![]() I can quickly edit those and remove them from the catalog. so when my 6th category (Behind the Scenes) ingests into Lightroom, it shows up color labeled as “none,” which is fine. You’ll see in Lightroom you can only transfer 5 colors over …. One thing I have done is changed the colors in both programs to be similarly labeled (Red for Family/Formals, Yellow for Getting Ready, Green for Reception, Blue for Details and Purple for Ceremony) you can do this by changing your settings in Lightroom, you go Metadata>Color Label Sets>Edit. So the red transfers as red, yellow as yellow, etc. The images automatically go to the next image as soon as I categorize it, and I can zoom in if I need to check for focus and sharpness, very quickly.Īnd the best part? When I ingest the images from Photo Mechanic into Lightroom … the color classed Categories will actually transfer over. I hit 1 for Red (Family/Formals), 2 for Yellow (Getting Ready), etc. To set the color classed categories in Photo Mechanic, it’s literally as simple as 1-2-3-4-5. ![]() Some photographers will use the color classes to designate how much they love an image, but, I like my weddings to be super organized it just makes my life easier, and let’s be honest – anything I can do to make my life easier is something I’m going to do. You can even change the colors, if you want. To set your color label preferences in Photo Mechanic, you’ll go to Photo Mechanic>Preferences>General. I can easily go through each image individually to check for technical qualities (focus, exposure, etc.) and for story-telling qualities (genuine smiles, keeping in line with our branding and style, flattering poses, etc.) … and I can quickly go “yes-no-yes-yes-no-yes” and move all the “no’s” to the Trash category with a simple press of a button. I will organize my weddings into 5 Main Categories: Details, Getting Ready, Ceremony, Reception and Family/Formals I also add on a Behind The Scenes and Trash category, for fun shots we take of each other shooting and to categorize the images we do not want. Photo Mechanic is strictly for culling (picking and choosing) images and also for organizing them into categories. With Photo Mechanic, it’s darn-near instant!! I’ve gone from devoting an entire 6-8 hour culling and organizing day (and sometimes a second day, if I’m particularly distracted) … to only an hour or so. Images take a good 8-10 seconds each to render in Lightroom due to our camera’s file sizes (roughly 35-45mb each in RAW, thankyouverymuch Nikon D800), and when you’re dealing with 3,000 or more photos from a single wedding, you can imagine that culling in Lightroom takes a lot of time. One of the BIG issues I have with culling in Lightroom is how….stinking… slow…it….is. Why can’t you just stick to Lightroom for culling? I honestly don’t know how I ever lived without it, before. Photo Mechanic is an AMAZING tool that I strongly feel every wedding photographer (or heck, any portrait photographer) can benefit from utilizing. ![]() Step 1 of The Post-Wedding Process for me is this magical software known as … Photo Mechanic Today’s blog is going to be the first in a little mini series, “How To Get Your Life Back,” where I am going to detail exactly how I went from taking weeks (okay, let’s be honest: months) to deliver weddings to a mere matter of days it’s essentially how I got my life back, so I wasn’t drowning and dreading the post-wedding process. A year later, I took Julie Paisley’s workshop and she introduced me to Lightroom, and my life has never been the same. I vowed to never shoot another wedding again, or I absolutely HAD figure out a way to make post-production easier. My first wedding? I shot for 16 hours and delivered 100 images, because it took me DAYS and DAYS and DAYS to edit. When I first started my business five years ago, I didn’t know how to use PhotoShop (I actually remember saying, “ it’s too hard“), I had never even heard of Lightroom and I individually edited images with some off-brand photo editing software I bought at Walmart, that was actually supposed to be used for digital scrapbooking. What if I told you that you could turn a full-day wedding around in a matter of DAYS rather than weeks, all without outsourcing? What if I essentially told you …. What if I told you it was possible to cull and organize a full-day wedding in less than one, singular, 60-minute hour?
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