These photos are from an old Target job that Jill shot a year or so ago. When going through the images on the white background, I didn't really like any of the photos. The timing and poses were weird and few of them were portfolio worthy in my opinion. Jill wanted these edited for her portfolio. She's trying to create a more diverse portfolio while still showing a lot of commercial work in order to appeal to some department stores and the like.

This is just a screenshot of the now contacts window. Jill uses this to keep track of clients, agencies, and other contacts. We are constantly trying to update the database(finding emails, phone numbers, and any other important information). It's a great program because you can organize contacts into sperate groups and put people onto email lists.

These were shot for the modeling agency. As with the images of Benjamin, I was not at this shoot but I was able to edit the photos. I found fixing the smallest details was very important to Jill. My view on editing is this, editing should be based on what your final product will be. If you know you're shooting for a billboard you would use the best camera available to you in order to get the sharpest image possible. One would also edit the image so it was flawless, the larger the image the more a tiny imperfection will be visible. If you are shooting for a models comp card where the final image is going to be no bigger than 5x7, the amount of editing and attention to small detail (such as a very small wrinkle in the shirt) does not need to be as intense. Yes, there is still a fair amount of editing needed done. But if you have a lot of work to be done with multiple projects, spending a few hours on one picture that isn't going to be very big or important just seems like a waste of time to me. Get what needs to be done and don't waste your time on frivolous editing.

More photoshopped images of Fernanda. I'm really learning a lot and getting more comfortable within photoshop. I used to be a firm believer in doing everything in camera and do as little as possible in photoshop, but there's a lot that I find really helps make the image look completely finished.

Before and afters of Benjamin

 

Today I spent my day editing images of Benjamin. I wasn't present for this shoot but I was able to edit the images for it. Fairly simple since men don't require a lot of retouching.

Before and afters of Fernanda

 

Editing the photos of Fernanda from the first shoot was somewhat frustrating. I had a lot of problems with her hands and feet. It also took awhile to learn how Jill edited and wanted things done. But I think it's important to learn how to edit the way someone else does because you can really learn a lot. For example, I've never used the brush tool as a way to smooth skin and even out color, but Jill uses it a lot. She likes to use it on the background, which I found to be a huge time saver and it's a lot easier than my crappy way of doing it (which was trying to burn and dodge which just looked like crap).

First Day!

Jill Wachter is a fashion photographer based out of New York City and has been working here for 22 years.On my first day Jill had a shoot set up with two models from Ford Models. We were going to be shooting 4 looks for each model and these were going to be new looks for their books. I arrived to the apartment already set up for the shoot. Jill rents some lights in addition to her own lights ands backdrops. During shooting, Jill frequently changes out memory cards and backups up the images to a separate harddrive. This was one job that Honey and I alternated depending on what we might have been doing at the moment. Jill stays very organized. When looking through images with the model, there is a sheet that gets filled out with the image number, model info, model's outfit, and assignment info. I found this very helpful because if I ever have to do something like this, this will help me keep track of every detail and will help ensure proper editing. Jill also stays in contact with the agency throughout the day by sending emails with screen shots of the images that were selected as favorites. I assisted with pretty much everything. I held the fan, cut up pineapple, downloaded images, archived images, burned cds, and took out the trash.