SOOC vs. Final Prints

This is a topic that has been discussed since the dawn of digital photography (and before), but it's one that's worth revisiting because it comes up so often. These days, it's customary for most photographers to provide a disk of images. But much like a proof book from the film days, these images may still need a little refining before they become what I call "Wall-Worthy".

Warming up skin tones and removal of distracting elements are just two of the ways that images taken straight out of the camera (or "SOOC") can be enhanced for a final print. Most of the time the result is subtle, but worth while...

And while any mega mart can take a color image and make it black and white, a professionally printed black and white print will have more depth and contrast...