My approach to editing digital photos starts with skin tone. I photograph people of all different skin tones and to me, nailing the skin tone is the most fundamental part of my editing process. So regardless of any stylistic edits I make, the skin tone has to be correct. From there I make global edits on contrast, highlights, shadows, color, clarity, etc. I like to keep the photos feeling “true-to-life” but enhanced with some stylistic edits, or maybe putting the photo in black & white if it seems like that would enhance the emotion of the image.