Photo Workflow

Workflow & Business

Your Lightroom Catalog Is a Time Bomb (Here's How to Defuse It)

My twins are nine years old. A few years back, they were playing around on my editing workstation while I was on a call in the next room. By the time I walked back in, one of them had dragged a folder of client proofs into the Trash and emptied it. Forty-seven selects, color-graded and ready to deliver. I had them restored from a versioned backup in under 90 seconds. My kids thought I was a wizard.

July 28, 2026

Photography Workflow

Tethered Shooting Is the Closest Thing to a Safety Net This Business Offers

The first time a client asked to see the back of my camera between every single shot, I knew something had to change. Not because the request was unreasonable, but because I realized I’d built a workflow that made client collaboration awkward and slow. They’d walk over, squint at a three-inch screen in bright ambient light, say “looks good I think,” and walk back. Nobody was confident in anything. The images were fine.

July 15, 2026

Workflow & Business

Your Lightroom Catalog Is a Single Point of Failure — Here's How to Fix That

The Problem Nobody Talks About Until They’re Crying A photographer I mentored a few years back called me on a Tuesday afternoon in a panic. She’d been shooting commercial work for about three years, growing steadily, getting better clients. She opened Lightroom that morning and her catalog wouldn’t load. Not slow. Not corrupted with a warning. Just gone, as far as Lightroom was concerned. Eighteen months of edits, metadata, keywords, collections, virtual copies, all of it.

July 7, 2026