Does the average Joe really notice?

[Photofarmer]

Rodeo season upon us here in my state been asked to photograph 2.
Media pass provides better access/open access.
Basically sell enough to cover fuel not much else mostly barrel racers.

Mostly the iso is at the high end 25600

Anyway got to thinking, culling the basic editing and then maybe extra touch up on the best images which is subjective.
Does the "perfect image perfect edit" really matter to buyers, yes those with photographic eye notice but others do they really care if its slightly overdone with noise or could be more saturated etc etc? I prefer to under edit.

Unless one does fine art or weddings where perfection is the goal, but generally other genre is 90% good enough compared to the 100% image if that makes sense? All takes time.

Im not talking putting up crap images just pursuit of the final touches.

One rodeo did a cull then a bulk basic edit of 300 images then asked if anyone wants more touching up a extra $20 all the images purchased were basic edit none to the extra quality option.

 

[Dean Wilson]

I think if you nail focus, color editing isn't over-board, and the composition is interesting then it's a keeper (or seller). Only a photographer would look beyond that.

 

[Photofarmer]

A guy sent me an image last night with compression issues cant help but notice the chequered pattern. Photographers see faults maybe??

 

[Grumps]

A guy sent me an image last night with compression issues cant help but notice the chequered pattern. Photographers see faults maybe??

Eee. Pixelation.

 

[Archibald]

A guy sent me an image last night with compression issues cant help but notice the chequered pattern. Photographers see faults maybe??

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Must be an extreme crop of the original.

 

[Dean Wilson]

A guy sent me an image last night with compression issues cant help but notice the chequered pattern. Photographers see faults maybe??

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Crop from a phone image?

 

[Photofarmer]

think a R50 with tamron lens of some sort

 

[Only RF]

Unless really bad most people won't notice some noise. Only us pixel peepers will and we will notice many more things the general public won't. People do like vivid colour and pop.

In 2009 I asked to shoot a nighttime football game for a coworkers son. I had a 7D and a 300L F4 IS. Max ISO was 64,00 but I had to push it to 12,800 just to hope to hit 1/500. I only had PS back then and I cleaned them up enough. The family loved the shots even with a little motion blur in the feet and hands at times.

A few years ago I shot the marathon in our city. It was daytime so no NR was required. Even then I would have batched NR and did something else for a while. I started off with a Color Profile that made basic adjustments to the files to get started. All I did was crop, level and tweak exposures. I edited about 500 files in just over an hour.

When I shot weddings sometimes it took me two weeks to finish editing. I was working full time so I only had evenings and weekends and that level of editing can get tiring.

So you gotta know your audience and do freebies or charge based on how much editing you want to do for the event type. For family you would put more time in for free. Some may go all out anyway even of it isn't family or paid for. Everyone has different energy, patience levels and personal pride in their work.

$20 sound good for extra touch ups.

 

[Photofarmer]

err I corrected spelling error or some humour which ever way ya want to view it

 

[Grumps]

err I corrected spelling error or some humour which ever way ya want to view it

Was the original version courtesy of a spell checker?