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Cull with hindsight

Cull with hindsight

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Cull with hindsight

- Chances are that while you were making pictures you made a lot more pictures than your client's ever going to need. They might need five pictures, they're not going to need 80 pictures. And I typically deliver two or three pictures to most of my clients, but I'm probably shooting something like 20 to 80 photographs and there's a handful of good ones that I want to allow my client to pick from. In this section, I'm going to show you how to quickly and efficiently sort through and find the best pictures without wasting a lot of time. I'm using Adobe Lightroom to work on these pictures. Whatever tool you use, it probably shows your pictures in order of the time that you shot them. And so, it'll show the first pictures first, and the last pictures last. And your tendency is probably to start with the first picture, and start going through looking for the good photographs. The thing is, with each set up that you do, with each pose, you probably had a couple of pictures that weren't…

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