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 01/26/2005 10:34:32 AM · #1
There are situation where a photographer ends up with many acceptable images from a particular situation but needs to select only one or two of the images to show. I have tried filtering out the lower quality shots, and that can usually cut a collection in half in one pass, but that is still too many images to show. I'm curious what techniques dpc'ers have found to be affective in this situation?
 01/26/2005 10:59:05 AM · #2
After separating the lesser work from the better, I'd select for coherence within a 'form'. I'm not so much thinking of catagories and genres but, intsead, try to view a selection as a whole (similar to the way we look at a single picture).
 01/26/2005 11:55:48 AM · #3
after hours of grueling work sorting images I just give up and ask freinds to pick ther favorites and most disliked.... Ahh freinds a quicker yet still painfull way of sorting out photos.
 01/26/2005 12:16:49 PM · #4
45% of my picks is because of composition, 45% is on sharpness (being mostly a wildlife photographer), and 10% on uniquness.

May sound silly but thats how I work it. Almost everything else can be fix with Photoshop.
 01/26/2005 12:42:28 PM · #5
Originally posted by tristalisk:
after hours of grueling work sorting images I just give up and ask freinds to pick ther favorites and most disliked.... Ahh freinds a quicker yet still painfull way of sorting out photos.


Me too. its faster.. and sometimes, they see something that you don't

Message edited by author 2005-01-26 12:42:51.
 01/26/2005 12:44:19 PM · #6
It just comes to you. You come down to two or three you love, sleep on it. That don't work, flip a coin.

Asking friends is bad policy most of the time unless you have a lucky friend. If you do badly with their pick you are going to harbor at least a subconscious resentment for having taken that advice.
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