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Right then, who wants to get an edit

on?

I've just pulled out 100 images from the

archive, some images are big frames, some are

just ordinary moments, some have obvious editing lessons

I want to pass on, some have shooting

principles that I covered in the first episodes

of the course.

So hopefully there'll be plenty of great hints

and tips for you to take away from

this one, whether you've shot one wedding or

a hundred.

So I have all the images on my

Drobo, we're going to import them exactly how

I would a wedding gallery.

The only difference today is that I won't

be using Imogen AI.

I want to show you how I edit

before introducing AI into the equation.

It's also worth noting following on from the

workflow setup episode that you don't need a

40 terabyte Drobo to hold your RAWs.

You might do if you're shooting 80 weddings

this year, but that main hard drive can

be whatever you need.

What I would say is that you plan

ahead and buy something a little bigger than

you need right now.

If you're doing a full season, something like

an eight terabyte drive would probably do.

And if you want a working backup of

that, a two terabyte or a four terabyte

to backup the Lightroom ready RAWs would be

just fine.

Okay, let's get onto the screen and take

a look, shall we?

Okay, so we are in Lightroom and we

are going to import from Drobo first.

So here you can see I've already got

a demo edit folder and we are going

to add them to the catalog.

And again, I've already been through this in

the workflow video, but I'll just recap a

couple of little steps.

So we're going to import these, we're going

to add them to the folder.

We are going to build minimal previews and

we're going to build smart previews.

This is going to be our online backup

for the very, very worst case scenario.

Okay, we're also going to add main grade.

So in my preset pack, we've got zero

one main grade and we're going to add

that on import.

Okay, let's start bringing those files in.

This might be the point at which you'd

go and make a cup of tea or

a coffee.

So I'm going to pause for a second

and we will speed this bit up and

I'll see you in a second.

Okay, so we're back.

That took a couple of minutes just to

import those hundred images.

Click on okay.

And now they're imported and you can see

over here we've got original and smart preview

chosen.

So we can go into finder and we

can eject the Drobo.

We no longer need that now until we

get to the export stage.

Okay, that's ejected the Drobo.

So we're going to give that a little

break now and we can just edit away

and you can see straight away that these

files now are just they are using the

smart preview.

The original is offline but this photo can

still be edited.

It can still be edited but it can

also still be exported.

I could if I needed to export all

of these at 2600 pixels on the long

edge.

Okay, just another thing to note before we

get into editing.

I use a tool called Pfixer keys.

So Pfixer is here and it is a

keyboard mapping tool.

So it allows me to control my edits

without having to use the mouse and the

sliders.

So a lot of these steps here have

been mapped to keys on my keyboard.

Now if you need to see the commands

that I'm going to the changes that I'm

going to make to those images, you'll be

able to look down here in the history

column.

You'll be able to see the change that

I'm going to make.

I'm going to try and talk through all

of the steps that I go through when

I'm making these edits anyway.

But if you need to sort of see

anything any specifics you'll be able to see

them down here in the history tab.

Okay, so first things first.

Let's just start working through and edit shall

we.

So straight away for this one I can

just say it just for me looks like

a black and white image.

So we're going to go black and white.

The first thing I'm going to do is

crop this girl out because she's an unnecessary

distraction to Scarlett.

Okay, I'll just bring it down so you

can see the commands again.

Okay, so we're just looking at the lines

just make sure that everything's straight.

I'm looking obviously at this vertical here.

I would like it that wallpaper didn't exist

but there's not much I can do about

that.

Okay, next one.

So I've shown you this frame recently.

Again, I'm just going to run through that

step of just quickly cropping in, leveling out

and again the first thing that I'm drawn

to is just the skin tone here and

on dad's face and hand and it just

looks a little bit on the yellow and

green side.

And again we're in a scene that's got

a lot of green in it so that's

obviously going to be reflected in the skin

tone.

So you can see here by me pressing

the M key we're just boosting that tint

slider.

If I want to make a big change

I can do command and M.

There you go, you see we've just increased

that a little bit.

It looks well balanced, not too contrasty.

Okay, we'll move on.

Okay, so the color in this offends me

quite a lot.

I don't like this dress, this sort of

pinkish reddish neon kind of color.

It's distracting from the focus of the image

which is the girl in the center of

the shot with the light on her face.

So we're going to crop in a little

bit.

We're going to make it, what we're trying

to do here is to just draw the

attention to her a bit more than than

I have in the shot.

In hindsight this shot would have been far

better taken on an 85mm rather than a

50.

It would have just been a bit better

just to be a bit tighter in on

this girl.

So we'll do that.

We're going to go straight to black and

white again and again this is still a

little bit blown out here so we're just

going to choose a gradient.

We're going to do a linear gradient.

I'm going to pull that across and just

bring the exposure down slightly and the highlights.

We'll close that.

Okay, next image.

So a classic bit of a sunset shot.

I'm just going to reduce, I don't like

the amount of sky in this shot so

I'm just going to bring that down a

little bit.

We'll just check the level of yeah that's

good.

The first thing that I note is just

the back of his waistcoat here, it's just

kicking up so I'm just going to take

that away.

Very tiny little adjustment but it's just a

small distraction that sort of got my attention.

