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Introduction to Tethered Shooting using Lightroom.



Tethered shooting is connecting a computer to the camera when you shoot so the pictures you take are downloaded to the computer rather than (or in addition) to a memory card.

The camera and computer are connected by cable, hence tethering.

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WHY TETHER SHOOT
The best thing about Tether shooting is that you get to watch the raw photographs on the computer. At the same time others present on the set, Make Up Artist, Fashion Stylist, Art Director or even your clients can view them too on a much larger screen rather than your camera’s LCD screen.


Tethered capture view on Lightroom 5

Tether shooting also allows you to do fine adjustments to the photo’s you just shot like, Exposure, White Balance and Focus too, so that your next shoot would be as you desire.

Charles Joseph viewing the photo and making fine adjustments to it. 

SET UP & WORKFLOW
I usually mount my camera on a tripod and place the laptop at waist level on a table, chair or any flat surface.
Then there is the cable that connects the camera to the computer. Most of the time I use the same USB cable that came along with the camera as my camera and laptop are close to each other. On some shoots (Fashion mostly) when I shoot hand held and move around to frame my shot, I use the Tether Pro Cable by TETHER TOOLS, which is 15 feet’s in length.

Tether Pro cable for Nikon D7000

Once you have your set up ready, it’s time to connect your camera to the laptop and start shooting.
There are lots of software’s which allow you to use Tether Shooting, but as the post says, we’ll be using Adobe Lightroom. For this tutorial, I’m using Lightroom 5. 

Tether shooting using Lightroom

Launch Lightroom

Connect your camera and the laptop using the USB cable. 


Goto File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture.

Once you click Start Tethered Capture, A pop up box appears which offers Tethered capture setting.


I names it "Portrait Session" as I was shooting Portraits, you can name it what ever you are shooting or you like to name it . 

choose a destination folder of your choice and then click the OK tab.

Once you click OK this screen will appear, Lightroom will try to identify your camera model. 
As you can see, I use the Nikon D7000 for this shoot.  

once your connected and done with it, start shooting!


what ever you shoot, would be displayed in your Library. 

White Balance correction done on the above image. 

You can Quickly make some corrections if needed and if you are happy with the result , you can set the values on your camera and continue with your shoot. 

So get your camera, connect it to your laptop and give it a try. fall in Love with a completely new way of shooting. 

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