I finished photographing a large wedding this Saturdayfor a great couple and decided that I wanted to share my process of editing.

A 12 hour day of shooting yielded 920 images. (Pam, yes… I’ve calmed down a bit) The first order of business was to import them into a seperate Adobe Lightroom catalog. I also import them into my main catalog with minimal previews after I’ve completed the final edits.

So, images imported on Sunday afternoon. Yes, I slept in and had a wonderful breakfast with my girl. I had a brief look-through to pick out a few favorites. I chose 5 from memory before even seeing them. They were ones that stood out the moment I took the shot. I flagged them and did the minimal adjustments from camera raw in the develop module. A bump in vibrance and clarity is usually all it takes. I open the images in Photoshop CS4 and proceed to polish the images.

I save and post the pics on my studio page on facebook. This is enough time with the images for day one.

Day two.

I proceed to make a first cut by looking through all of the images in Lightroom. I hit the tilde (~) key to assign an image a flag that will help me sort later. 920 images later, 756 make it through the first cut.

I take generous breaks from spending too much time with the images during the first two cuts so that I can start each round with a clear head and little bias.

Tomorrow will narrow the images to somewhere around 600. Hopefully.

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