Again we're going to boost the tint a

little bit and we're going to bring up

the warmth of the image a little bit

more just to really boost that sun and

you'll see as well often in sunsets I'll

bring the shadows or the blacks down just

to give it a bit more depth to

the image.

So again if we just reset that and

there's the straight out of camera shot and

there's the final edit.

Okay, next image.

Okay, we've got Jade and Emma and again

first thing I'm going to do is just

boost the tint.

Again there's a lot of green hue being

sort of cast on their skin so I'm

going to change that.

We're just going to level it out slightly

and just bring them into the centre of

the frame and then the obvious distraction for

me is this bench over here.

Often when I come to clone out details

such as this if I can do it

in Lightroom I will.

If it's a bit more detailed and complex

I will colour grade the image so I

know that once I've exported it I can

go back into Photoshop and just adjust that.

Just a quick adjustment if you want to

increase or decrease the size of the brush

you can just push your finger up on

the mouse or bring it down on the

mouse.

Just a very quick way of doing it

without having to go into the actual slider

and we're just going to choose this here.

Obviously that's not right Lightroom's made a mess

of that but we'll just come in and

adjust it.

Once you've got a couple of those in

it should be pretty straightforward because we'll just

keep this line running across.

Okay we'll close that.

There you go that's much better.

Just looks a little bit that line running

across the back just makes it look a

little bit wonky so I'm just going to

straighten that up slightly.

I don't always do this.

I don't have this built into my preset

but I will often adjust the profile.

I'll enable profile corrections so you can see

here if you just look on some images

not all of them I really noticed that

sort of natural vignette to the lens.

I actually don't use the 51.2 anymore

but it just really I really noticed it

there on that image you can just see

how dark it is around the corners and

if I notice that then I'll just turn

that on.

You can see it's just removed it it's

just balanced it out a little bit more.

Okay and again if we just show you

the original there you go and then back

to the final edit.

Okay a shot on the dance floor.

So the first thing that I notice here

is just this purple from the from the

disco lights and the distraction that that creates

so for me straight away it's a very

easy fix by just going black and white.

I'll give it a bit more contrast and

I'm just looking at there I wanted I

just want to see their skin a little

bit brighter than it is so I'll bring

that up boost more contrast bring down the

blacks again just to show you the pre

the reset version versus the completed version.

