Photography Retouching

Q – Do you do any retouching to images?

A – We always apply our special ‘Magazine Style’ retouching to every image we give you. This makes a ‘flat’ image into one that ‘pops’ off the page. And any special images that are printed or that go into our Photobooks will always get more personal, special treatments. We do this because, well … hands up who wants their photos to include the pimple on their nose that just appeared that morning or a morsel of food wedged between their front teeth (hands down Quasimodo)? And what’s more – we are photographers who want to be proud of our work….

We  shoot RAW images (unprocessed digital image files) which means that before retouching/colour correction these photos look rather flat BUT it also means that they do contain every bit of data and information. This way we don’t lose details of really bright or really dark areas – they just need to be processed (each image one-by one on the computer) to bring these details out.

So this is the initial post-processing that is really time consuming, but worth every extra bit of effort. And this is the benefit of using top pro cameras, pro lenses and the latest bestest wizziest software. And not forgetting, our 20 years experience.

One thing we are always careful about is not to ‘overdo’ the treatment. We want the final image to still look natural, not all softy-focussy or with skin that has no texture – skin has texture, right? We also have little tricks we use to add something really special to some images, but these are secret and locked in the family vault in deepest darkest Brighton.

Here are some examples of what we do.