In August 2013, I had three weddings, six senior sessions, six family sessions and one baby session. That’s 16 total sessions. Also, I traveled back and forth to Washington State from Utah twice that month. Both work-cations were longer than a week totaling about 20 days away from home. Oh, and I had a nine month old baby at the time!
I was editing every individual photo by hand back then. I opened up my photos in Adobe Camera Raw then opened each picture one by one in Photoshop cs5 or Photoshop Elements 11. I converted the photos from RAW to JPEG one by one, did skin edits, sharpening, cloning, actions, curves, etc. My work was inconsistent and sloppy, I was the queen of free actions and I was spending HOURS editing photos. This is when I tried Lightroom for the third time.
It was a rough start. I couldn’t get my images to look the way I wanted to right off the bat. I played around with it for a week before I felt comfortable enough to edit my client sessions and a few months later I found my official style.
Now I have a system and I can get an entire wedding edited and returned in less than 24 hours and a portrait session in an hour! (But usually I wait about 7 days for weddings and 3 days for portrait session so I can post sneak peeks while everyone is still excited. I’m a tease.)
Lightroom Changed My Life & It Can Change Yours too! I have SO MUCH extra time with my kids without having to turn clients away because of all these editing secrets I’ve mastered.
Beginner Lightroom Class
In this Lightroom course for Photographers I’ll be sharing everything from the basics of Lightroom functions and tools to making and creating presets, speeding up your workflow and how to solve those hard skin tone problems.
- Module 1: Ins & Outs of Lightroom
- Module 2: Create & Edit Presets
- Module 3: Lightroom Workflow
- Module 4: Three Things I Do to Every Photo
- Module 5: Hard Skin Tones
- Module 6: Using Brushes
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Editing Essentials: Lightroom Secrets that will Change your LIFE
Kylee is the owner and founder of Kylee Ann Studios, where she’s spent more than 15 years building a photography business rooted in creativity, connection, and serving her clients well. She’s a mom, business owner, and photographer who loves making people feel comfortable and capturing the real moments that make their stories unique.
She specializes in commercial and brand photography, family photography, weddings, seniors, newborns, and more throughout Cache Valley and Northern Utah.
September 17, 2018
Kylee Maughan