Okay a shot of them outside under the

festoon lights and again this is an image

that I referenced at the in the early

stages of the course you can just see

how much we've pushed the iso to 12

,800 we shot 1.4 50th of a

second so let's just start to push this

file a little bit now obviously when you're

shooting at 12,800 there isn't as much

play in the file as there might be

at lower isos it's going to get very

noisy very quickly so just be very wary

of that you know if I push it

beyond you can see now you know the

the highlights in the sky and the tree

are looking and even all over the shadows

you can see they're looking it's looking incredibly

noisy so we're going to bring that I'm

going to bring that back down we're going

to boost the highlights just to try and

bring their skin up a little bit without

it looking too too noisy again we'll just

come in a little bit closer we'll level

it out a tiny bit I can just

see these chairs in the background so we're

going to just very quickly just brush that

out so that's gone again there we have

it again just go back to resetting and

showing you the final version in this instance

it might be wise to just add a

little bit of noise reduction I've just got

a preset already built into the preset pack

just to bring down a little bit of

that noise that's coming from the 12,800

iso and again if we just zoom in

you can see that on and off yeah

just tidy it tidies that up a little

bit okay next one okay first thing again

just um just feel like I'm a little

bit far out from them both so I'm

just gonna crop in a little bit and

just level up now when I'm shooting in

this instance where there's already quite a bit

of contrast on the subject I'm actually going

to reduce that contrast that's a little bit

too high for me again we're going to

give it a boost of tint just to

bring that up and make it a little

bit warmer and again I'm just whenever I'm

doing that all I'm doing is looking at

their skin tone is it balanced is it

does it look right does it look too

green does it look too pink obviously that

looks too pink now so we'll go back

and after a while you start to get

a feel for where your camera and your

your preset numbers will sit so I know

that the tint generally for me sits in

and around the 20 plus 25 to maybe

plus 50 depending on depending on the scene

okay we're just going to balance that a

bit more just straighten it out a tiny

bit okay and there's just a couple of

things that are just getting my attention that

I don't like so there's these two little

lights here we're just going to take those

away very quick and easy fix same with

this one up here okay yeah that's better

and I'm also struggling with whether this house

should stay in the background this is a

very quick fix here this little lamp I'm

just going to take that out the way

again just trying to just just tidy the

frame up just a little bit so that

your eye and your attention is really focused

on on the couple and let's just see

how it looks taking this out quickly it

should be a pretty straightforward clone job there's

not much going on in the background it's

already out of focus so it should be

pretty straightforward it's not

the best let's just give this another little

brush over here this is

kind of on the edge of the amount

of cloning I'd do if it was much

more than this I'd be inclined to just

do it in photoshop but I think we've

made that one work and we're just going

to have a look at that now I'll

get rid of those lights quickly that's looking

better and that little bit of the building

there as well we're just going to remove

that and then I think we're about done

okay so that for me is much better

that was just a little bit of a

distraction in the background again if we just

go back to shot before out of camera

and the final version there we go move

on okay so I've got a little sequence

of seven or eight images here from Charlotte

and Simon's wedding and I've pulled these out

as an example just to show you the

kind of speed that I will work at

when I come to do an edit again

I've talked about this countless times about just

being efficient not I won't stand on an

image I won't edit an image for generally

I know obviously the ones I've already been

through I've spent a little bit of time

on just cloning and what have you but

on the whole I'll try and spend no

more than sort of 30 seconds on an

image I just make a quicker crop and

adjustment adjust the white balance and tint any

contrast adjustments made quickly and then let's move

on to the next one and often you'll

find and the reason I pulled these examples

out is because the couple are in the

same light they're in a very similar position

as I move through once I've got the

first one set and I'm happy with the

tones and the color so if we just

do that here and again you can see

there's quite a bit of green in this

scene so we'll just balance it out with

a bit more tint okay well so once

I've got that I can go to the

next image and I'm just going to do

paste previous and it's just going to paste

my settings from the previous one this is

a couple of things first and foremost it's

efficient and quick because I'm not doing I'm

not repeating myself secondly it provides real consistency

to the images it means that this entire

block of images are going to have the

same preset applied and the same adjustments applied

to it so again if I just paste

previous I'm just going to adjust the crop

on that and you can see this even

though we're in a slightly different place now

there was a little bit more green in

this color so in this in this image

so we're going to adjust that slightly the

next image here is a is a repeat

image so in this instance I'm going to

give them a black and white version and

I'm going to go back to this one

I'm going to press the comma I'm going

to copy all of the basic settings that

I've already taken from that one I'm going

to go over to the next one in

the sequence paste that make a quick crop

adjustment just bring the exposure up just a

little bit okay and then pasting from that

previous copy and again paste previous just bring

up the exposure this is quite a dark

tunnel so I'm just going to bring up

the the shadows and the blacks just so

it's not as contrasty contrasty I'm just going

to come in a little bit closer now

this one I like and I'm oh I

like it in that I like it in

that color but I'm also going to give

these guys a black and white version of

this one because it just looks it thought

that'd be great in black and white so

I'm going to create a virtual copy and

I'm going to go up to my presets

and I'm going to choose black and white

I'm just going to bring the blacks up

a little bit there we go okay now

we're on to another wedding this is Nicola

and Chris and again the very first thing

to know and again this will be a

repeat of a lot of weddings especially in

England where you have bright green foliage and

trees is that the skin looks very green

so like we've already touched on the very

first thing to happen will be that the

tint is going to get boosted and you

can see that if we just look at

this here we're just looking to take away

that green hue from the image so you

can see there if you just look purely

at the skin and forget everything else in

the image just look how green that looks

compared to where we make the adjustments okay

took me three or four years of being

a wedding photographer to realize that there's a

