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
ENROLL HERE!
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Editing Essentials: Lightroom Secrets that will Change your LIFE
Kylee Ann Maughan is a family and international brand photographer based in small-town Northern Utah. She has been a business owner for 13.5 years, and also runs a successful and award-winning associate team. Kylee hosts semi-annual retreats, speaks at conferences and teaches online courses about running a small business and marketing. Her niche in coaching is helping moms turn their passion into profit, while being the mom they dream of.
September 17, 2018
Kylee Maughan
