Cut Your Culling Time in Half

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Have you ever listened to a This American Life podcasts from NPR?

If you haven’t, then I congratulate you on your cool-ness.

If you have listened to way too much NPR, then you are either an uber-nerd or a photographer that’s editing.

I happen to fall into both categories.

Welcome to my geeky world where an hour of listening to investigative reporting on the effects of toxic investments on the economic meltdown sounds like a pretty good time while achieving natural skin tones.

When it comes to processing images, podcasts have become my life-savers. I have found several sixty-minute, thirty-minute, and fifteen-minute podcasts that I basically use to time myself during afternoons of culling and editing.

Cull an engagement shoot? That’s an hour-long This American Life.

Edit the blog images from a wedding? A thirty minute interview from Fresh Air.

Categorize a wedding for proofing? I’ll cue up a fifteen minute 99% Invisible podcast with Roman Mars.

But this wasn’t always the case.

Before we started using Photo Mechanic to cull our images, I needed an entire AUDIOBOOK to finish a job.

Watch my quick screencast and see how we use Photo Mechanic to quickly and effectively cull, sort, tag, and prep our images before editing them in Lightroom.

Our culling time was cut in HALF with this simple, easy, and inexpensive program!

Hugs,
Erin

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We’re Jeff and Erin Youngren – and it’s our mission to help you thrive not just as a wedding photographer, but as a business owner. It’s time to set aside the stress and comparison of a hustle mindset, and build a life-giving business instead.

We met in college, got married, and started corporate jobs before we discovered (and fell in love with) wedding photography. But like many creative entrepreneurs, we were booking anything we could, strapped to our laptops and living dangerously close to burnout.

So we dug in and learned how to build a thriving business that supports our dream life – instead of a joyless business that runs a stressed-out life.

Today, we photograph only 10 Dreamie weddings per year, but we also run two other wedding brands plus a commercial studio in San Diego, CA. And we do it by only working the hours that fit into our life. The other hours? We spend those living a joyful life raising our two beautiful sons, James and Samuel.

hugs,

Jeff and Erin

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