An important part of my job as digital editor of Hero Images is to perform quality assurance checks on all of the images. A final sweep is done to check the colour, remove any branding, and to double-check that all the retouch has been completed properly.
My favourite aspect of QA is what I call the Easter Egg Hunt. This is when I enlarge each photo to 100% and look at sections instead of the entire image all at once. Play along with me. See if you can spot what often gets overlooked when you don’t look at the image at 100% ...
Spot The Crew Member
The Disembodied Foot
Two people sit down to breakfast and their laptops...
... but whose foot belongs to that snazzy sock on the bottom right? Let's just scrub that out!
Spot The Tears
Our art directors bring pages of photos, called tears, on set for visual inspiration. I can’t count the number of times they’ve appeared in a shot...do you see them?
Who The Heck Is That?
It’s our policy to have all our models sign a release.
but sometimes it’s difficult to control people popping into a shot accidentally, so they have to be removed from the photograph. Bye bye, Jogger.
Have any questions about this process? Let me know in the comments.