tint slider so but keep that to yourself

don't tell don't tell anybody okay so let's

just boost the exposure on that tint yep

okay and let's move on and again you

can see in here where I've made them

stand just they are surrounded by green and

their skin looks incredibly green so we're going

to paste previous it looks a little bit

on the contrasty side I'm going to bring

the white balance down to add a bit

more blue and I'm going to this is

the this is about as extreme as I'll

go I won't often go above 50 60

on the on the tint but given the

situation that are in or given the the

space that they're in and the volume of

of those leaves we're going to be giving

a bit more boost okay and I like

that as a I can see that as

a black and white so we'll create a

virtual copy give them a black and white

version and again same with this one we're

just going to make this one black and

white and we're just going to crop in

a little bit more okay there we have

it okay now we're into a sunset field

shot and again if you don't plan for

this you're really sort of going on luck

to be able to get sunset shots like

this so this is done by or two

things first off scouting the location in the

morning but also scouting it with the PhotoPills

app which I'll link to in the description

and just going to just going to to

find a location and seeing where the sun

is going to set at what time and

just trying to shoot into some obviously here

you can see that we're shooting into a

valley so the sun is able to kind

of cast itself over some colors which is

the key so we'll close that we'll just

send them off a little bit again we'll

give a little bit of a tint boost

we'll bring the shadows down just so that

the just so that the sunset has a

little bit more depth to it okay and

if I reset straight out of camera final

edit again we're just going to paste previous

on this one because the colors are going

to be very similar it's amazing how those

completely out of focus messed up shots can

sometimes be absolutely beautiful but I love that

frame again we're going to paste previous nothing's

changed but straight away it's cropped in too

tight so we're going to bring that back

so sometimes when you shoot into the sun

this is the time when I'll I'll counter

and I will tend to boost the contrast

just a little bit if the sun is

on the couple then I go the reverse

way and I'll bring the contrast down again

we're going to paste previous nothing else has

changed here we're going to create a virtual

copy and we're going to give them that

in black and white and I'm just going

to add a little bit of noise reduction

on there just to soften out her skin

a little bit bring the blacks and the

shadows down okay and then this is something

I don't do enough of actually and that

is once the sun is set is turning

yourself around so that the sun is behind

you as the photographer and it's falling on

to the couple yeah the sun is set

at this point but just look how warm

and glowing the skin is in this in

this frame we can just boost this it

looks a little bit on the orange side

so we'll we'll cool it down a little

bit again a little bit more in the

way of tint again just gives you a

very different look and feel to the scene

when you shoot with the last bit of

the light falling onto you onto your couple's

skin okay and again we're just going to

paste previous there we have it okay now

we're back at the house with Nicola and

Chris and this is just the last little

bit of the light you can see we're

underexposed a little bit here that is actually

probably more a user error than anything else

but we can we can rescue that no

problem let's just boost the exposure again looks

a little bit on the green side we'll

warm it up all of a sudden we're

looking a little bit better here my eye

is really drawn to Nicola's dress and just

how creased that is in the middle so

what we're going to do is we're going

to take the brush tool i'm just going

to increase that a little bit and we're

going to push the exposure up and the

highlights i'm just going to brush over that

and i'll try and remove all of it

if i can if i can't then that'll

be something that just gets taken into photoshop

and we'll just clone that out a little

bit but you can get rid of a

quite a bit of it just by boosting

the exposure when it's when it's such bright

white so again that might be something that

would just get tidied up a little bit

in post in photoshop okay and now we

are in london and this is joy and

ed's wedding and i just want to show

you a few frames here that just to

reinforce the framing and the composition of what

are just really ordinary moments and i actually

quite amazingly spoke to a couple last night

who who wanted to book me for a

wedding next year and they said something really

struck well just just reinforce this whole idea

is that they'd looked at lots of other

photographers and all of their galleries just seemed

to be focused on the bride and groom

and that isn't what they wanted they want

to see photos of their guests they want

to see people that are at their wedding

that they know and love their friends and

family they want nice photos of them and

that's where my work stood out differently to

everybody else that they were looking at so

this is just on the 85 1.8

this is one of the bride's best friends

and we're just going to balance that out

and you can see that we've got another

friend in the foreground just to give a

bit of context and a bit of depth

to the shot again just a really ordinary

moment just the bride's gran or post previous

and you know we've got dad in the

foreground having a beer you know grand's off

center she's filling the frame and again here

we are just another couple just having an

embrace you know the the bride's friends and

it's just off center they're filling the frame

i'm not stood too far away from them

you know this is important for the bride

and groom but it's also really powerful for

the couple you know they have they you

know they leave a wedding and have images

like this okay and then we've got joy

and ed walking across the road i'm always

shooting so this is after we've taken a

few photos of them and we're just walking

back to the pub but as soon as

i see them walking across the road i

can just see the opportunity and i can

see the shot the fact that joy's decides

to wave to people it's just a fluke

really but it's brilliant it makes the shot

so we're just going to level that out

again just straightening it up i'm just looking

on the horizon lines to make sure that

everything's straight again needs it feels like it

needs a bit more on the tint side

just to bring out the pink in that

dress okay there we go so this is

just sort of before speeches and we've just

come outside just to get a couple of

little photos and and actually i knew at

this point that i needed to bring these

guys back out again in about half an

hour's time because i i knew that these

lights would be coming on a little bit

more um and there's still going to be

enough ambient light to to get some shots

but let's just show you the difference between

this and that shot in a half an

hour's time so see we've just made a

few tweaks there just basic tints and exposure

if i just reset that you can see

i've just cropped it so that that person

in the background is out of shot and

then we're into the speeches and again just

in just an example you know this is

shot on a 35 mil so i'm i'm

