Mastin Labs’s Portra Pushed
As well as being the deputy editor of this fine periodical, I shoot quite a few weddings over the course of a year. It's a great way to keep my skills sharp and test new gear, especially when it comes to portraiture, as you don't get a second chance with big ‘set-piece' shots such as the vows, family groups or confetti. Because you have to work fast and keep cool under pressure, I find that shooting weddings also helps me with my more personal travel and documentary-photography work.
Like many wedding photographers, I use Lightroom Presets to speed up my editing, or workflow. They make batch editing so much easier when you have to deliver a large number of images to a client to a tight deadline. Put simply,of images in order to give them a consistent look. Adobe includes some Presets as part of the Lightroom installation, but they are fairly limited. You can make your own quite easily, but during the past few years there's been an explosion in specialist third-party presets, particularly those that claim to create the look of classic film (while keeping all the convenience of digital editing). VSCO is the market leader, and now offers a mind-boggling range of classic film-emulation presets; if you can't get hold of actual Kodak Ektachrome or Agfa Optima, this is now the next best thing for many photographers.
