Lightroom Workflow & Natural Light Portrait Editing Workshop

✨ Join us at our North Greenwich Studio for a practical 3-hour Adobe Lightroom Classic workshop designed to help you streamline your editing process and build a workflow that actually works long-term. Whether you’re looking to organise your photo library properly or refine your portrait edits, this session will walk you through the essentials step-by-step.

Led by London Photographer & Educator Chiara Luxardo, the workshop will cover everything from Lightroom catalogs, setting up a clear folder structure to importing, organising, and editing to manage your images efficiently. You’ll also be guided through a simple, clean, and natural approach to editing portraits using natural light, focusing on subtle adjustments that keep your images authentic while giving them a polished, professional finish. 

💻 You are welcome to bring your own laptops, but we’ll also have our in-Studio desktops with Adobe Lightroom Classic available throughout the workshop. This means you can comfortably follow along, practise during the session, and experience a professional editing environment without needing to bring your own equipment.

🖥️ This is a hands-on session, so feel free to bring along a selection of your own images to edit during the workshop. There’ll be time for guided practice, feedback, and questions throughout.

📂 What we’ll cover:
• Understanding Lightroom catalogs & how to use them effectively
• Creating a simple, reliable folder structure to organise images
• Best practices for importing, naming & managing image libraries
• A straightforward workflow for editing natural light portraits
• Subtle editing techniques for clean, professional-looking results
• Hands-on editing with your own images + live feedback

🎟️ Suitable for beginner photographers looking to improve their editing workflow and consistency.

Chiara Luxardo is a photographer and educator based in London and a member of Women Photograph. Their personal work delves into themes of relationships, belonging, and queerness. Chiara has been supported by the International Women's Media Foundation and the European Journalism Centre. Their practice spans commercial and corporate clients, the charities sector, and editorial work. Publications include The New York Times, The Financial Times, Internazionale, Days Japan, M Le Monde, The Guardian, Vogue Italia, and Bloomberg Business week. Recent awards include Portrait of Humanity (2020 & 2022), Pride Photo Award (2019), This is Gender Global Health 5050 (2021), and This is Gender (In) Equality (2023). Alongside their photographic practice, Chiara has been teaching photography since 2022 and collaborates with charities to deliver photography-based arts for health workshops.

The Photography Foundation is a London-based charity set up in 2019 to create pathways into photography careers and the wider creative industries. We are driven by our belief that everyone deserves a fulfilling creative career, and that creativity thrives when barriers to opportunity are removed. We have grown into a dynamic hub of creativity, community, and career development for diverse audiences. Our events programme is designed to support a sustainable creative career by enhancing your skills, promoting wellbeing, and underlining the importance of making time for inspiration and creativity in your practice. Our programme brings together a range of events with different pricing levels, allowing us to better reflect the breadth of the photography and creative careers landscape. To ensure our events remain accessible, we offer a select number of bursary tickets for paid events, and all ticket proceeds help us to continue to deliver low cost and free events for our community. We are The Photography Foundation - empowering emerging creatives to see, capture, and shape their futures.

👥 Please Note

• All levels are welcome. Cameras & equipment are provided.
• Our Public Programmes are aimed at anyone aged 16+.
If you are an adult who wishes to join with someone younger than 16 years old, please contact us in advance at Events@thephotographyfoundation.org

🎟 Ticket Information

• Spaces are limited, if you can no longer attend, please request a refund for your ticket 48 hrs before the event via Ticket Tailor. If you request a ticket refund in less than 2 days before the scheduled event, you will be charged the full cost of the ticket, and you will not receive a refund.
• There is a fee for this workshop, however if you feel unable to pay, please get in touch with us at Events@thephotographyfoundation.org as we may have bursary spaces available upon remaining availability.

📧 Accessibility

• If you have any accessibility requirements or questions please email Events@thephotographyfoundation.org
• Please note that there is lift access to our second floor studio & accessible WC facilities.

📸 Image credits: @ChiaraLuxardo @ThePhotographyFoundation

Chiara Luxardo Headshot