Another great Lightroom feature is the ability to do tethered shooting, that is connecting your camera to your computer and shooting and having the images come directly into Lightroom. I use this all the time in the studio, but I'm not there right now. So I've just had to set up a little example here in my office for you. So I'm going to go ahead and go File and start tethered capture, rather file tethered capture, stop tethered capture. And by default, it Lightroom needs to create a folder to save the new photos in. And by default, it calls it studio session.

So of course it's studio session, that's fine, we good to go. It's automatically going into the pictures folder, which is also a good thing. I could rename the files here during import, I'll let them be called studio session, I can apply my metadata template as always will do that. I could even apply keywords during import as well which I'm not going to worry about. So I'm going to go ahead and click OK. We can see the little tethered shooting icon appears it says my camera detected right now I do. There we go.

Now my cameras popped up. So I've got my dad hundred connected through the USB three lead. And you can see the settings right here it's on 100 ISO auto white balance f 2.8. And I mean aperture priority right now. So it's thinking it wants about 2.5 seconds to get the exposures because we're in pretty low light. So let's just go ahead and shoot I can find the camera from here.

So I'm just going to shoot and we'll see what I've got it pointed up. So there's the shot, and here it is. I've got this little arm. It's actually a little opium pipe that I bought in Cambodia because I thought it was an interesting looking little artifact and it comes straightaway into Lightroom. So that's, this is how I shoot in the studio all the time. It's a fantastic way to shoot because you can just instantly You know, see your results and inspect them and so forth.

And another cool thing you can do if I take this image into the develop module, and I think I kind of let's nice, that's nice, but how about we just bring the exposure up a tiny bit, I'm sure I could do this in camera as well. But I just want to illustrate what I can do here in Lightroom is kind of a little bit of contrast, maybe even a little bit of clarity right there. And maybe pull those highlights kind of down a little bit and get this kind of gritty look. And maybe I'll just want to darken off the background as well. Maybe I'll get down to my lens correction, and manual and just add a little bit of vignetting around the outside. So now if I go before, after before, after, I've got a little bit more of an interesting image, and I'm going to make a preset of that.

So over here, if I click Add preset, and I'm going to call that what do we call that pot. Let's just call it pot for now. And I'm going to include all these settings in the preset Now I can go down to my capture little sort of toolbar here. And under the develop settings I can choose use a preset and pipe. So now each subsequent shot I shoot will automatically have those settings applied. So let's take another one.

And I'm not sure if you heard the camera clicking in the background, and you can see and it comes with those adjustments applied automatically. So that's I often do that in the studio, particularly when you got clients there and they want to you know, your raw files invariably come in looking a little bit flat so it's nice to give them that little bit of a boost that you probably will lighter anyway, and have that instantly applied to the image and back in our grid view, we got them covering like that what I normally do in the studio, I select the most recent image I press F for full screen, and then I just go ahead shooting because I'm normally not triggering the camera from the computer. I'm normally you know pressing the button on the camera, so shot just comes in full screen next one next one next one and then we can just go F to jump out so tethered shooting it's a wonderful thing invaluable in the studio really I think to see you say your images straight away works very well check the URL.

I mean, most cameras are supported and if you had recent cameras Lightroom adds updates pretty quickly to support new cameras, couple of things of interest, Nikon shooters as a Nikon shooter, Nikon doesn't actually save to camera so when you're shooting tethered, the photos go to the computer but they're not saved on the card on the camera. Something worth being aware of canon on the other hand does. Canon certainly does shoot two Canon cameras simultaneously. Nikon does not not exactly sure why that is but something you might want to be aware of when tethered shooting