Intro to Lightroom

Lightroom is often referred to as the new digital darkroom. Each artist has a unique style and perspective that can be developed through building a practice. Understanding how to move your images from your camera to a file through an online platform or external drive, staying organized while editing and sharing can make all the difference in building your online presence while processing for social media or printing in large scale format.
This Lightroom workshop is designed to support you in understanding how to find your own unique style while also building confidence in your workflow.

Topics that will be covered:

• Cropping for Impact
• Profiles and Presets
• Removing Distractions
• Painting with Light,
• Colour Theory and Grading
• Masking
• Saving Files and Uploading to Social Media

During this workshop, we will edit several styles of images, from portrait to landscape, to ensure that, whether you shoot for yourself and your family or you are working within a communications department and want to sharpen your skills, this course will add value to your photography.

Please bring:

• Camera
• SD Card
• Card Reader
• Laptop (preferred - could also bring Ipad)
• Mouse and trackpad
• Notebook
• Saved images you would like to work on
• Water bottle - Snacks of your choice
• External hard drive

Lucy Sager has spent most of her life living and working in remote British Columbia, Canada with Indigenous peoples, while focussing on her work to support equitable access to transportation security and drivers licensing services.
Originally, her stories were presented to government through photography and upon hearing that photography didn't qualify as data, she turned to academia to prove that her story of systemic exclusion were true by studying to earn a doctorate in social sciences.
Not long into her studies, she crossed paths with the visual ethnography legends of Edward Curtis and James Teit who spent their lives documenting Indigenous stories across Canada and the United States, not only to prove their own stories were true through photography, but as a way to preserve history, culture and Indigenous rights.
Leaning into a love of photography and doubling down on images as data, Lucy took a year leave from working in Canada to see the world and train her eye and her heart to gain perspective on what really matters.
With her backpack, camera, and computer, she walked through Bali, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa, Madagascar, France and Mongolia. To say life looks different would be an understatement. Having reached the Vietnam war museum and the exhibit of photo journalists, she laid down her books and trusted that her camera would be enough to tell the story. Photography isn't just time and light... It's an emotion.
Winner of the Visions 2025 Travel Photographer of the year for the category of people, Lucy now resides in Edmonton, Alberta and looks forward to sharing her knowledge with others as they bring their own story to light.

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