really close to these guys but again just

getting involved recognizing moments getting in getting the

shot quickly and moving on um okay that's

fine and then here we are again look

now you can see we're about half an

hour 45 minutes further down we've had speech

in between and can you see how much

of a difference it's made having those lights

on in the background so let's just crop

this guy out of the background there let's

just sort the exposure and the tint out

first before do anything else let's get it

to a nice nice place okay and then

and then we're just looking at tweet like

just very small fine tweaks and adjustments there's

not a huge amount to do but there's

just a couple of things that are just

getting my attention this in the top corner

we're just going to take out very easy

fix it's that one and there's another

little security camera over here i'll just very

quickly clone that out let's just do that

again but better okay and

we're just going to have a quick look

at the profile corrections no see it's not

worked on that instance so we'll leave it

as it is and that's why it's not

part of my base preset because i don't

always trust it and there we have it

so just again just reset straight out of

camera there's the final edit just another couple

of things this is how sometimes i have

to stop myself but just that little mark

on the pavement let's just clone that out

very quickly again very very simple easy fix

okay and moving on okay so we're into

party time and let's just level it out

i wouldn't normally shoot at 15 mil on

the dance floor but obviously given that joy

spinning address i obviously made a decision to

to zoom out on that one and we're

just going to call it down again tint

has gone up and let's just have a

look at profile corrections right so this one

isn't much this one is much better if

i turn that off again you just see

it's got that vignette to the shot which

is a bit too obvious for me so

i'm going to remove that and there we

have it okay always getting involved on the

dance floor always looking for people that are

getting involved with a sing-song and again

if you just look at this image straight

away it's very yellow that's again just down

to the lights that are in the that

are in the venue and this is shot

with just a bounce flash going over my

shoulder but again we'll just bring the temperature

down and again my focus really is on

these two guys here and just their skin

tone just getting that to the place that

i want it to be at okay there

we go okay we're into tuscany and this

is charlotte and neil i'm just going to

bring the crop in first just so that

i'm a little bit closer to them both

um just one thing to note here that

this this gravel here they're not just here

by chance they're here because i've i've recognized

this gravel as being a a real reflector

of light um if they're on green grass

it would reflect green light into their faces

but it's not this is reflecting clean white

light into their skin so we're just going

to boost the tint on that bring the

exposure up a little bit i'm just going

to reframe it slightly again just looking at

small details i'm not going to get bogged

down in too much of this but that's

a little bit of a distraction so let's

move that out of the way and there's

just a couple of obvious sort of things

on the floor that could just be moved

out very very quickly and this one behind

a dress as well you know took no

time at all and actually this one behind

a leg as well needs to go there

we go again just show you the before

and the after okay we're going to go

across to this one we're going to go

back sorry back to this first image we're

going to just copy those come at those

adjustments and apply it to this one so

we've got a very similar sort of tone

and white balance um there's not much else

to change on this one but i'd hope

that if you're starting to see the images

the way i do that you will now

look at this rain manhole cover whatever it

might be in the background and just a

very quick and easy clone out job done

just tidy that up just a very small

distraction again just to show you the previous

there we go okay again we can just

paste those previous settings skin looks a little

bit on the dark side so i'm just

going to boost that there we go okay

and then just a little sequence of those

of these guys arriving to dinner and there's

an element here this this is more of

a a shooting tip really and i don't

tend to interfere with the couple's day or

tell them what to do but there will

be little moments during the day where i

will just give them a little prompt i'll

just encourage them to do something and i'll

just see how it plays out and charlotte

and neil were waiting to make their entrance

in this room here at the top and

i told them that i was going to

stand at the back i was going to

see them come down the stairs and if

they could just pause on that top step

and just sort of just recognize their friends

and family who i knew were going to

be up on their feet i didn't know

they were going to be waving their napkins

in the air but that's that's great and

i just wanted them to pause there just

for just for two seconds and making them

just giving them the idea to stop and

take that pause has meant they've put their

hands in the air they're doing a fist

bump whatever it might be rather than just

marching straight down the stairs it just gave

me a chance just to get this frame

it's a complete chance that this girl had

dropped her chair which kind of makes the

shot even more sort of intriguing but sometimes

things happen and you kind of create your

own look don't you so we'll just make

a few adjustments here we'll get the tint

and the white balance right again not much

has changed and i like the frame so

i'm going to give them that in black

and white we're just going to level it

out again very quickly now this is a

just another shooting example of of getting a

shot and knowing how to change the scene

and how to to to make the most

of this very short space of time and

this is on a 35 mil and at

this point i know they're about to come

down the stairs so i've switched to the

85 there we go let's paste the previous

settings we've got and you can see now

they've only walked a few steps we've got

a very different shot i've gone portrait mode

as well i'll take those lights out let's

just keep it nice and clean again we're

just looking to level it out white balance

skin tone looks good exposure looks good there's

no real distractions there so that's fine and

let's move on and then just by chance

that happens so let's paste those previous settings

everything looks good i think we just need

to straighten it up ever so slightly and

there we have it you know a very

quick entrance but i've made the most of

that by getting you know three very different

shots in that very short window then we've

got the tail end of getting the last

bit of the light with the with charlotte

and neil and it's just started to rain

at this point and you know i know

a lot of people don't want it to

rain but sometimes when things happen that you

know where the day doesn't go to plan

that can often make that can often make

an experience and experiences make moments and shots

and images so let's just balance this one

out i just love the the depth of

this image and how moody it kind of

feels they're walking back up to the house

and then it really starts to rain and

