Lossy is great for basic license release to use.
Tiff is what you give for people who have bought the license to use and edit
and RAW is what you give when they buy the outright photo on proviso that you can have a Jpeg copy for portfolio.
Sorry to say but, if your having to edit your photos then your not a good enough photographer full stop.
Everything you need to get good a good image is in real life, post effects reduce the overall quality and value of the image.
If there is someone in your shot you don't want, then remove them by asking, it's faster, ad obviously more realistic than a clone stamp and saves time in post.
If there is an item in the way of a shot, move yourself don't remove it! Edit only if necessary, don't be a lazy photographer because it costs you.
And here is how:
You need to boost your price to compensate for editing time but if your taking more than 2 shots like in (HDR) you have wasted the value of the third photo here is why:
If your doing a complex effect like a Special effect, High Dynamic Range or Element Editing then adding a single editing cost won't help:
This shot required took 5 pictures of different poses to mash together of me alone, and then about 50 stock images of mechanical parts under the right lighting.
Thats 57 photos in one give or take for a few that were binned during edit.
I posted it before as an example of planning as it is still not finished but this is also a good example of how many photos are needed for a single effect.
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Editing is charged on top of your photography, you include in the editing costs,wit overheads and markup. After this your roughly drawing less than even with one photo less the rest you include so for every other photo your adding your removing the value of that photo entirely.
This means that I can make room for the value of one photo in a whole days worth of professional editing!
How many photos can I take in a day? A lot, so I am losing out becuase I am editing and so are you.
For special effects you have very little choice about editing. You can augment editing time with make up and clothing but effects require digital manipulation.
Your static photos need to be hot off the camera and sizzle as they are, they only need *processing* into their output formats
Converting the Craw to Tiff is an edit under the bracket of processing, and takes time but you can save this via Batch, if you are good enough then you will only need batch processing jobs for everything else your wasting your time, because the computer can batch process while your out doing another shoot!
If you are manipulating the image then you aren't working with a photo you are working as an artist.
If your a photographer you sell photos not digital art.
Sad fact is alot of photographers online are not taught this distinction and waste a good day sat in a small room on thier arse taking time to tweak one photo because they haven't got the skills to make it good through the camera they have to edit and as a Multimedia Designer I can see it.
It takes a week to build a full port folio of good photography if you have the drive and if you have the drive you will be selling those photos, to magazines and newspapers and clients.
Also Who am I to tell you your wrong well...
First and foremost I am a Multimedia Designer, by profession I can use all adobe programs in the master collection and including indesign, I can also 3D model in Max Maya and Cinema 4D I have 5 years hands on experience with rigging film sets for studio and on location shooting, for moving an still pictures.
I know a lorry load about post poduction costs and editing solutions and what makes a good photographer good.
Common signs of photoshop tampering and bad photography are things like:
Eyes being too bright or contrasted and way to sharp compared to the model, skin too matte -
no lines or character in the face of the model
flat features or too much contrast to compensate for the fact the air brushing has been used,
forced emotion in the model,
cartoon style proportions and colours,
sespension of disbelief in the reality of the scene,
Worst of all, people are looking at the effects added over the total image like "wow look at how clear her eyes are".
Here is an image I mocked up recently as a parody of this effect I did the other day in a tutorial I was doing for 2 photographers working for a local magazine as a demo, and yes I do want to teach.
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Who am I to tell you your wrong in editing???
Well if you followed that link in a new tab, click to the next on the photo, I am the guy with a greenpatch on my left arm standing between two guys.
That green patch is a signed photo pass and those Guys are Jaret and Eric from Bowling For Soup.
Thats who I am as a photographer someone who turns up at a gig with just a camera and a ticket, and gets a signed photopass and meets the band.
You are the sum of your actions and if your editing then your photography skills are faked, and if your photography is fake then your a phoney simple as that, you need to stop worrying about post editing, that won't help you get that dynamic range in batch, just serve to under mine your own talent and waste your valuable shooting time.
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