As I am confident with Photoshop and other Adobe programs I decided before my shoots that I would edit my own images to ensure I got the finished look I wanted, and also so that I didn't have to ask too much of the photographers.
The photographer for my colour gels shoot, Ellie Mitchell, offered to edit the final images for me which was great. I met up with her ad selected around 20 final images, and let her know that I would like 12 to choose from, and from those 12 I featured 8.
For my second and third shoots I didn't have a photographer, so all of the image production was down to me which was fine as I am confident in this area.
With the New Forest shoot the main adjustments I had to make were to the exposure as the camera showed everything to be much lighter and more contrasted than it actually was. There were a few edges of the pieces which needed blending in a little more as I was really rushed when doing the makeup, but nothing too major.
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The Leaf shoot images were a little more difficult as again the images came out much darker than they looked on the camera. I wish I had taken the time to look for a Mac and shot tethered for this shoot as it wouldn't have taken much effort at all and would have improved the images so much.
My model has quite bad eczema so there were quite a few patches of discoloration on his skin, including his arms which contrasted quite a lot with his back as his back was quite yellow toned whereas his arms were quite red. I learned how to do this by looking at a variety of tutorials on Youtube and photography websites, as well as playing around with different tools on Photoshop.
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