again your couple can go one of two

ways here they can they can either run

inside and you know berate it and moan

about it or they can do what charlotte

and neil did which is just embrace it

and make the most of it so right

we're fighting a bit with this one so

if a pace previous doesn't tend to work

i'll just restart just boost the exposure we'll

bring the highlights up and the shadows we'll

get as close as we can just going

to balance it out with the crop a

little bit more and again tint needs to

come up there we go now on to

luke and jess and again first thing to

note is just the level of green that's

in their skin so we're going to bring

the tint up and just looks a little

bit contrasty on their skin so i'm just

going to bring the contrast down ever so

slightly just a few points and i'm just

going to see how it looks with profile

corrections right that looks better to me it

just looks a bit too vignettey to me

so we'll we'll just drop that down again

very similar shot so i like it we'll

give it them in black and white balance

that out and again we'll take off or

turn on profile corrections okay let's go back

to this one let's copy those settings okay

and again you can see how we're just

hunting the background trying not to get too

much of the sky in the shot do

that quite a lot don't not a fan

of seeing just open skylines okay and

then we can just paste the previous because

it's exactly the same we've just gone to

portrait mode i like this frame as well

i can see it in black and white

yeah i like it in black and white

that's good and then we're walking back towards

the venue and just see a little bit

of light just kind of coming over this

uh this tree line here so just make

them stand there and get a little bit

there we have it okay and now they're

walking towards the lights the lights on their

skin we're just going to paste the previous

we're going to boost the exposure a little

bit a bit more in the way of

tint and this sign on that fence that's

an obvious distraction to me that's a very

quick and easy fix hopefully yeah there we

go probably just do that a little bit

better actually let's just start that one again

so we'll just do it a smaller clone

that's better honestly light room sometimes it does

make me wonder okay there we go i'm

just going to bring the exposure down just

a little bit on that again sorry the

contrast okay next image we're on to holly

and carl again just look at the framing

you know who's my attention and focus on

it's holly carl brings the context to the

shot i'm going to boost the tint boost

the exposure and make it a little bit

cooler it looks a little bit contrast the

contrast is quite high on holly's face so

let's drop that down a little bit okay

there we go let's just have a look

at the straight out of camera there we

go to the changes that have been made

there we go i'm moving on okay you

can see here we're in a bit of

sunlight first thing we're going to do is

just crop in and straighten it up a

little bit this sign here is bugging me

so let's just crop that out ever so

slightly there's something on the door here that's

a very easy fix i'm going to keep

that there because that's quite a quite a

feature of the building again tint needs to

be boosted i'm just going to bring the

exposure down just a little bit again just

all the time looking at the subject and

their skin tone okay they've been welcomed into

the room um we're just going to crop

in a little bit closer i would like

it if i hadn't cut the end of

a the very bottom of a dress off

there but sometimes just just happens so i

can see that i've got two very similar

frames here so the first one i'm going

to keep this color let's just balance it

out first tint and white balance first and

then i'm going i'm hoping you've already all

seen this that fire exit sign is a

distraction and that can be easily cloned out

so let's just tidy that up easy peasy

lemon squeezy okay i'll just show you that

one original to edit again just looks a

little bit contrast i'm just going to bring

that down a tiny bit and this one

because i've done it it's a very similar

frame i just like it in black and

white let's just straighten them both up and

again let's just pull that sign out get

rid of it and a very easy fix

no excuses for leaving those in when they're

so easy to clone out this is quite

a party this is during dinner time as

well my kind of wedding again just level

it out a little bit let's just remove

that tiny bit of alarm at the top

again just keep looking keep looking at skin

tones it's all i'm focused on getting that

right first and again we're in similar position

similar lights let's just copy those settings from

there and let's paste previous so again we

get speed and we get consistency if i

was to go back through this image now

and just try and balance it out to

match the previous one over the course of

20 or 30 images that's going to differ

hugely okay now we're at sophie and pedram

again just another real example of knowing when

to step up and just work really hard

during a wedding like you know this is

after the ceremony people want to come up

to sophie and they want to hug her

and chat to her congratulate her you know

this is a really vital time of the

day and you should all be making the

very very most of it so you can

see here we've got you know a friend

she's off center she fills the frame we've

got sophie in the foreground providing the context

again very basic principle that i just keep

going on and on and on about but

i go on about it because it's absolutely

vital to my work and then next frame

again people are just coming in we can

paste previous we're on an 85 mil this

time but again off center filling the frame

again someone else has come in exactly the

same shot you know this is absolute bread

and butter there's such easy easy moments to

capture as well but so powerful you know

incredibly powerful when you know you look at

that and it amazes me that photographers spend

so much of their time just focused purely

on the bride and groom i hope if

you can take anything away from well this

editing session that that will be one of

the big big takeaway points that you'll switch

your focus unless you already do focus on

guests and friends and family that it might

just make you question who the who the

focus needs to be on okay and then

portraits of sophie and pedram again i could

have spent all day shooting these guys in

here absolutely incredible venue at kew gardens but

again let's just go into the edit you

know we're in a group in a room

we're in a room that's full of green

foliage and colors so let's boost the tint

let's increase that um this little black sort

of barrier bugs me you might think i'm

a bit strange but i'm going to clone

it out because i know that i look

at it and i go oh that's quite

a that's quite an easy fix and if

it's in a really easy fix then it's

just it's easy to do so let's just

do that quickly there we go absolutely no

messing about there

we are it just doesn't grab my attention

now because it's not there i've taken it

away okay and we're in the same space

okay so let's go back to the previous

one we're going to copy those basic settings

i'm going to go back into this one

i'm going to paste previous yeah i like

that let's go with a black and white

version as well by creating a virtual copy

choosing the black and white yeah love that

one and again we're in the same space

but i've just switched lens here we've gone

