Lightroom Master

Adobe Lightroom (we’re talking about the more fully featured ‘Classic’ version) is the image management and editing tool of choice for most professional photographers, and for good reason.

As well as providing a huge array of professional editing capabilities, Lightroom organises, stores and catalogues all your images, so no more juggling different versions. The platform is bursting with functionality that will allow you to create stunning photos while giving you great efficiently to your workflow. 

But while easy to use, Lightroom is also a complex platform and to allow you to use all its power to take your work to the new level you need a guide; it’s not just the functionality, but how to use it creatively and correctly that makes the difference.

Get your images under control and learn professional editing to take your photography to a new level.

This workshop can be delivered over a single session, or split up into convenient smaller sessions and it runs either in person or over Zoom.

Most photography education courses will aim to give you all the information in a tidal-wave of content with the hope some of it sticks. Arguably this is little better than YouTube and if that worked then everyone would be a professional photographer. My approach is different. With targeted, one-to-one mentoring of attendees we build up the knowledge and skills at a pace drive by you, which will allow you to reach a much higher level of expertise. We believe not only is this the best way of learning, but the best use of your investment – you want to spend it once, and then leave with all the skills you need, built-in.

Each new area is backed up with actual practical sessions so you leave with an intuitive understanding which will allow you to share incredible images with family, friends or clients.

Unique to Nick Church Photography Education courses is the mentoring experience day. This involves accompanying Nick Church to a shoot, or to spend time experiencing the editing workflow.

Lightroom

• Welcome to the power of Adobe Lightroom

• Features overview, Classic vs Lightroom and using both together

• Importing, image management and meta-data

• Basic Editing functionality and technique: Colours, contrast and exposure, tone-curve and colours)

• Techniques to create image effects

• Maximising image quality with noise control, sharpening, healing/cloning

• Mastering presets for speed of work and consistency

• Advanced creative editing technique using radial filter, linear filter and brushes for professional end results

• Bringing it together for dramatic landscapes, stunningly flattering portraits, or dynamic documentary story-telling photography

• Exporting, sharing and delivering images for multiple purposes

• Presenting your work: create slideshows, videos, photo-books

• Lightroom and Photoshop editing workflows

• Practical mentoring throughout of you editing some of your images to stunning quality

• Setting up your system, with secure, scalable storage and my bespoke workflows to keep your library organised and safe

Aimed at anyone that wants to take advantage of the industry-leading editing and management tool. Beginner photographers will quickly save themselves months or years of trial and error to create stunning final images using Lightroom. Also, professional photographers that want to get all the benefits of the more efficient, intuitive and consistent editing that Lightroom allows and to learn some time-saving workflows that will change the way and the speed that you can work.

Laptop/Desktop with Adobe Lightroom Classic (or CC) and Photoshop . If you need assistance in which plan to purchase from Adobe, please get in touch.

We also need some images, shot in RAW format for us to work on.