On the weekend of November 5th/6th this year I’m conducting a nature photography + Lightroom weekend workshop in Brisbane, again in partnership with my friend Michael Snedic. We will start out covering photography techniques and practice in a workshop at Australia Zoo, and then we spend all of the Sunday …
I maintain a large keyword dictionary in my Lightroom catalogs (with thousands of different keywords), and use these in various ways: to categorise images, to find images of specific animals/people/subjects, to note which filters (e.g. C-PL) were used (this feeds back into the ways I process some images), and even …
I usually have all my photos GPS-encoded (“geocoded”) where possible. All my images end up in Lightroom, and when exporting images from there I can control which get the GPS data stripped (e.g. Lightroom has “zones” you can mark as private). By having the location data in the Lightroom catalog, …
One question I often get asked by clients is what sort of laptop they should bring on a photography expedition. Some have elected to use systems very similar to mine, but there are in fact many choices. For a long time my main computer was a 15″ laptop which I …
Keyboard shortcuts As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I tend to use keyboard shortcuts a lot in Lightroom. If I want to crop an image I will press ‘r‘, and later either press ‘r‘ again to go to the plain Develop module, or ‘e‘ to hop back to the Library’s …
When reviewing my photographs I find it incredibly useful to have the camera’s EXIF data easily accessible whenever I need it. But there many things it doesn’t record.
Processing your photos typically involves lots of steps. You need to decide which images to use, how to develop them (including cropping), and which ones to delete.
