I'll do a before and after of one of mine.

Stock: It's a decent shot out of the camera. A little dark because I was working with some low light. But all in all it's decent.



Edited: I'm a warm color whore. I love warming colors. While trying not to overdue editing, I like drastic colors.

Screw clean. My way of looking at it is I'd rather have people come to me for a job because they like my style, versus because I'm the lowest price. There are a lot of very talented photographers in my state but their problem is a lot of them look the same. I'm always about uniqueness in all of my art forms.

Honestly, it's ~2 stops under exposed. It's easy to nail, don't been afraid to use ~800 iso. It's okay if it's exposed correctly. Noise only gets really bad when you're pushing ;/



I'll give you some advice. Don't get stuck in the mindset that you have your own style and "stick" with it. You will stagnate, fast. It's the kind of job where you have to watch, learn, adapt and alter your habits. Constantly try new things. Push boundaries, more importantly, your own boundaries. Try checking out international work, not just what's happening locally and from all walks of photography.. ie. fine art, fashion/high fashion, classic portraiture etc to get a feel of what's happening outside the bubble.

You're too young to have a style mate. It will change. And often.

This post was edited by lithfkn on Oct 9 2012 12:59am

I'm 24, I'm an old man! Lol. Nah I experiment a lot, but none the less my look still carries with everything I do.

Tell me, what exactly is your look?

Is it the way you shoot or the way you process?

This post was edited by lithfkn on Oct 9 2012 02:48am

Both, just the way I do things all around. Like I said I experiment but no matter what people can always tell it's my work.

Well no.
Maybe I am lazy but if you are shooting a wedding or a really important event you have to take a lot of photos and you have to edit every single photo, I don't really do this, but I pick like 50-100 pictures which are the best and edit them.
If it's not under/overexposed and you set the right whitebalance then I won't edit it unless it's worth to do it

oh, well i am not a pro photographer but why? you edit in photoshop? every single photo? example if you take 1000-1500 picture in wedding, do you edit it one by one?