
AfterShoot, which edits batches of images to cull out flawed ones.Hurd has saved himself countless hours of work by learning how to edit in Lightroom by adopting a few AI-driven tools, including:

“ really powerful to be able to expend your mental energy on other things and not the tedious stuff that people always procrastinate on,” he says. To him, “that’s a really freeing feeling.”ĭuring the pandemic, Hurd began using photography tools powered by AI in order to streamline his workflow and spend less time editing images for clients. “Especially at the end of the wedding, when you just get to give your photos to the primary photographer and they have to dive in to all the post-production stuff later on,” Hurd says during his RF+WPPI webinar, “ Using AI in Lightroom for Fast and Consistent Editing,” where he explains how to edit in Lightroom with artificial intelligence. While the Washington, D.C.-based photographer loves what he does, he sometimes misses the experience of being a second shooter. Sam Hurd started his career as a portrait and celebrity photographer before transitioning to shooting weddings full-time in the past few years.
