Lesson 04 Comparing Similar Photos and Choosing the Best

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In Lesson 04 you will learn more about culling your photos and how to compare them with each other and see the differences which will help you to choose your best photos.

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You're doing well, you're making good progress in this workflow course. Please be encouraged to use the comments section to ask me questions if I'm not clear enough, and my teaching, or remember just to review each lesson if you haven't really grasped the content. Now we start to refine the process of counting your images and choosing the best ones. So looking at the different images is only one of these. That's not a great image, but I think I'll leave at the end there. Some mass movements last color.

So next, select four to six images depending on the size of your monitor, and he's in key to croute them and show only the selected images on your monitor. Now you can begin to compare the similar images in the sequences to choose which is the beast that's similar process to what you might have experienced as a child with a puzzle box we had two similar images in your head to pick out the differences in each image what was missing from one or what was in another one it's a matter of making these comparisons and saying what parts of the composition you like and what parts of the compositions you don't like. So looking at this guy here in the shadow I like that a lot Chicken Fish shot it's not really sad it's loaded But no, he's not sharp enough which is a bit disappointing but I wanted to leave this one here to illustrate something else and that in the composition, so it's not really sharp but we'll carry on Have a look at some of the other ones that one doesn't work the action was no good.

This one's okay have tilted the view of my camera down to avoid that bit of bright sky there. But the action and the shadows don't really work as well. And she's also had a focus. So that's immediately I'll delete part one of set far out of focus, I just don't keep them. One of the first things I learned in the newspaper was that you must keep your images sharp, you must make sure they're sharp, and that's always stuck with me. unless I've got intentional motion blur and an image that's out of focus.

I will delete it. I don't keep it. Just a big bright patch in the sky up there is the reason I tilted my camera down for these other images to avoid saying, but that one didn't work as well. This one's okay but not particularly sharp. Select the next series I'll take six of these because I've got a nice big monitor. I can handle them all together and see them clearly.

Face today with the guy on them, they didn't really work. He's not really looking at the cameras not really got any interesting action happening there. So we'll take both of those two out are those cinemas rejected? The next one here is pretty bright up there and kind of distracting, it doesn't really balance well. Some of these other ones, we these people on the way it's not quite so bright, but we've still got that bright patch of sky right at the top of the frame. I could crop out but it's Yeah, I'll leave them there for now and come back to them later and decide later.

So the next series of four, nothing particularly exciting and there. That's always really difficult at the market to get a really good wide action shot where everything just comes together well. And I didn't manage it with any of these. I don't think Just looking at the action looking was there nice seconds is two and three not so good this one here. Okay, let's have a look of his shot not he's out of focus so rejected. Now this series is a longer series of static or more or less static subject the background will have a lot to do with it or select a number of these are all fairly similar that one is out for sure what the person walking in front.

Now let's start to compare some of these ones. This first one here the compositions a little bit different. So I want regard that one as part of the series. I didn't quite like the composition. I think it worked quite nicely. But all the action out there on those ones is destroyed.

Right, so I'll deselect that first one by Ctrl clicking it and then have the X key to reject those four, that doesn't really work. So now on to select another batch and take a careful look at them. What we've got here is one there was the person walking into the frame, so that's rejected. And then also, the interaction of people in the background was actually quite distracting. So not really working with these people quite close to the This one the third one was the lady with a shed idea that's quite nice. I think I'll keep that and then back to using the G key to go back to our grid view leaving that one selected and then shift clicking to select for more Governor's five similar images to look at, again rejecting the ones using the X key where I don't want to see them where it's obvious that they're not going to work.

And then again, these ones here was a lot of people movement in the background as distracting. This one he is okay, so we'll leave that and then go down and control click three more. Four more bring up sucks on the monitor is in the in key to bring them up from him? Are they in key it's a good one. And I mean just rejecting the ones using the X key that just don't work. So that guy in the background there, again too distracting.

We'll take those ones out. From view. Keep those select a couple more by Ctrl clicking at the end key again to bring them out. Again distracting background was Wireshark or a few because it just pays to shoot a few more when you've got no control over the situation but you want a nice clear shot and sometimes you might get some nice interaction with the people and like the one was the lady there but these ones here with a clear background as to distracting not so good leads trigger them. So this is an interesting reduction to the prices I work through to compare images when I'm calling them to help me to choose the best ones.

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