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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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What's the fastest way to rank/organize a LOT of photos? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by 223specialist@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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My partner works in an industry where part of her job is taking wildlife photos for customers, 1-2K shots per trip get curated down to 100-200 and sold to the customer for a small fee, sometimes free. She has rights to the photos and She has every one of the curated photos she's taken over the last 6+ years on a hard drive.

All 209,000 of them.

I realize this is going to be a pain in the ass but I'm wondering what system there would be for ranking them to make them easier to find the good stuff later on. Like being able to rank 1-5 stars and searching later on for only 5 star photos, whatever. (This is a feature in windows metadata, but it seems clunky as I currently know how to change it, open to suggestions)

She wont have to go though all of them and can do some grouping based on thumbnails.

Wondering if anyone has a creative solutions

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[–] Junin-Toiro@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Don't do it. Hear me out.

Rating that many images is not going to be enjoyable. Even with the nice tools kindly suggested here. If it was not done in the last 6 years it is not urgent.

Instead, wait a bit more for AI to catch up. In a few years there will be tools to do just that. I guess they will cull 2/3 of the load out of the box, and you will guide it a bit over a few dozen images so it gets you the top 10%. Do that last part yourself, image by image.