Post Production Question

[rateeg]

Hi.
If someone took a bad picture and it's possible to improve it on photoshop or any other editing programs, do a photographer still be worried about a good photo taken?

 

[Robin Usagani]

Photos can only be improved a little bit. If you manipulate the photos with photoshop, it takes a lot of time. But if the photo is blurry, then you are out of luck.

 

[pwrstrk02]

i think you can make the blurriest photos be very clear. they do it all the time on CSI Las Vegas.

 

[KmH]

Hi.
If someone took a bad picture and it's possible to improve it on photoshop or any other editing programs, do a photographer still be worried about a good photo taken?

Bad in what way?

Out of focus cannot be 'fixed'. Bad composition might be improved with a crop. Exposure errors might be correctable with a parametric image editor.

It is always better to get it as close to right in the camera as possible.

 

[BuS_RiDeR]

i think you can make the blurriest photos be very clear. they do it all the time on CSI Las Vegas.

Hahaha! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[nonamexx]

I think a potentially good picture can be made great with (restrained) post-processing, but a bad image can never be made good.

 

[BuS_RiDeR]

I think a potentially good picture can be made great with (restrained) post-processing, but a bad image can never be made good.

+1

 

[sobolik]

I've been taking photos for 30 years. I expect about 30% will make the final cut. Do I worry about the 70%? No that is just the way it goes. Once in a while the pose, the subject, the lighting etc will be kind of on the unusual or on the rare side and it did not turn out great. Then I will give a lot of effort to trying to rescue that one with PP

 

[ngaerlan]

I use Apple Aperture along Nik softwares, and I find the combination between the 2 softwares work really well with bringing out the colors, and the details in all my photos.

ninogphotography.com

 

[PASM]

What?

Hi.
If someone took a bad picture and it's possible to improve it on photoshop or any other editing programs, do a photographer still be worried about a good photo taken?