A peek at the editing process (Patreon)

Hey friends! Sitting down to edit my Thumbelina photos this morning and I just wanted to give you a little sneak peek into the process of culling the shots for editing! For context, I shot 174 photos yesterday, and these 22 are the ones I picked out as the best.

Many of those 174 were duplicate poses (I often shoot 5-10 different images for every pose, tweaking things like camera angle, posing, and expression to make sure I get it right!) and there's a strong probability that I will not edit the entire set of 22. You can see that there are even some duplicate poses in here! This is because until I have the stock photos ready for the composites (e.g., I'm going to shoot some photos of my hand so that I can have some photos of Thumbelina holding onto a thumb) I can't know for sure which shot will work better for it.

This is in Lightroom Classic, by the way! I only recently started incorporating Lightroom into my photo editing process, but it's been a huge help during the initial stages of editing.