10/14/2026
A lot of people assume that photography is a job that “gives you more free time,” and as much as I wish that were the case… it absolutely is not. 🤣
The wedding I’m currently exporting from Lightroom has clocked over 20 hours of editing so far. And I still have retouching to do before I can re-export, upload, and deliver the final gallery. By the time it’s all said and done, I’ll likely have invested an entire 24-hour day into the editing process alone.
And that doesn’t include the actual wedding day.
There are ways to expedite this process, absolutely. But that would mean sacrificing some of those artistic, “not quite perfect” photographs that I love so much.
I could outsource editing to get some of that time back, but then I’d have to raise my prices to justify the expense.
I could take on fewer sessions, but bills still have to get paid, taxes ruin everything (🤣), and I hate the thought of turning people away.
I’m learning how to say no. How to stop nitpicking images to death. How to stop overshooting and overdelivering. How to establish boundaries between my work and my life.
But the hard part is that some of those things are also where the magic happens for me.
I love finding the photograph that might have been overlooked. The imperfect moment that tells a better story than the technically perfect one. The little details that nobody asked me to capture but might mean everything to someone someday.
And I don’t want to lose that.
Photography is a full-time job, often with a whole lot of unpaid overtime. It’s a business, an art form, and a labor of love, all wrapped into one.
I love what I do. Truly. But I’m also learning that loving your job doesn’t mean it should consume your entire life.
So, to those of you who don’t rush me, who give me the space to create, and who trust that the time I spend behind this screen is time spent making something meaningful for you…
Thank you for trusting the process. ❤️