Thanks for contacting me about editing mentoring! Editing is a really difficult and frustrating element of our career that should be enjoyable and I hope to help you get to a point where editing is rewarding and brings out the best in your images as opposed to being a horrible mundane task!

In order for me to get a really good understanding of where you’re at and what you want to achieve I need you to give me as much information as possible on these questions. So grab a brew and lets get to it!

TASKS: I need this form before our first session can be booked. After the first session I will also need your most current preset and 30 RAW files. The preset is so we can do some analysis and identify why you've not been achieving the look or consistency you want - this is great for building LR knowledge. The 30 RAW files are so I build your presets on your work - this is super important but i'll explain the best ways to send these in our first session! For now though, all i need is this!

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Website

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GENERAL EDITING

What is it you're struggling with when editing? (be as detailed as possible)

Lightroom skills - how confident are you in the develop module in Lightroom? Do you tweak without knowing what you're tweaking or do you have a good understanding of what you're doing?

List some names of photographers you like the work of in terms of editing along with what you specifically like in their editing: (e.g, I like this person because they're skin tones are exactly what i want, or i like this person because the colours all pop and stand out, etc)

What is your current preset? List what you like and dislike about it. I also need you to send me this preset so we can look at a brief analysis of what you might not be achieving the look you want with this. This can be sent via email or facebook.

YOUR COLOUR PRESET

Your preset! I want you to describe to me what you want your editing style to be:

Do you want your images to look clean/fresh/crisp in terms of contrast or do you like a softer more faded/vintagey/muted feel?

Lets be more specific! Tell me about your perfect skintone. Do you want natural skintone that retains any natural olive/redness of the people in shot or do you want a more stylised creamy skintone that controls any pinky/redness?

Your colour preset and grain - do you want any grain, a bit of grain, lots of grain? talk to me!

BLACK AND WHITE

Talk to me about your perfect black and white! List examples of photographers work where you love their black and whites and what you like about them:

Getting more specific! Your black and white preset - Do you want it contrasty, do you want it muted/faded/vintagey?

Grain - Do you want grain in your black and white preset? If so, are we talking a little, middle of the road or heavy grain? A common option is we create a black and white base preset with a tiny bit of grain or no grain alongside a tweaked version, the exact same preset with a bit more grain so you can pick and choose as and when you apply this depending on the look you're going for.

Anything else you'd like to tell me: