Images: koko_king_photo and moosho
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How to go ‘Deeper’ during the group photos
Content from Your Galleries Directly??
Big Lightroom Updates
Koko King takes us inside her wildly different engagement shoot - BTS feature
+ all the news
Now let’s go⬇
NEWS
Happening this Week
Color Science Update for Nerds. Apple presented their new colour science standard, CMF 2026 and could change everything. You know how colours look different on every screen? This new standard aims to fix that problem. This video is short but dense and will update you on how it works.
Big Lightroom Updates. This week was huge with some big big moves from Adobe. Lightroom got a big update with new features like colour grading in masks (whole new colour grading tools), Vectorscopes (a looong awaited visual tool to check skin tones), Halation Control (that glowy effect in the highlights) and so much more.
Dive into the updates here. And we have so much more on this coming soon.New Cabin Bags from Peak Design are looking very nice and very light.
A tiny camera with a waist level viewfinder has raised of $250,000 on Kickstarter this week. See the project here.
When the bride AI edits your photos what can you do? This discussion dives into it all.
Adobe Max but not Lightroom. At MAX this week, Adobe previewed new MCP connections that let your AI assistant (Chat GPT, Claude) make edits directly in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. It’s WILD what is happening in this space. Lightroom wasn’t announced but surely that will come soon. Are we going to chat to edit soon? Wild times.
Fake Boyfriend Photoshoots are a growing trend not just in China - this video surfaced this week and dove into why.
NEW NEW
Content for photographers is easy now
Images: ohh.ginger
🚨 This is insane.
Pic-Time now let’s you use a smart search to curate images together from ALL your galleries and automatically pulls them into content. Reels, posts, blogs. Nicely curated, from directly inside your gallery delivery software.
We are actually mind blown.
Tastefully made reels that show off your photos?
A little video teaser that shows of a gallery?
Want to find all images with blue tones in them to curate into a post? DONE.
Pic-Time is raising the bar for photography software and if you haven’t tried it out yet… we suggest you do.
PLUS we have a special Lensel x Pictime deal for you here.
Easy Right?!
THE BIG IDEA
⚫️ The Deeper Group Photo: The #1 tip
Images: alicemahran and hollyclarkphotography
If you are like most wedding photographers… you hate the group/family photos.
Often eating into your couple portrait time, you lock into ‘JUST GET IT DOWN MODE.’….
But there’s another way to think about it all. Today we dive into ‘The Deeper Group Photo and give you our number 1 tip for dialling in.
*this article is for Lensel PRO members only
FEATURED SHOOT
An Engagement Shoot but not as you know it. We go Behind the Scenes with Koko King
If we are honest, most engagement shoot are boring right? THIS is far from it.
We loved going behind the scenes with Koko King to see what went into photographing this shoot. From lighting scenarios, to coming up with the ideas - this is full of little gems:
- on how to time your shoots
- how to think about lighting
- and how to think about getting WAY more creative with your images and shoot concepts.
See the full BTS of this engagement shoot featured now on lensel.com
PS you really need to read this one ⬆️
WORKSHOP
Skills x3 - the practical workshop
We’ve got something different to end the year.
3 Photographers teaching 3 different skills. (Skills x3 duh)
Practical, to the point and designed to give you BETTER SHOOTING SKILLS for you next wedding/shoot.
We’ll reveal the skills one by one over the next few weeks. First one drops soon.
Live Online - Tuesday, December 8th, 2026
🇪🇺 5.30pm CET (Central Europe)
🇬🇧 4.30pm GMT (UK)
🇺🇸 11.30am EST (US East Coast)
🇺🇸 8.30am PST (US West Coast)
Replay will be available!
INSPO TO KEEP YOU FRESH
⬇️ Pushing the curation on Insta boundaries once again - if you are looking for new ways to curate your images on Insta this is a MUST SEE.
⬇️ A cropping masterclass from this YSL shoot? YES that’s what it is.
⬇️ Following last weeks issue on ‘Vantage Points’ we loved seeing this shot and the rest of the black and whites scenes.
The quick of hit - stop just shooting next to your couple. Think about different vantage points to create something a little different.
⬇️ Incredible portraits, incredible light - all shot on film. This post is a must see.
That’s Lensel, until next week:
