Tethered Shooting using Lightroom!

If you are using Lightroom on a laptop computer especially in a studio environment, you might want to use the tethered shooting ability that Lightroom has. Note however that you need to have your camera manufactureres computer camera control software for this to work and that you should refer to the documentation to that software for how to set that up.

What is Tethered Shooting?

Tethered Shooting is basically when you hook up your camera to your computer using the USB chord that came with your camera and you take your photos in your camera but they will automatically transfer directly to your computer instead of your memory card and you’ll be able to see them live on your computer, on a bigger screen than in your camera.

What do you need?

First off you need a camera that is capable of shooting tethered. You also will need your USB chord for your camera that came with it. You also before going ahead with this tutorial, need to set-up a so called ”watched folder” in your camera control software for your camera (which you’ll also need) and remember its destination.

Setting it up in Lightroom

In Lightroom it is a pretty simple set-up process. First, go to File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings which will bring up your auto import settings dialog which looks like this:

In the first option you want to select the watched folder that you created earlier where the images from your camera will auto-save to. The next step is to select where you want to move your images when you are importing them to Lightroom. After that you are given the normal import options of custom naming and also if you want to add processing presets, keywords or other information as well.

Once this is done you can hit the OK button and you can under File > Auto Import, go to Enable Auto Import and then once you start shooting with your camera hooked up and your controller program running; you will see that the photos get imported to lightroom in the Auto Import folder you choosed.

2 November, 2008 | Erik Bernskiold | Library, Organizing, Tethered | CommentsTethered+Shooting+using+Lightroom%212008-11-02+13%3A56%3A26Erik+Bernskiold