Culling wedding photos (my job) is a necessary first step in the editing process. It consists mostly of looking closely (VERY CLOSELY) at each of the thousands of photographs Erin and I take at a wedding and chucking out all the photos where the bride is picking at a clump of mascara or a palm tree is seemingly sprouting from the groom's head or the father of the bride is smiling brilliantly but blinking his heart out. I also have to narrow down any photos (especially wedding portraits) that are redundant. (Seriously, sometimes we take so many photographs we could make a flipbook.) And there's always the photographs that are just plain blurry or where the focus isn't quite tack-sharp.
But of course, we always set aside our test-shots, like the one above, for posterity. I keep trying to tell Erin that at least some of our wedding couples might want them, but she says no.
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Erin, Phil, & Scout
The Airstream Post-Production Lab
At the corner of Civilization & Crowded
Phoenix, AZ