{"id":3520,"date":"2021-08-04T02:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffkolodny.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:47:39","slug":"photography-retouching-another-reason-why-you-should-hire-jeff-kolodny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolodnyphoto.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/04\/photography-retouching-another-reason-why-you-should-hire-jeff-kolodny\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Retouching. Another reason why you should hire Jeff Kolodny"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is so much more to photography than simply clicking the camera.<\/h1>\n

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Check out this before and after example. This picture was taken in the middle of August at a park in Fort Lauderdale. Given the heat and humidity there is no way she would not have shiny skin. Further more, the wind caused some hair to stick to her face. \u00a0Actually only a few dark hairs stuck to her face, I have seen much worse. \u00a0When retouching this picture, I used a special technique called Frequency Separation<\/a>.\u00a0 By using this method, I could separate the texture from the color and work with two different layers. \u00a0Most less skilled photographers or retouchers simply blur the skin, or stamp out the bad parts which results in poorly retouched looking faces. \u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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BELOW: Screen shot of Frequency Separation.<\/p>\n

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As a photographer, taking nice pictures is a necessary skill. \u00a0Having the ability to capture special moments, combined with posing skills & the ability to compose pictures correctly are all critical elements of any successful photographer. \u00a0When people hire a photographer for a wedding, engagement photo session, family portrait, Bat \/ Bar Mitzvah, model session or any other type of imagery that includes a person, there is one underlying factor to consider. \u00a0People want to look good! \u00a0It’s not just that people want to look good, people also want their pictures in general to look good. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This picture was taken during a family portrait session at a Boca Raton beach. Many South Florida vacationers don’t realize how easy it is to get sunburned. As a result I often find myself fixing sunburn marks. In the above picture, I had to turn the red sunburned skin back to normal skin color, then blend the two tones together.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In photography, what you see is what you get. \u00a0Until the image is enhanced or retouched by a skilled Photoshop retoucher.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

BELOW: \u00a0<\/strong>This picture was taken my another photographer, the couple in this picture loved this picture and was devastated that this picture was shot with this aweful light streak. \u00a0When they reached out to me, they told me that would be willing to pay anything to have this picture fixed. \u00a0As a South Florida professional photographer, I find delivering pictures like this unacceptable. \u00a0Lighting streaks such as this could be eliminated by changing the camera position. there are several different ways to do this without greatly changing the shot. \u00a0One option is for the photographer to move back and them zoom in, or move to the side, In this case a move to the left would have solved the problem. \u00a0Of course the family would have to shift their position. \u00a0 In addition a lens shade would have eliminated the glare. \u00a0At a recent family photo session I had experienced the same problem. \u00a0However, I checked my work, saw the glare and changed position. \u00a0 Fixing this photo required several steps. \u00a0First, I removed the lighting effect on the woman’s outfit by utilizing a combination of color adjustments and cloning the color from her dress. \u00a0This was tedious because of the fine detail. \u00a0The much more difficult part was fixing the guy’s shirt. \u00a0This was accomplished by cutting parts of the top of his shirt and then relocating the pieced to the glared part of his shirt. \u00a0The detailed pattern of his shirt was a challenge to reproduce.<\/p>\n

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I did not take this picture. I was hired to fix this picture which was taken by another photographer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BELOW: \u00a0CLICK PLAY TO SEE RETOUCHING IN ACTION.<\/span><\/p>\n