Any wedding photographers here?

"Candid moments always bring out the true essence of a wedding day. At Sagunthala Media Vision, we believe those unscripted emotions tell the most powerful stories. Love capturing those pure, fleeting seconds that make memories timeless! 💫📸"

I have done wedding shoots and fashion and art and urbex.  I prefer Photoshop.  As I can really get into each picture and adjust things.  Now if you want to batch process things then Lightroom is better.  So to me it all depends on your style of editing.

I do admit I steer away from wedding shoots.  I tend to shoot a million photos.... and I literally hate editing them all.  Also, I always tend to under price myself for wedding shoots as I am scared the client will go to someone else.  So the amount of work I put it does not equate to what I would get on fashion shoot.  😞

So it really depends if you want to edit in bulk or individually.  Both pieces of software have their benefits and cons.  But I would definitely have PHOTOSHOP regardless... just in case.

Mainly use LR. PS get hands when you need to fix some issue. But normal edit you don't need. 

Hi Scott!

Just thought I'd say hello - I'm a wedding photographer in Minnesota (United States.) I use both Lightroom and Photoshop for every project. I use Lightroom for all the basics of editing, then bring any images into Photoshop for a final polish prior to showing clients. "Polishing" can mean anything from removing distracting background elements to skin smoothing, removing undereye circles/flyaway hairs/bruises/etc. Both are definitely needed for me!

I've shot a few wedding so far, hopefully more soon. But I've only needed Photoshop to do a few batch operations. I would would only edit in detail if I'm trying to save and image I think is worth keeping by removing one or two things. Most the time we want to make sure we shoot the pictures right to begin with to minimize post edit.

Scott,

Just went to your site, looked through a few wedding posts. You actually do see light! I see so many photographers these days who don't really see light as a tool ... as long as the camera meter finds it "usable" they shoot away, with no thought of highlights, shadows, shapes, backgrounds ... overall contrast,  all that sort of thing.

You have some very professionally done images that captured the reality and the joy of the events. Appropriately prepped for color, tonality, and feel ... and very, very smoothly worked. Clearly you started with well-exposed images (a challenge for so many these days) and were shooting in situations you could control ... as much as we can at "live" weddings. And then did righteous post work on them.

Very nice!

Neil

Been a full-time pro portrait/wedding photographer for 40 years now. My, how the time has flown! The first Photoshop we used was I think CS2, and we've used Lightroom since the something like .8 version "public beta". My wife and I are both PPA Master Photographers, both CPP's, and yea, Lightroom is the main place where the bulk of the work takes place, using the great culling features, ranking, auto-grouping, searching by keywords & meta, and basic image manipulation from cropping to general "looks".

Some images can get by with Lr, but ... for most of our main portrait images, they will go into Photoshop for final polishing.

A good friend ... in fact, we mentored her into her own business after she was working with us ... uses a total Bridge/Ps workflow. I've tried to show her Lr a couple times, but for her small operation, she's quite comfortable with the workflow she has, and there's no real reason she should change then.

I know a couple commercial shooters who use Capture One ... but for the most part, it's either Lr/Ps or Br/Ps among the many pros we know.

Neil

Funny seeing this post.  To the OP I'm a wedding videographer. Pretty much every photographer I work with seems to use Lightroom. Occasionally one will use Aperture. Very few need PS outside of what Szalam said, just using it to touch up here & there when they really want to.

Nice work, btw

Most of the event photographers I know use Lightroom mostly. It's very easy to go through a huge batch of photos, pick good ones, and edit them. Lightroom has gotten very good even at pretty complex spot editing. They pull Photoshop out for more complex fixes or when compositing.