Is retouching usually included in photography packages?

knottie88d0234b5fdc8e3b

I'm looking at a photographer with a very affordable wedding package; however, in the contract (which we haven't yet signed) it notes that no retouching will be done whatsoever and if we want any minor retouching, it will be $25/photo and major retouching would be $125/photo. I'm not super picky and don't expect a ton of editing to be done, but am a little wary that the pictures may not look like they were done professionally if there is no retouching at all. Is it normal for photography packages to exclude all retouching? Are most wedding photos ultimately retouched? The company has very good reviews online, so I'm not sure if I'm just being paranoid or if light retouching is an important aspect of the photos.

Thanks!

ILoveBeachMusic

I'm not sure about most professional photographers, but when we had family pictures done several years ago, a certain number of retouches were included with the package. I had to choose which pictures I wanted retouched. I'm not sure my DD's wedding pictures were retouched at all. I had an obvious bruise on my arm (walked into a spin bike a few day before the wedding). It bothered me that it was so obvious in all the pictures. I ended up getting rid of it with my photo program on my computer. The pictures with me in them were the only ones that I thought needed retouching when I saw them. 

If this is something that is going to bother you, ask the photography how they handle retouching.

charlotte989875

knottie88d0234b5fdc8e3b said:

I'm looking at a photographer with a very affordable wedding package; however, in the contract (which we haven't yet signed) it notes that no retouching will be done whatsoever and if we want any minor retouching, it will be $25/photo and major retouching would be $125/photo. I'm not super picky and don't expect a ton of editing to be done, but am a little wary that the pictures may not look like they were done professionally if there is no retouching at all. Is it normal for photography packages to exclude all retouching? Are most wedding photos ultimately retouched? The company has very good reviews online, so I'm not sure if I'm just being paranoid or if light retouching is an important aspect of the photos.

Thanks!

There’s a difference between retouching vs. editing. Most all wedding photos are edited, ie cropped, filters, focus, etc., but I’d say most are not retouched, ie editing out blemishes, making changes to people/the actual photo. Think of retouching as @ILoveBeachMusic’s example of editing out a bruise, that would be retouching, whereas editing might be a black/white filter or cropping out edges. 

I would expect to pay extra for retouching but not editing. 

knottie6f0bbd6d6d7c6449

Sometimes over touching could be a problem too. I have green eyes and in my wedding pictures, my eyes are kind of black. Lol

knottie7b6bec4da2895f88

Depends on what you mean by retouching. All photographers edit their photos, most even have pre-saved filters, to cut down on editing times. If you mean beauty work, then no, you would have to ask for beauty work, most wedding photographers, I would say almost all of them don't do beauty work, unless you ask them to and even then, that is not necessarily their specialty. I did manage to find one photographer, Graff Lidar that does include beauty work on select photos.