from this one here which is on the

35 mil 1.8 we are now doing

the same shot but we're we're on 85

mil shot at 1.8 we're going to

paste the previous you know in the time

it took to just swap camera look at

the different types of shots we've got there

just from those two just from those two

different bodies this is louise this is the

wedding planner this is a two second lesson

just get some shots of people working whilst

they're at the at the wedding you know

louise has used this on her instagram she'll

put on her stories you know again it's

just free basic marketing i'm at a wedding

i'm a big i'm at a big london

wedding you know a huge audience with supplies

that i want to network with for the

sake of all of two seconds to just

take that photo and give louise a couple

of images of herself working for a mark

for her own marketing so long as she

tags me happy days okay and let's move

on okay so this is very orange this

is where i tend to go and use

maybe slightly different preset template we'll use we

use indoors it's a little bit softer um

hold on what happened there let me just

jump back yeah so we're on indoors which

is going to boost the exposure a little

bit you know so many people are fearful

of shooting in low light but this is

this is a candle lit candle lit venue

there's no there's no light being cast on

them other than the light from the tables

and the candles but we're shooting at 5000

iso we're shooting pretty wide open at 1

.4 and we're on a hundredth of a

second okay that looks good to me let's

just reset it just see where it was

straight out camera yep love it okay i'm

going to paste the previous because we're in

almost the same conditions which can boost that

a little bit and again just using people

to provide context to a shot or to

depth you know this is just these lines

here these are just created by shooting at

1.4 and 85 and this is just

like the sequence of of a woman's top

and i'm just shooting over her shoulder to

get pedram's reaction to the speeches and then

after pedram's done his speech i'm ready i'm

in position because i know from experience that

a moment like this is likely to happen

and there's always a moment when the speeches

have done and people are just chatting amongst

themselves at the tables that are bride and

groom or a couple bride and bride groom

and groom will just see each other and

say you know well done that was great

and just put yourself in a position to

be ready for it okay now we are

at babington house and this is amelia and

her dad let's just balance this out first

okay i'm going to boost the exposure and

again just bring the tint up make it

a bit warmer and i'm sorry poppy but

poppy is going to get taken out here

because she is a distraction to the shot

very easy fix i might spend a bit

longer on this if i was doing it

properly um there you have it very very

quickly three clones and she's she's gone she

was a great help on the day but

she doesn't need to be in that photo

i hope poppy doesn't sign up to this

course but i love poppy she's great okay

let's just reset that show you the there

you are that's the original that's the final

again no excuse for leaving her in really

it's just a very easy fix again just

an example of landscape landscape portrait portrait landscape

landscape and i think we've covered it on

the edit yet but let's just have a

quick look i'm just gonna go back to

this one and take the basic settings because

we're we're in the same sort of space

yep that works so you can see we're

in landscape then we switch to portrait mode

i'm just going to crop that ever starting

to balance it out yeah and then we

are we're now on a 35 mil and

we are landscape i'm just going to adjust

the exposure of that one and bring it

in a little bit more and then we

go to portrait just going to straighten them

out and then we go to back to

landscape for the final part of the confetti

shot so you can see in that what

must it be about 50 yards that they've

walked we've got landscape 85 portrait 85 landscape

35 portrait 35 landscape cropped in 35 so

easy just to get a variety of shots

in a short space of time when a

couple are walking just by two lenses and

just rotating the camera and again just another

very good example of just working quickly in

a scene this is just outside the the

building they're about to be announced in and

i've just said to them walk 10 yards

away from me let's just get a couple

of quick shots and this is this is

taking place in under probably under a minute

so they've walked away let's just boost the

tint on that and the white balance okay

and then they're walking back and we've switched

lens we're now on a 35 mil let's

copy that let's take off the profile correction

or apply it yeah that's better again paste

that and you can see you know this

is in in under a minute we've got

four or five great frames of them just

walking away from me 10 yards and back

to me 10 yards don't need to over

complicate things let's just sort that out and

then let's just tidy up this little patch

of grass over here on the side okay

and then they can have that one in

black and white as well just like the

light on Edward's face yeah that's good bit

more contrast lovely jubbly and then they're walking

into the venue and i'd already seen this

i just thought that she's going to come

in through that door let's just be ready

let's get my settings exposed get my get

my exposure set for outside and just wait

for Amelia to walk in through that space

and there we have it just yeah just

that one there's probably about 15 frames of

this sequence but this is the one where

her foot is kind of lifted up into

that position just looks looks really good okay

so let's just boost that a little bit

okay so i made a few quick changes

there just increase the tint the temperature the

exposure and again just go back to resetting

it there you go and that's our final

edit okay and then we're outside this is

the dusk this is the last bit of

the light so you can see we're pushing

the camera a bit harder now we're at

8000 iso 1.6 i'm just going to

bring that in a little bit closer a

bit more in the way of tint and

if i just look at this it looks

a little bit on the noisy side so

we're just going to add a very slight

bit of noise reduction that's better now there's

a few sort of bits of scrap on

the floor so we're just going to tidy

a few of the the big obvious ones

up again just a really easy fix there

we have it okay and now we're on

to a little bit of dance floor action

again just focused purely on the skin to

start off with and skin tone let's just

boost that bring the tint up a little

bit it looks a little bit on the

contrast side to me a high contrast so

we're going to reduce that slightly and we

can also reduce that by just bringing up

the shadows and the blacks if we need

to again just making those quick changes there

we go again you all know by now

that i'm not a fan of the color

purple so straight away this will go to

black and white just going to level it

out slightly okay next one okay we've got

bliss and james the first thing here is

to just level this out and i'm obviously

just looking at those chairs that first row

of chairs there just to sort of use

them as a guide point and we're going

to boost the tint and i'm going to

bring the exposure up and we're just going

to remove this patch of grass that's just

offending me off to the side there we

