Efficient Lighting & Post-Production

Efficient photography post-production starts before you ever sit down at your computer. In this photography course, learn how Jared Platt creates the highest quality images with the greatest speed! From the moment you pick up your camera to final delivery of your images, every decision you make can cost you time. Using the correct gear, shooting with postproduction in mind... Jared's efficiency techniques can save you time at every step along the way without sacrificing image quality.

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Lightroom 4

• Introduction: Understanding Light
• Image Quality: Exposure and Color Balance
• Equipment Review
• Shoot: Exposure, Lighting, Lightroom
• Shoot: Client Interaction, Matching Ambient Light
• Client Image Review and Q&A
• Calibration, JPEG v. RAW
• Calibration Q&A and Recap
• Gear Discussion
• Shoot: Dealing with the Sun
• Lighting Discussion and Q&A
• Post Production and Q&A
• Image Review
• Lightroom Efficiency: Library Module, Keywording
• Lightroom Efficiency: Develop Module, Presets
• Moving to Photoshop: Retouching
• Internet Audience Image Critique and Retouch
• Heroic Lightroom
• Lightroom DNG Contest and Q&A