In The Works

I'm currently working on several new projects that have been in the brainstorming phase for some time and are now taking shape.

I'm currently working on a system that will allow an individual to wade through a large number of photos and cull the good from the bad, and identify those that are worthy of further processing. Anybody attempting to photograph an "event" will find that the best way to capture the most important moments is not to wait to be in the right place at the right time - but to take many many photos (too many) knowing that you will toss out 80% of them (if you're lucky...).

I've come to find that taking the photos is the easy part. Wading through them and selecting the good ones can be harder. And...the harder it is, the harder it is to get to and do a good job.

The tool I'm developing will present a photographer (or client) with a means to very quickly assess the shoot, weed out the bad ones, identify the good ones, and refine the "score" so that the more intensive workflow (cropping, cleaning, straightening, etc) can focus energy on those most likely to warrant attention.

I would like to offer a system that would let someone go through a set of 500 photos in under an hour. That amounts to less roughly 8 seconds per image. Doesn't sound like enough time, but if you figure you can "effectively" spend 80% of your time considering 20% of your images, It becomes manageable.  I strive to enable that with accuracy and quality of selection.