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Workflow & Efficiency

How to Edit 500 Photos in the Time It Usually Takes You to Edit 20

Last spring I agreed to cover a friend’s wedding as a favor. Not as the photographer, just as a backup shooter with a mirrorless camera and a wide-angle lens. Three hours later I had 600 raw files, a headache, and a very clear reminder of why I stopped shooting events. The editing wasn’t the problem. The volume was. And if you’ve ever come home from a shoot, opened Lightroom, and felt your stomach drop at the number in the bottom corner of your catalog, you know exactly what I mean.

September 13, 2026

Workflow & Efficiency

How I Edit 200 Photos in 20 Minutes Using Lightroom's Batch Tools (Without Making Them All Look the Same)

Last spring I had a client deliver 340 RAW files from a single-day brand shoot. Same location, same subject, same lighting rig from 9am to 3pm. On paper, that sounds like a batch editor’s dream. Uniform conditions, predictable exposures, clean white balance. I figured I’d be done by dinner. I was done by midnight, and not because I was being precious about each frame. I was done at midnight because I kept chasing inconsistencies I created myself by applying the same global edits to shots that, despite looking identical at a glance, had subtly different exposure values, different distances from the strobe, and different amounts of ambient window light creeping in as the afternoon wore on.

July 16, 2026

Workflow & Efficiency

One Edit, 847 Photos: How Batch Editing in Lightroom Actually Works

Last spring I delivered a 900-image wedding gallery in about four hours of editing time. The couple cried when they saw it. The photographer who hired me as a second editor sent a follow-up asking how I turned around work that fast without it looking like a machine had processed every frame. The honest answer is that a machine did process most of it. I just told the machine exactly what to do.

July 5, 2026