{"id":1225,"date":"2019-05-28T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tristanromain.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:55:51","slug":"they-are-no-rules-for-good-photographs-but-they-are-rules-for-poor-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristanromain.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/28\/they-are-no-rules-for-good-photographs-but-they-are-rules-for-poor-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"They are no rules for good photographs, but they are rules for poor photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As DPReview\u2019s Nigel Danson reminds us<\/a>, and to quote Ansel Adams: \u201cThere are no rules for good photographs. There are just good photographs\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are no rule for good photographs, fair enough, but I am convinced they are rules to define and detect the poor ones, whatever poor may mean for the photographer. In a digital world, we can take really a lot of pictures. I shoot 10’000-20’000 photos per year (a pro can shoot over 100’000 per year). I don’t use more than 1’000 of them. I like to believe it is important to delete most of them, just to make my life simpler when I will start the post process steps and when I look back at my images, for search or for other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less is more?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a lot of picture is not always bad habit, but at the end of the day, we all must cope with this huge and useless number of poor pictures. Therefore, it seems important to define some tangible rules that one can apply manually or through software to eliminate the wrong ones as early as possible in the workflow. Ideally, this should be done at \u201crun time\u201d during the shot itself, which is certainly possible if images are uploaded real time to the cloud and analyzed right away .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to be more concrete, let\u2019s say there is a need to detect and delete (non exhaustively):<\/p>\n\n\n\n