Editing is just as important as capturing the moment when it comes to wedding photography. A great image straight out of the camera is only the starting point—editing brings out the colour and atmosphere, enhances whatever the subject matter is and finishes the image off perfectly.

Every photographer has their own editing style, whether it’s bright and airy, light and faded or dark and moody etc, and that style is a key part of their own creative signature. Understanding how the finished product will look is essential to who you decide is the right photographer for you, as their work as well as their editing style, both shape the overall story and feeling of the wedding day in the photos they produce.

My editing process is key to adding consistency to my work, bringing together images from all kinds of settings, light and subject matters across a wedding day, into a cohesive story. My own style is bold, bright, colourful, and contrasty. I love punchy colours, vibrant, sharp images. Life’s full of colour right! And it’s deliberately timeless rather than chasing trends or faded filter fads that may look dated in a decade or sooner. I’d rather keep it simple and true to life.

To give you a better idea of all of this, here are some before’s (unedited straight out of camera) which you’ll see are duller and flat; and some after’s (edited) which are brighter, punchier, with more details in the shadows like expressions, colour corrected, straightened or cropped – to show you how I treat my RAW, straight out of camera files, and to give you an idea of what my finished images look like. I have presets that I’ve carefully designed to do some of the basic editing, like brightening, contrast, colour temperature adjustments, but then each and every image still gets edited and finished off, one by one. Not by an AI programme, or an external editor, but by me.

Roughly 80% is edited in colour, the rest in black & white. My black & white’s are also contrasty & punchy, not faded or overly processed. Sometimes an image just looks better in B&W, so that’s the decision I make during the post production processing. Oh and please don’t ask me for my original RAW files. I never give or sell them. Full stop.

If you want to learn any more about my editing process, please ask. Read more about how observation is key to my work!