![]() Personally speaking I know I’d always want to check everything, which defeats the purpose somewhat. And, to be brutally honest, feels a little lazy. And I’m sure it will get closer.īut the idea that you could eventually run a wedding through it and barely cast your eye over the results, which is what some photographers are saying they now do, seems like a pipe dream to me. ![]() The idea is that you’ll finesse the slider settings and when you make your own final selection it’ll start learning, eventually making ‘better’ choices more often. I felt I was swapping one manual workflow for another which is arguably less intuitive and more complex than the first, resulting in a final selection I didn’t really ‘believe’ in. When I started going through what it rejected, that promise started to lose its shine. I didn’t think it would be able to take over culling completely, but I hoped it could make some impact. Plus the promise of being able to correct it and teach it are exciting. ![]() On top of that there’s a great range of settings to customise for example, how many you want to cull, and your threshold for eyes-closed, or out-of-focus images (both of which have apparently had big updates in their effectiveness since I tried it). Objectively? Well… I think if I showed you what Aftershoot produced at default settings when I tried it back in April 2022 you’d be impressed at how usable the results seem. Subjectively speaking, I think you know my answer! So can Aftershoot really cull a wedding for you? So just to re-iterate my disclaimer in bold above, I really do believe that if you’re at all curious about whether AI culling could work for you, you should give Aftershoot a try. According to this post on their blog several recent updates significantly finesse the interface and how it makes selections, especially with regard to ‘closed eyes’ and what’s considered a duplicate image. It’s now October 2022 and the hard-working team at Aftershoot have released significant updates based on user feedback. UPDATE, October 2022: This post was originally written in April 2022. So you should probably give it a go just to see how you feel about it. For example, many of us photographers suffer from serious ‘imposter syndrome’ and criticise our own work far too harshly, so the culling process opens us up to some serious opportunities to self-criticise!īut in testing this particular AI culling tool I’ve learned I need to know for sure that every image in the gallery is telling the story that I want to tell in a way that best represents both my style and the people in the photos, and leaving it to an AI which I then feel compelled to double-check is a false economy.ĭisclaimer: all of this is just my opinion, and lots of photographers claim to love it. I don’t think anyone really ‘enjoys’ culling a wedding shoot manually, for all sorts of reasons. Personally, I found learning to use it more frustrating and time consuming than just culling the shoot myself, and I never trusted the results completely anyway. ![]() Unfortunately I didn’t really click with Aftershoot – but it’s important to say that is just my opinion, and you may have a completely different experience. Some of these are now a permanent part of my wedding photography workflow – Lightroom’s new masking and healing tools are like magic and save many a diversion over to Photoshop DxO’s Pure Raw 2 is so good with high ISO files that it’s literally changed my working life for the better and ImagenAI gets me closer to the finished image than a Lightroom preset so I have more time to focus on creative edits (seriously, I love it – use this link to set up a trial account and they’ll give you an extra 500 credits for free – 1500 free edits in total). Is Aftershoot a good tool for wedding photographers?Īrtificial intelligence is everywhere now in photography tools: Aftershoot uses AI to cull shoots Adobe‘s using AI in Lightroom Classic’s masking and content-aware fill tools Topaz Labs and DxO both use it to power their image quality apps and ImagenAI uses it to learn your editing style.
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