hey guys welcome back thanks for joining me today we're gonna go through
Lightroom workflow
I'm going to be really honest with you guys because
things have changed given the crisis that is happening right now
it is April of 2020 if you're coming here from the future in the situation I
lost clients for my actual day job but then have since gained a lot of them and
now it's really busy so I'm gonna try and record a few videos in the day that
I record videos and then edit them so if I look exactly the same
including the same clothing in the same hair the same makeup and the same
blemishes let's not forget then that's probably because I was already recording
another video either before or after this I hope that that makes you guys
feel loved because I'm giving up my very few free days again how times have
changed life's gone flipped all upside down I'd like to take a minute just sitting
right here to tell you how to take photography pictures that others will
fear in today's video what we're going to be doing is we're gonna be in
Lightroom so make sure you've got Lightroom open and I'm gonna walk you through
exactly what I do from import to export without the editing bit in there there
are loads of editing videos that I have done so if you want to see a full edit
of one image broken down into easy steps then head to this series which is
linked above and if you want something super specific either drop it in the
comments below or check out my recent uploads and yeah let's go hello
everybody this shoot was done in 2013 on the 29th of July so we are you know
close to being 10 years ago here and this was when I literally just started
out as an actual real-life dog photographer with a portable studio so
this shoot is done in the clients home and that is important to note because
this would not be a setup that you would have in a studio however like I said
this was about 12 bazillion years ago so don't judge me okay the purpose of this
is basically to go through how I would handle and cull
all of the files this current folder is literally all of the files from that
whole shoot so we're on 491 photographs what you want to do is you want to go
ahead and import the images to Lightroom if you don't know how to do that just
you know go ahead and watch a YouTube video or whatever to import your images
over and catalogue them in your hard drives and your folder system if you
don't know how to do that then let me know because I'll just make another
video with that in it so how do I handle my files well first of all you want to
go over into the develop module and then at what you want to go ahead and do is
go down into the bottom here where it's filter and you want to do filter and then you
want to pick flagged I'm hoping you guys can see that over there so yeah you want
to pick flagged and then that will automatically go on to anything that is
flagged we have not flagged a single thing and therefore we click the middle
flag as well which is everything that is unflagged what that does is it leaves
aside and we don't click on the last flag which is rejected now interesting
thing here is that you use your keyboard to flag stuff so we're gonna separate
the wheat from the chaff the good from the bad the selected from the rejected
and how we're gonna do that is we're gonna use two keys X and P X means bin
it off get rid gone buh-bye now P means pick selected winner winner
chicken dinner are you with me so what we want to do is we want to go ahead and
just put some like basic stuff basic adjustments you know things like white
balance that suit the whole shoot we do want to be able to make sure we can go
into 100% this is technically 200% but
we're not going to be picky about that basic edits we're looking at things like
exposure your white balance we're looking at highlights shadows we're
going to leave the blacks because that's an individual image situation we can
also if you want to look at texture clarity dehaze vibrance and saturation
as well as your core other changes which are sharpening if you are struck
on how to do your sharpening I will link a video up here open it in a new tab and
finish watching this one first yeah you just want to go ahead and make your
first amendments
like so when you're happy that you have made the correct changes for the shoot I
know I went outside at the end of this shoot so I'm going to stop at the bit
where I didn't go outside but we've got the first image selected can we see that
here we've got the first image selected we're going to go ahead and go to the
last of the photographs taken in the same setting ta da we're gonna hold down
the shift key and then we're gonna click on the last picture and then
we're gonna go sync and we're gonna just check everything because we've not done
anything else and we're gonna press synchronize and what that does is that
puts all of those things that we've just done on all of those pictures so now
what do we do is use your arrow keys on your keyboard to flick through and
reject images that are soft what do we mean by soft this is soft this is sharp
this is the eye this is soft so we X off rejected and it disappears
from the bar at the bottom however it still exists it's just in the rejected
flag pile this is you know half and half and we're just going to go through and
first things first is remove anything that is soft
okay so once you've done that you can go right back to the start of all of your
pictures and then what you can do now is you can pick your images based on what
looks good and know that every single one of them is in focus so what we're
going to do now is we're going to go through and essentially select the
images that are the best in terms of what the subject is giving us so for
this for the purposes of this I'm really looking for the literally the best of
the best in terms of what I can make into a stunning portrait not what I
would present to a client so I'm gonna cull this harsher than you guys
should you can always do one or two or three different passes through the
images and what you want to completely avoid is too many that are super similar
so let's take for example these head shots of the mother here so if I hold
down the shift key and just select these head shots and then head back out to the
library section and then view it as this the like loupe one what
that does is it brings up what I have selected just here now if I was to
present all of those pictures I mean none of them amazing but if I was to
present all of those to the client they would find it really hard to pick
the best picture from them when actually I can just go ahead and make this
process so much easier by picking between the similar ones so this is this
one and this one and to be honest I do prefer that one and then these three
are extremely similar so we want to pick the best one I'm gonna go with that one
and just like that we've whittled them down so you want to go ahead and keep
using your X key to reject anything that you think is less than amazing and you
want to keep anything that is amazing by pressing the P on your keyboard
okay anything that is absolutely blowing the world away because it's so freaking
amazing you need to go ahead and press the 5 key number 5 on your keyboard and
what that does is that gives it a star rating it makes it super easy to be able
to go back and find your best photographs later on so I'm gonna go
ahead and follow the principles of this like I said I'm looking for the best of
the best so I'm gonna press X on anything that isn't absolutely stunning
and absolutely you know impressive in terms of a piece of portraiture
so I'm gonna look at all of them again what would be my five-star pics
I think this these two when they are merged together will be amazing I think this is
amazing and I think this is amazing I'm gonna pick the rest just so that we're
fully covered so once you've finished anything that's left is your picked
pictures so if you take off the not-flagged tag you will just be left with the
pictures that you are gonna go ahead and edit now at this stage you can use
Lightroom to do your pre edits if you're moving into Photoshop afterwards or at
this stage you can go ahead and export to open in Photoshop just select all of
them and you want to then go ahead and do file export and then in export you
want to go ahead and pick your folder that you're going to export these images
to this is edited RAW files we choose that
one there okay don't have any of these checked we're still on specific folder
we're renaming to Labradoodle puppy re-edit because it's 2020 and this is a
re-edit and then the image format that you want to use if you're sending them
out to edit in Photoshop is DNG which is a digital negative file that will
retain all of your information with it if you're exporting because you've
finished go ahead and use the JPEG setting you want to make sure quality is
set at 100 on JPEG srgb don't resize to fit resolution at 300 you can sharpen for
screen low or medium either way and then export and off it'll go like I said
we're going to do it as a DNG file so we're going to go DNG we're going to
set it to the newest version of Camera Raw that you guys have available the
JPEG preview is irrelevant use lossy compression make sure that it's
unchecked and make sure embed original raw file is selected then export and
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