Chapter 15. My Portrait Workflow

my step-by-step process from the shoot to the final print

Photo by Scott Kelby | Exposure: 1/125 | Focal Length: 70mm | Aperture Value: f/10

If you’ve come to this chapter, you’ve either already invested a lot of time and energy in learning these techniques, or you just bought the book, and flipped right to this chapter, in which case you’re one of those rabble-rousers who flaunt the time-honored tradition of book reading (where you start at Chapter 1 and work your way tirelessly through the book), and instead just jump to where the “good stuff” is hidden in the back. I’m going to assume you’re not that person. Instead, I’ll pretend you worked hard to get here, and therefore deserve a treat (Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy?). Thus far, the book has been one chapter on this topic, and another on that—one on importing, and another on editing; one on organizing, and another on printing. But I thought it would be helpful for you to see it all come together—to see the entire process from beginning to end—and I thought I would even include the details of the photo shoot. Why? Because it takes up more pages, and publishers love that, because they think what readers want is more pages. In f....