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Editing & Lightroom

Editing & Lightroom photography

The discipline

Editing is where photographs are finished or ruined, and this workshop teaches it with darkroom manners: global before local, tone before colour, restraint before style. The full Lightroom workflow — ingestion, culling, correction, colour, output — is built into a system you can run in an hour a week, plus a printing day, because the print is the only honest proof.

Bring five hundred of your own unedited files; you'll leave with a system and a finished set.

Departures

Field notes

Cull twice: once fast for failure, once slow for feeling.

The histogram is the negative. Read it before you touch anything.

If a slider moved more than twenty points, the photograph is asking a question sliders can't answer.

Questions, answered

Lightroom Classic or cloud?

Either — the room runs both, and the teaching maps across. Catalogue strategy differs and both versions are covered.

What about other software?

The principles transfer to Capture One and the rest; the demonstrations are Lightroom. A comparison hour covers the landscape honestly.

Is printing really included?

Yes — soft-proofing, paper choice, and a finished A3 print of your best file from the week.

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