Lightroom Tethering and Client Proofing

Lesson 1: Introduction
Published: February 2015 with Scott Kelby

Duration: 33 minutes

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Take Lightroom Mobile to the next level by using it for client proofing! In this class Scott Kelby demonstrates how you can leverage Lightroom's native tethering functionality to transfer photos from the camera to your computer while you shoot, and then seamlessly integrate Lightroom Mobile into the process so that you can share those photos with others on the set or far away in a remote location as it happens. Once configured the process is so streamlined you're not going to believe how easy it is and how cool it looks to your clients.

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Hi everybody, it's Kirk Kelby here and we're going to do a class on first, how a tether from camera to your laptop. We're going to start off with that, so its tethering in the Light room. Tethering is built in, it's super easy and then the second part of this class we're going actually look at using Lightroom Mobile for Client Proofing. And if that sounds like a really boring topic, wait till you see it, because it's so incredibly cool. It's some of the coolest technology, they have introduced since they had Lightroom. And once you see it, you will realize the power of having it. How cool it makes you look as a photographer, I think that's really really compelling. So, we're going to start off with the whole tethering process, but I guess the first thing I would want to know is, why should I tether? What the advantage of tethering? Well I can tell you this, tethering is such a huge strategic advantage for your as a photographer, your going to get better pictures than you have any time before, because you're finally going to be able to see your pictures at a size that you make really really great decisions about lighting, about sharpness, about the direction and the quality of the subject. So, let me give you an example of why tethering is so important. So when you tether, instead of seeing the images on the back of your camera, you are going to see them on Lightroom. I want to show you what the difference is, first when you tether here's what the shots look like, this is how big they are, right there, let me just hit the right buttons there alright that's how big it is. When you're not tethering, you're making your decisions on sharpness, on lighting, on posing on everything, at this size. We cut this out to be exact same size, as the LCD monitor on the back of your camera. Don't be fooled by the little black plastic area that's surrounded and all that things that help with contrast, that's not the size of the monitor this is the actual size. This is what we as photographers make our decisions on all those really critical things. That's why sometimes later when you open your images in Lightroom, you've experienced the heart break of going, the best shot of the day, the one I thought I got it, I nailed it, you opened it up and it's little bit out of the focus. Their eyes are little bit out of focus, their hair and some little thing and it's in shots room and you know you have to throw it away. The problem is at this size pretty much everything looks in focus, at that size you can really actually see the difference, so that's the most important part is why do we want to tether? Because we get bigger results, now we're in a 15 inch laptop here, a lot of people will tether in studio where they got a large IMac a 27 [xx] or big go monitors or something like that, and now you're seeing your images at giant size at huge sizes and that makes just a tremendous difference. So I think that's the most compelling reason. The second compelling reason is, it's just so easy, why wouldn't you do it. In fact, it's so easy I try to do this on location as much as I possibly can from album aside, if I can I would try to take this same setup and actually use it as much as I can that can't because it that big and advantage and if you get that big advantage why wouldn't you do it? It is easy, it is built in the Lightroom and your photography will look better, they will be no reason not to tether, and the next segment I will show you to set it all up.

Scott Kelby

Scott is the President and CEO of KelbyOne, is also the original "Photoshop Guy", is the editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference, Training Director and instructor for KelbyOne Live Seminars, and author of a string of bestselling technology and photography books.