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Everybody is a photographer — Part 4
Post-production
Snapping a photo takes fractions of seconds but what you’ll get after that is not the actual photo. Well, technically it is, but you’re still missing a big chunk of the whole process called “post-production”.
As mentioned before, the act of making a photo is made at least by two steps: taking it and post-produce it. Modern cameras — particularly those of phones — are so well optimized that the output is usually already very good but that doesn’t mean that it still needs some fixes.
Let me add one small detail: the pictures we take with our phone cameras are actually already post-produced via software, even if without any human interaction. When we snap a photo two things happen: the act of taking the photo and an automatic digital post-production. Most of the times the photos we see on our camera roll have been post-produced for clarity, curves, definition. They are “made-up” to look brighter and better. What’s done by the phone is very close to a human post-production, but it’s “take it or leave it”: we don’t have any control over it.
The post-production I’m talking about is also made via software (or apps, if you prefer) by a human: you.
