Earlier this month, I attended an AWESOME workshop by Jared Platt. The subject was Adobe Lightroom and workflow. Lightroom is the program I use to do all of my post processing work. I LOVE it, but there’re a lot of ins and a lot of outs, (a lot of whathaveyous, as The Dude would say). I’ve been using it for about a year, but after this workshop, it’s like a brand new toy. I learned a lot about how to use it more efficiently. Post processing can be a killer for photographers. Firstly, if you spend too much time at it, your pay is reduced dramatically. Secondly, a good photographer is a good photographer because they see the beauty in the moment, they press the shutter, and capture that instant. They ‘re not necessarily good at staring at that instant a week later, and tweek tweek tweeking it for hours on end. That takes what you love about photography and kills it dead.
Not only did I learn to use Lightroom more efficiently, he also included a set of really useful actions as part of the workshop. (If you are familiar with Photoshop, you know what an action is, basically it is a one click way of applying a bunch of different steps to an image. ) Those were worth the cost of the workshop right there!
For my photographer peeps, I highly recommend this workshop. It was super packed with information. We even learned stuff through lunch! There was no time wasting at all. If you’re going to PartnerCon (I am! SO STOKED) he’s doing a workshop on November 2nd in New Orleans, so you can add that to your trip if you want.
I LOVE going to stuff like this. Maybe someday I’ll feel like I know it all and I won’t need workshops anymore, but for now, I’ll go to as many as I can. It’s so exciting to learn more about this subject I’m so passionate about, and just to be with other photographers and soak up their energy.
