What are we talking about ? Photographers who shoot high-volume like headshots for corporation, schools or retail fashion are now using more and more integrated software based on QR code to speed up their workflow. The QR code is segmenting the shoot by subject, each being uploaded eventually on a dedicated space only accessible to the customer interested by the subject.…
Introduction A year ago, I have defined an estimated efficiency of AI photo culling. In the meantime, the company I am leading, Camera Futura, has made further improvements on their flagship product, Futura Photo, and it is now possible to refine this estimated efficiency. The rates of “false positive” (FP: wrongly detected to be discarded, painful) and “false negative” (FN: missed…
Introduction We already discussed in a previous blog post how AI can Help the culling of similar images. But we did not elaborate on how it could help when the photographer was shooting in burst mode. Burst mode shooting is the action of shooting using the bust mode, typically up to 10-20 images per second. So, each series shot in burst…
Reminder: what rating stars are OK, so the 1-5 stars serve as a rating system, “allowing users to quickly identify which photos they prefer and which they would like to discard. The specific method used to assign stars to photos varies, but it may be based on factors such as image quality, composition, and subject matter.” (chatGPT) Whereas they are many…
Introduction AI (Artificial Intelligence) and photo culling is becoming more and more mainstream with different software vendors proposing apps to photographers to ease their photo culling and perform it faster. Of course, there is no silver bullet and besides the fact each apps have strengths and limits as usual, there are critics and some are relevant as already listed in this…
Introduction I have already discussed the causes of an image’s blurriness and I won’t discuss the impact of the quality of your camera’s lens on the sharpness of photos. This post already explains why it is not a problem. It is also well known that a sharp image is no synonym to a good image. There are even fantastic blur images,…
Introduction Automation of photo culling is becoming trendy with several project that have started since less than a couple of years, even though it is still far from being mainstream if not just accepted as a real potential advantage for your workflow as a photographer. A feature proposed by most project is to cull images where the model has eyes closed.…
Introduction Since no more than couple of years, a few software capable (or claiming being capable) of culling automatically images thanks to AI and different algorithms or models have been released or are getting close for being commercially available. As usual, some will be a better match to your needs than others. But it is interesting to note how doubtful many…
November the 14th of 2019 has been the day of the official launch for Futura Photo 1.0. The company behind this software if Camera Futura Sàrl, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The software aims at streamlining the pre-process steps needed after a photo session. Indeed, over the last years, I have had the feelings I was wasting my time at culling images…