GoingCandid

Post Processing
Forget about Photoshop
A lot of photographers think that they need Adobe Photoshop to really be a
good photographer. Sure it’s the best tool to process your photos on the market.
It is also the most expensive and most complex one. In street photography
post processing is not as important as in beauty or fashion photography.
You will not be a better photographer using Adobe Photoshop. I remember
a comment from Siegfried Hansen (one of the best street photographers
in Europe) in a forum that he is using a 10 year old version of Adobe
Photoshop Elements to process his photos. And even there, he uses some automated
processes only. He works with his excellent eye and the rest is not
relevant to him. Very interesting to see…
The least amount of time
In my opinion you should spend the least amount of time possible in front of
your processing software. This time is wasted as there is only a small amount
of improvement you can achieve on your photos with processing. Or in other
words the main tasks of this process should be automated. Another thing is to
ensure that you use the same style of processing to get your own style. I don’t
have a style at the moment to be honest. I change from B&W to color and vice
versa.
What is the best tool?
There is no best tool in processing. The best for me is a tool which helps me
automating and which also can be used to organize my photos. I use Apple
Aperture in the latest version for that. It’s about the same as Adobe Lightroom.
There I can organize my “keepers” and sort them by the city they were
taken in. I always remember the city, when I look at a photo. For me this is the
best solution and I use Photoshop very seldom, but not for my street photos.