Why Edit Your Photos?

Friends has been asking me, why do I spend so much time in post editing of my photos? For some strange reasons, I find post editing really fun but as tedious and time consuming. For me, capturing images is just the start of the photography workflow, more time is spent in editing.

I am not promoting about anyhow capture now and deal with it later mentality. Good composition and mastering the basic techniques is still the fundamental and should always be applied. You should know the rules first before breaking it. I am talking about post editing to enhance whatever is possible to make a photo even better, to emphasize the content.

Most of my photography work (personal) has piled up due to this reason of insisting to post edit. The moment I let my work sit there, I tend to forget and let it be. So it's my personal habit now to start editing as soon as possible for paid assignment. It will be a easy job for me if I just shoot and deliver, but I don't do that.

Another reason why I do a lot of editings is that I wanted to infuse my own style into the photo, a concoction of editing recipes I have created over time. I presumed why my work is chosen partly because of this.