Post production methods involve using a computer to touch up your equine photographs after you've taken them. Learn about equine photography post production methods with help from an equine photographer in this video clip.
Hi, my name is Jennifer Munson. I'm the Owner of Jennifer Munson Photography. I've a question that is before me is discuss post production methods. For me, when I am completed the shoot, what I do is I go home and I take my, I use SD card as my digital camera and I download them onto my hard drive. And I use a program called Lightroom which makes downloading pretty easy and you can make Lightroom basically go two separate drives. I think it's important for people to have two different kinds of backups. You know, if you have only your images stored on one hard drive, chances are sometime in that lifetime in those images, that drive will crash. And if you don't have a second copy, you sure are going to be in trouble. And I know this might sound okay but I truly believe in having your images also on CDs and I know CDs and DVDs deteriorate faster, but, you know, unfortunately, a hard drive has gone down on me and I've been lucky enough to say, "Oh, thank God, I have a CD of that", and I can re-put it back on my, my hard drive. So, I've really do recommend that. The system that I use for my hard drive is basically called a Draw Bow and the nice thing about Draw Bow is basically it's station with several hard drives in it. And the software that Draw Bow uses makes continual backups. So, perhaps, you know, one hard drive fail, hopefully, the other drives, if the software is working correctly, it should pickup those other images. It should already be making dual copies. So, I really do recommend that. As far as going through the images, sometimes during a photo session, you can take as many as, you know, if you're doing Rolex or The World Equestrian Games, you may have taken five, six hundred images. That's a long time to go through and when you're doing a business, time is money. So, a lot of photographers are using Lightroom III; it's in Adobe software imaging program. Basically what it does is it helps catalog your images. Once you import your images into Lightroom, you can see almost like a film strip of them; you can go through them quickly, you can do adjustments quickly, it saves a lot of time because most photographers we want to be outside behind the camera as oppose to inside behind our computers.
