. Take care to seal off all the parts in your room through which light can leak in.
4. Make sure that you have bought all the supplies that are necessary for development of photos and films. A few of the things you will require are adequately sized trays, easel, tongs, solution and concentrated developer fix. You can purchase some of these items on Ebay at a relatively cheaper rate.
5. You will need a wet partition and a dry partition in your dark room. You need to necessarily include these partitions so that you do not make any mistakes that can cause photo damage.
6. Always use your tray appropriately and wisely. Use one tray to hold the stop solution, one to hole the fix solution and one to hold developer solution.

These are only a few tips that you will require to build your darkroom. Build yours today and enjoy the experience of photography.

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I want to make my own silkscreen t-shirts. Where can I find out the technique and photo-sensitive emulsion ?

I imagine it is going to be some kind of white-glue mixture, water based, and then add some photo-reactive chemicals. You likely spread this combined mixture on the silkscreen (in the darkroom) and let it dry. Then you make a contact print with your clear acetate, using normal and ordinary photographic techniques. This provides an image. After exposure to light, you rinse the silkscreen with water, and the places where the light did not get exposed washes out, leaving the image to silkscreen.---where can I find out the reality of my imagineering? Please advise me a direction, or references so I can make my own, and understand further, the ACTUAL technique. (I am dreaming this all up). Thank you.

well there isn't much more to it really. Once the emulsion is on the screen you place your film, acetate on it and expose it to light. You then wash the screen out and the parts that were exposed to the light harden and the rest washes out so where you had exposed film will now be where your ink prints.

If you are printing more than one colour at a time you have to worry about registration and trapping the image.

My advice is to go to your local art store as they will probably have or at least know of places you can get more information or lessons on it.

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