It's a fairly common attitude in both photo and video work to just assume that a mistake during a shoot can and will be fixed in post, but that can be quite detrimental in a few ways. Here are five reasons to avoid fixing your work in post.
Coming to you from Aputure, this great video talks about five reasons to avoid fixing video work in post (though it applies equally well to photos). I'll admit that for a long time, I would frequently do this for the silliest reason: I didn't want to feel embarrassed in front of a client that I had screwed something up like leaving my bag in the shot. Of course, the truth is that we all make mistakes, and walking over and moving my bag would have taken a lot less time than cloning it out of a bunch of shots in post. Since I got over that fear of embarrassment, I've never had an issue when I've made a mistake in the middle of a shoot and corrected it, and it sure beats spending unnecessary hours at the computer fixing something that would have taken mere seconds to fix had I done it when I recognized the mistake. Check out the video above for more reasons to avoid fixing it after the fact.