And we’re back-! This week <amidst capturing 4 Portrait Sessions in 4 cities> we’re sharing with you some next level Professional Photography Editing and Compositing work that we’ve done for clients in the past. Since we’ve run a Professional (paid) Photography business for 14 years, we never deliver unedited images to clients. While all of our clients get fully edited images, some of our clients order extensively edited images that range from taking faces or full bodies out of other photographs and concisely editing those into a different photograph (from new images to restoring ripped antique family heirlooms) to even more extremes of compositing our professional photographs of clients into entire movie scenes that we meticulously build by hand.
This intense work takes much longer than most realize since we promise to deliver the best of the best (think Netflix movie cover level). Since we’ve never directly showcased this work on our website or blog we figure most folks may not have seen this work or know that we do it. Enough with the words though. Let’s get into the work-!
High Level Composites
A break from the majority of the more traditional work we create with our clients, there are some of the fantastic client requests that we (for clients with a non-Disney/ Netflix studio budget) can only create through composite work. Often folks come to us with a vision of a potential composite (pertaining to their interests, hobbies, or ideas) that they hire us to create either during their Session with us or that they hire us to create from other high resolution photographs of them. Below are some of the examples of some of these with befores & afters of these detailed composites that we’ve created for clients in the past. (As you can tell Star Wars is often a popular go-to theme).
Dramatic Enhancement
Dramatic enhancements are exactly what they sound like. These are edits that add drama and flair to an image to make it stand out and “pop.” These dramatic enhancements use high end post-production to enhance details of the photographs without adding much collaging of other images into said image. Instead of building in an entire background/ scene, we take what is already in the image that we’ve captured (or been sent) and we add more personality and flair-! #BringTheDrama
Addition and Removal of people, faces, & pets
The addition of, changing of, or the removal of faces or bodies from different images is a common thing folks hire us for. It’s very difficult to get a perfect frameable Family Portrait or Corporate Team Portrait where everyone is smiling well, looking at the camera, have their eyes opened, are all looking natural and put-together, and include (or don’t include) folks who have freshly been hired (or who have freshly left a company). Folks who have a desire for one perfect Portrait often turn to us to re-shape and re-build some elements of a final image. It’s not only people that folks want added or removed, though. We are also often hired to remove other distracting items that were unavoidably in the image at the time of capture.
Antique Heirloom Portrait Restoration
Another type of editing that’s of the utmost importance to many families is the restoration of antique family heirloom portraits. These images range from images captured in the mid to late 1800’s to photographs taken much more recently. We often work directly with older prints (that clients send us in the mail) which have been highly damaged throughout their life, but are some of the only cherished items left from these ancestors. Though some are badly damaged, we always manage to digitally restore our clients’ cherished heirloom photographs with success. In many cases clients hire us to colorize these antique black-and-white images to help modernize those captured in the antique photos. We do also occasionally work directly with original film to digitize, restore, and print those images onto modern archival quality papers or into archival (true photo paper) albums.
Happy Valentine’s Day (a day late) and thanks so much for checking out our Weekly Wednesday blog this week on some of our past client editing work and the different levels of editing. If you or anyone you know needs editing work done for anything small-scale to large-scale, we are currently finishing up a website dedicated to editing. In the meantime though, feel free to have them reach out to us via email at: info@jennyandjasonphoto.com