go okay moving on again let's just get

the exposure and the tint and the white

balance right first before we look at the

next steps there we go so that's pretty

close we can bring the contrast down a

tiny bit and the big problem here is

just all of these little oil patches on

the tarmac so we're just going to very

quickly get a couple of the the big

ones and just get them out the way

and that leaf that can go easy fix

and you know what sometimes it's just this

it's this small attention to detail that just

helps just tidy up those images and just

take them to a to a new level

you know no one might no one might

ever notice but you will again be your

own biggest critic i'm always looking for these

i'm always looking eyes they're a way that

i can just make this frame just a

little bit better how can i just tidy

it up just a little bit more there

we go it's a couple here that are

just grabbing my attention there we go job

done yeah there's a few other little ones

i could go in and tidy up i'm

not going to for now but that's the

frame okay and then let's just increase i

love the moodiness of this shot again yeah

just a visual trigger that i'm looking for

the light is in this top corner it's

about to start dipping over this hedgerow so

i'm shooting into the hedgerow the hedgerow gives

me a canvas or a backdrop to shoot

against and i'm just making them walk across

the frame simple as that and we're just

going to remove a couple of these things

here that are just slight distractions again easy

peasy okay very similar space and light so

let's go and copy that and you can

see there just how how much warmer that

looks now let's get them in the middle

as much as we can and level it

out a little bit okay so i might

just put a bit more contrast through this

one because we're shooting into the light and

again i'm just going to go in and

just tidy up a couple of these scrappy

bits on the floor and i'm

far more likely to do this as well

to this level of tweaking if if i

know that it's going to be an image

that i'm going to use in my in

my in my portfolio for marketing let's not

say i don't look for it if i

know i'm not going to if i'm not

going to use it but you know it's

in your interest to to put out your

best work and to make it look as

kind of refined as possible there we

go i'm just going to try and just

tidy up a bit of this dress here

very very quickly there we go just got

the leaves off her veil there look brilliant

okay and they're just walking back now towards

me just crop that a little bit again

there's a few things on the floor that

i would clone out but you've just seen

me do that on the last couple of

images so i don't need to do that

again okay now we're in speeches um and

again you can see that you know we're

pushing this is candle lit there's not a

huge amount of ambience at all but we're

at 80 8000 iso 1.4 1 60th

of a second and we're just going to

push the highlights a little bit more again

tint's going to come up and you can

just see we've just got a little bit

of a tear so all i'm going to

try and do is just i'm going to

zoom in a bit more all i'm going

to do is just brush that and i'm

going to bring up the exposure and the

highlight only just a couple of points not

much just a tiny bit but can you

see how it's just brought up the light

that's on that tear so if we just

reset that now there's the out of camera

and there's the completed version i like it

let's have a look at it in black

and white yeah we'll give them as a

give it them as a black and white

as well then we're into imaging straight into

black and white for this one for me

okay and then dad's waiting for at the

bottom of the stairs he's totally gone and

again the the example here the lesson is

just to stay present and just keep shooting

through the moment and just wait for the

next thing to happen don't just get that

shot and then run off and going up

for something else sometimes you know it pays

to just stick around a little bit so

we'll get that to a stage where it's

ready it's tricky light in here i'm having

to fight that a little bit and often

a really good point actually i didn't i

didn't mention this earlier is too often if

i'm looking at the colors and the tones

in an image on the big screen sometimes

i just glance over to my left and

i'll look at the little thumbnail in the

top left hand corner and often that will

just give me a little prompt as to

whether it's too pink it's too green it's

too yellow too blue just sometimes stepping back

from an image and seeing it a bit

smaller just kind of gives you a slight

different perspective if i feel like i'm struggling

with an image or an edit and i'm

struggling to balance it i'll just look in

the top left hand corner of the navigator

and just take a look at that image

and i'll just sort of go oh actually

no do you know what that's that's about

right or no it needs a bit more

in the way of tint and i'll make

my adjustments from from looking at that image

okay and then we've got two of the

frames are in the same space so we'll

just paste previous so you can see there

that i've just pasted the settings from the

last image and again same here we've we've

not moved anywhere i'm just going to paste

the previous okay i'm going to see how

this looks again paste previous because we're in

very similar light and space i'm just going

to bring this in a bit closer and

i think the lesson here is is also

just about how you can make the most

out of a scene without really having to

move around too much so i am just

crouched up just to the side of this

table um the groom is just off to

my right hand side giving speeches um an

image of the bride is just is my

sort of main focus but over to my

left is one of the grooms uh aaron's

friends so this is without even changing lens

i'm just still on the 85mm still the

same settings you can see that i've just

got you know a shot of his reaction

you know not moving i literally just spun

to my left that's all i've done and

then we're up because imogen and aaron and

having a kiss and she's again saying well

done for the speech that was great really

funny and then aaron says a final few

more words and it's just a tight close

-up shot of his hand with his wedding

band on and his speech in his hand

and then back down again and then a

little bit of emotion from imogen again i've

not moved around all i've done is stand

up sit down spin to my left that's

it then we get a final little embrace

and then aaron reaches over to his friend

and they just shake hands and i haven't

changed lens i've kept the same camera the

same body in my hand i've just moved

around i've looked for different things and then

as i walk up and get kind of

to the back of the room and i'm

about to leave i'm just always paying attention

always looking at what's happening and there we

have it and that that is

an edit right there we have it 100

images edited i hope you've taken some useful

ideas away from that one let us know

in the facebook group if there's anything else

you'd like more focus on and we'll be

sure to address it i haven't run through

the export process here as we've already covered

that in the workflow demo but the same

steps would apply we export high res sharpen

in exposure x6 and then export a variety

of sizes however you decide to go about

your editing i hope the lessons in consistency

and efficiency will really help you with your

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