Post-Processing Quotes

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

I don't think there's a Photoshop professional out there that doesn't owe a significant chunk of their expertise - and a big debt of gratitude - to Bruce Fraser. He almost single-handedly shaped the way we work with color, how we process RAW images in Photoshop, and even how we sharpen our photos.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I think some people are under the impression that you can simply just shoot it on blue, and then it's all done in post. But no, you really need to understand the pipeline, from beginning to end.