Reclaim Your
Weekends.
Stop drowning in culling, preset application, and inbox management. Hire a fully managed Virtual Assistant trained specifically for wedding & portrait photographers to handle your post-production workflow.
Fluent in your creative ecosystem
More Than Just Editing.
From the moment the wedding ends to final gallery delivery, our Virtual Assistants handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on shooting and scaling.
Culling & Selection
Send us your Smart Previews. We comb through thousands of RAWs, removing blinks, duplicates, and missed focus shots to deliver a tight, storytelling gallery.
Base Preset Application
We apply your signature preset across the culled catalog, adjusting basic exposure, white balance, and contrast so the gallery is 90% finished when you open it.
Inbox & Inquiry Management
Responding to new leads, sending pricing guides, setting up consultation calls via Calendly, and answering basic client questions within 24 hours.
Album Design & Proofing
Using SmartAlbums or Fundy to pre-design beautiful spreads, sending proofs to clients, and handling the revision requests.
Blogging & SEO
Selecting the best images, resizing for web, writing SEO-friendly vendor copy, and formatting beautiful blog posts on WordPress or Showit.
Social Media Scheduling
Prepping Instagram grids, tagging vendors, scheduling posts/reels, and pinning gallery images to Pinterest to maintain a consistent online presence.
The Post-Production Pipeline
No massive hard drives required. We use industry-standard Smart Previews.
Build Smart Previews
Create a Lightroom Catalog of your recent wedding. Generate Smart Previews (making a 100GB wedding just a few MBs) and upload the catalog file to Dropbox or Google Drive.
PM Delegation & Briefing
Your dedicated Project Manager assigns the catalog to your VA, ensuring they have your specific culling rules and presets ready to go.
Culling & Editing Execution
The VA culls the gallery down to the best storytelling images, applies your base preset, and straightens horizons. The PM QA checks the final catalog.
Sync & Pay
You download the tiny edited `.lrcat` file, open it, and all edits sync instantly to your RAWs. You pay only for the exact hours logged.
Why Sagedoer Over Upwork?
Your art requires consistency. We provide a managed infrastructure.
Traditional Freelancers
Ghosting Mid-Season
Freelancers get busy or burn out in October, leaving you stranded with 10 unedited weddings.
Platform Markups
You pay up to 30% more in hidden fees to the freelance platform on top of the hourly rate.
You Manage Quality
You have to constantly micromanage their edits and correct sloppy culling.
Sagedoer Managed VA
Seamless Continuity
If your VA is sick, your PM seamlessly deploys an internally trained backup. Your workflow never stops.
0% Hidden Fees
You pay exactly the hourly rate ($6 or $7) for pure work. Simple, centralized USD invoicing.
Free PM QA Checks
Your dedicated Project Manager performs quality assurance on the edits before the catalog is sent back to you.
Invest in Your Business.
Premium creative talent. Zero management overhead.
Part-Time Assistant
20 Hours / Week
Est. $560 USD / Month (4 Wks)
- Dedicated Project Manager Included
- Pay only for hours of pure work
- Zero setup or onboarding fees
- No monthly membership charges
Full-Time Assistant
40 Hours / Week
Est. $960 USD / Month (4 Wks)
- Dedicated Project Manager Included
- Pay only for hours of pure work
- Zero setup or onboarding fees
- No monthly membership charges
Frequently Asked Questions
You don't! We use the industry-standard "Smart Preview" workflow. You build Smart Previews in your Lightroom Classic catalog (which shrinks a 100GB wedding to about 1GB), and send us just the `.lrcat` and Smart Previews data files via Dropbox/Drive. We edit, send the tiny catalog back, and it syncs instantly to your high-res RAWs.
Absolutely. During onboarding, you will provide your custom preset and an "anchor catalog" (a wedding you've already edited). Your VA studies this to learn your preferences for warmth, contrast, skin tones, and cropping. The Project Manager oversees this training period.
Yes. Our VAs can log into your CRM (HoneyBook, Dubsado, etc.) or Gmail as your "Studio Assistant." They can answer basic pricing inquiries, send contract links, schedule engagement sessions, and collect vendor questionnaires—freeing you from the inbox.
No. You strictly pay the hourly rate ($6 or $7) based on the VA's actual working time. The Project Manager's supervision, onboarding, and QA checks are provided completely free of charge.
Focus on the Art. Let Us Handle the Rest.
Stop spending your weekends behind a computer screen. Reach out today to discuss your photography workflow.