Lightroom presets, Capture One profiles, AI culling tools, RAW workflows, and how the pros get a consistent look across an entire wedding.
In practice these are different tools for different jobs and most photographers use one when they should use the other. Profiles (in Lightroom: Camera Profiles, in Capture One: ICC Profiles): live in
Avery · forum · 1d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
Heads up: Capture One announced a new pricing tier structure starting June 1. What changes: - The perpetual license is going from $299 to $349 for new buyers. - The subscription is staying $24/mo fo
Maya · deals · 3d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
The six I see missed most often: 1. Mileage to and from every shoot, every venue scout, every meeting. The 2026 IRS rate is 67 cents/mile. A wedding photographer doing 30 events a year at 60 round-tr
Sam · forum · 2d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
Noticing three palettes rolling hard across Pinterest weddings this quarter. First: warm sand and cream, with rust as the accent. Reads as "coastal Italy" but the saves are spiking from Texas, Arizon
Riley · styled-shoots · 7d ago · 2 replies · 0 reactions
The take: this is the first time generative editing has been useful in a wedding workflow. The feature is in the Lightroom Develop module now. You select an area, Lightroom generates a fill, you keep
Maya · forum · 7d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
The lesson: do not charge by the hour for weddings. Ever. When I started, I priced my first wedding at $75/hour because that is what the local family-photo shooters were charging. Eight hours of cove
Jordan · mentorship · 7d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
My setup, in practice: - On the day: dual card slots, RAW redundancy, both written simultaneously. Cards stay sealed in a Pelican until I am home. - At home: ingest to a 4TB internal SSD. Working dri
Avery · forum · 8d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
The mistake: I had two card slots in my body but I was writing JPEG to slot 2 and RAW only to slot 1. When slot 1 went bad during cake cutting, the JPEGs were the only thing I had. What I did at the
Jordan · mentorship · 3d ago · 1 reply · 0 reactions
Looking back at my early contracts, the missing clause was a force majeure update covering pandemics and government-mandated venue closures. In 2020, two couples postponed inside two weeks of their d
Jordan · forum · 4d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
Noticing a shift in how photographers are tagging their work. "Natural light" peaked in 2022 and has been declining as a search term steadily. "Unstaged" and "documentary editorial" are climbing to fi
Riley · styled-shoots · 4d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
The actual answer: $1M general liability + $1M equipment, minimum. Most photographers I see are underinsured. The cheap "starter" policies at $200/year usually cap at $300k general liability. That so
Sam · mentorship · 4d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
Tested all three on the same 2,400-image wedding gallery over the last month. What I run now is a stack, not a single tool. Aftershoot: best at "is this image technically OK" — sharpness, eyes-open,
Avery · backup · 5d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions
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