Tristan Romain

How efficient can Artificial Intelligence be when it comes to photo culling – Episode 2

Images or videos management, Photo culling /

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, …

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How AI Can Help The Culling Of Similar Images Right After The Photoshoot – Episode 2: Burst mode

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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. …

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How AI Can Help The Culling Of Similar Images Right After The Photoshoot

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Introduction Why do we shoot too many images (good and bad reasons) ? Fear to miss out the right moment, burst mode, two similar images won’t cost you anything in a digital world. There are many reasons to shoot a lot of images per year. Some of them are good reasons, some not but it …

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Are Rating stars a good match to automated photo culling ?

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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 …

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Can we at last get rid off SD cards For our mirrorless cameras ?

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What is this post about? I have been wondering for years what were the technical reasons that prevented a better integration of a DSLR or a mirrorless camera to your smartphone. Connectivity is certainly key. Why that? Because if your camera were coupled to your smartphone like your smartphone’s camera is to your smartphone, it …

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Auto-Alignment of Time Lapses – Episode 2 : why “Futura Time Lapse”?

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Introduction I have already written in a former blog post why there is a need to automatically align time lapse members when shooting either during windy conditions or with a tele-lens. The conclusion of this post were: for those who don’t want to pay more than $20 / month or spend hours to understand how …

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How efficient can Artificial Intelligence be when it comes to photo culling

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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 …

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A time travel to understand why we, photographers, rarely need new gear but for a few good reasons

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What this post is about I have  tested 35mm focal lenses bought between…. 1992 and 2020. What’s the point? To show that we can, and should, just come back to the basics. Yes, lenses are much better that what they used to be but don’t be fooled, it is always the same story because physics …

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RAW+JPEG: How Artificial Intelligence can help the photographer to choose the right file

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Why shoot RAW + JPEG ? This question has been answered countless times (see sources below). But as a summary, I believe there are three kind of photographers who shoot RAW + JPEG : Those who start to shoot RAW and still want to feel safe with the JPEG available Those who want to mostly …

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