Post Production

For these portraits I wanted to crop them tightly and convert them to black and white.

For this I used Serif's Photo Plus X3, and its black and white filter:

Post production is where the differences between digital photography and traditional film photography become very apparent.

With traditional film photography, much of this work, like dodging and burning, has to be carried out in a dark room, although sometimes prints can be edited outside the darkroom, and then the print is re-photographed to produce a new negative. 

With digital photography, software applications such as Adobe's Photoshop, Corel's Paintshop Pro, Serif's Photo Plus to name four software packages are used to edit the digital files on a computer.  Although the range of software is very limited on the Apple Mac computers.

Adobe Photoshop is seen as the standard to which many photographic editing software is measured against.  This application is available for both windows based pcs and Apple Mac computers.