Tanya's School of Dance Editing

Following on from the recent shoot with Tanya's School of Dance, I've just spent a few hours sat at the PC, final editing a few of the shots.

With shoots such as this, despite using my black and white backgrounds in a studio set up, there is still editing required to 'perfect' the shots - not only taking out the edges of the background that may be in shot, but colour correcting and taking out any other imperfections.

Within the world of photography, there is a debate as to how much a PC should be used to edit digital photos, in contrast to the film days where only limited editing could be carried out at the dark room processing stage, but one of the advantages of digital is that the shots can be edited freely, using various software packages to tweak shots and in some cases edit them beyond recognition in to a new work of art.

For me, editing is not a case of transforming the photo in to something too far away from what the camera sees, only refining the image to make it cleaner and more professional. Whilst the well known phrase of "the camera never lies" cannot be said for today's digital images, and whilst it is not strictly true for my images, I do like to think that my photos are a good representation of reality, unless of course the purpose of the shoot is to create unrealistic images!

So, all I've done for the Tanya School of Dance images is clean up the backgrounds and tweak the odd colour to make the colours more representative of real life, making for clean and professional images, and then adding the Tanya's School of Dance logo for a final touch.