Hi Alicia, I really love this week diary thing, I find it very useful. I feel like I will start doing it myself (privately). Sometimes a week passes and I think I didn’t do a lot (and most of the times it is based on the assumption of ALL the things I wanted to do). But in reality there’s always some activity and some movement. Also a question: when do you decide to outsource your retouching and when do you do it yourself? Just based on client budget? Do some clients directly ask for images to be retouched by someone else? Thank you! 💛
Thanks Elena - glad you like it :) Retouching is something I've become pretty good at over the years so, where possible, I'll do it myself to save the money going to someone else. On larger, more 'commercial' type jobs there's usually a separate retouching budget and I'll weigh up the level of retouching needed and if it's within my skill level and the time I have available, to decide whether it's something I'll take on myself or commission out to someone else more specialised. At the moment i'm really overbooked with shoots, so I'm delegating some of the retouching out to other people as I just don't have enough hours in the day to complete everything within the deadlines - there's been so much rain here in UK lots of shoots have been delayed so the schedule I had outlined for post-prod on each shoot has gone a bit tits up as everyone wants the pictures in time for Spring launches - so even though it's not complicated editing, if I don't hand it over to someone else I'll risk annoying the clients by delivering late and working all hours which isn't healthy, so it's a case of weighing up priorities. If there's a specific usage of the image which is OOH (out of home), POS (point of sale) or large scale print, i'll always delegate to someone else and make sure that's accounted for in the budget before shooting the project - it's a specialism so you'll get the right results using the real professionals!
Thank you, Alicia! As always very helpful and makes total sense!
No worries :)
Hi Alicia, I really love this week diary thing, I find it very useful. I feel like I will start doing it myself (privately). Sometimes a week passes and I think I didn’t do a lot (and most of the times it is based on the assumption of ALL the things I wanted to do). But in reality there’s always some activity and some movement. Also a question: when do you decide to outsource your retouching and when do you do it yourself? Just based on client budget? Do some clients directly ask for images to be retouched by someone else? Thank you! 💛
Thanks Elena - glad you like it :) Retouching is something I've become pretty good at over the years so, where possible, I'll do it myself to save the money going to someone else. On larger, more 'commercial' type jobs there's usually a separate retouching budget and I'll weigh up the level of retouching needed and if it's within my skill level and the time I have available, to decide whether it's something I'll take on myself or commission out to someone else more specialised. At the moment i'm really overbooked with shoots, so I'm delegating some of the retouching out to other people as I just don't have enough hours in the day to complete everything within the deadlines - there's been so much rain here in UK lots of shoots have been delayed so the schedule I had outlined for post-prod on each shoot has gone a bit tits up as everyone wants the pictures in time for Spring launches - so even though it's not complicated editing, if I don't hand it over to someone else I'll risk annoying the clients by delivering late and working all hours which isn't healthy, so it's a case of weighing up priorities. If there's a specific usage of the image which is OOH (out of home), POS (point of sale) or large scale print, i'll always delegate to someone else and make sure that's accounted for in the budget before shooting the project - it's a specialism so you'll get the right results using the real professionals!