Four Simple Ways to Improve Your Photography Workflow
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Loading... - Noah Arthur
- 01 Feb 2023
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Your digital photography workflow is an important consideration regardless of the type or style of photography in which you work. You will want to know what it means to have a photography workflow, why a streamlined yet comprehensive workflow in photography is advantageous, and what techniques, tips, and products can help you with your photography workflow.
What a Photography Workflow Is
What is a digital photography workflow? Simply put, it’s the progression of steps required to create a finished image. For professional photographers working full-time, part-time, or doing gig work, it also includes finishing the job, getting paid, and setting up for future business.
We all know how to take good pictures. What we’re talking about with a photography workflow is everything we need to do from start to finish. This includes taking the photo but also requires so much more. The tips to follow will benefit an absolute beginner up to a seasoned, in-demand professional.
Ways to Improve a Photography Workflow
One of the best ways to improve our photography workflow is to take a lesson from the masters. As you probably know, Ansel Adams was among my greatest inspirations for getting started in my main joy of photography, landscape photography.
Here’s how looking at a master like Ansel Adams can help our photography workflow: previsualize. Ansel Adams and Fred Archer invented the Zone System in the 1940s just for that purpose. Ansel Adams was a landscape photographer, and Fred Archer was a portrait photographer. Both worked primarily in black and white film and created incredible images with amazing detail in the shadows and the highlights of each scene.
We sometimes think about the Zone System as an exposure and contrast guide, but using it as Adams and Archer intended, requires a person to consider the entire job step by step. Read More…
