Editing

Now comes the fun part! Now I will take the roughly 500 photos I shot yesterday, look through them with iPhoto, pull the good ones into Photoshop, and do any touch-up work that is required. For all the formal shots, I usually take three of each so I know I'll have one good one. You want to account for people blinking, not smiling, etc, plus you want to take a shot exposed correctly, one that's overexposed, and one that's underexposed, just in case your meter isn't quite reading correctly. It's a lot of shots to take, but when you're shooting digital and you don't use up any film, so who cares, right? The iPhoto is something I'm really using for the first time, and unfortunately for you PC users, it's only on the Mac. It allows me to easily import all my photographs from the memory cards, then look through them all and decide which ones I'll run through Photoshop. I used to pull them all into Photoshop, but this is much easier. I really love it. It will take me about a week to go through all the pictures, sice I prefer to process them in bite-sized chunks. It would be far too tedious to do them all at once, and I really want to do the best job I can. I do admit, however, that as tedious as this part can be, looking at all the shots for the first time with digital is a close as you can get to the excitement of cracking open that envelope of fresh prints and seeing all the shots you took with your film camera. It's not quite the same, but it's close.