8. Digital Editing Basics
Figure 8.1. Brown Bear. Nikon D200 f/8.0 1/1000 sec ISO 320
The most important part of the stock photography workflow is what happens in your camera at the moment of capture. You need the best raw material to build the highest-quality images, and the work you did leading up to and including the moment of capture can be considered the acquisition of the building blocks of your image. Digital editing is the process of refining that raw material into the final image. In a raw workflow, there are a few basic adjustments—default rendering, white balance, exposure, contrast, noise reduction, and capture sharpening—you need ...
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