Not trying to be snarky but just train your eye and trust your intuition. I shoot events and concerts and can cull 3000 photos down to 100 around 70-90 minutes.
You already know what a good photo looks like. It presents itself in your viewfinder and you immediately take the photo. If it takes me a quarter second to recognize a photo and take it, it shouldn't take me more than 2 seconds to inspect and cull it. I personally would never let AI choose which one of my shots is a keeper or not.
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Don’t take thousands of pictures would be my advice.
2 will do, 3 be trouble, 4 or more forget it. You took them learn to cull them, it's not that hard. I been at it a while and I crunch through 1000 in 20 min or less.
I tried Aftershoot also and didn't end up keeping it. I think the software idea has promise, and I'm sure AI will eventually revolutionize these things, but I did some comparisons using my eye and the software and ended up with very different information (the number of keepers and the recommended images were different).
There is nothing intelligent about "A.I." and letting it make decisions for you is a recipe for disaster.
Sometimes the mistake makes the photo rather than breaks it.
I was hoping this would solve my problem of culling thousands of pictures thst i take for events each week
You already have something better. It is usually located somewhere between the keyboard of your computer and your chair.
So to repeat the advice you've already been given - do your own culling. Not only are you actually intelligent about your selections, but you'll be able to recognize what no "A.I." can - the potential in an otherwise flawed image.
Yea culling is work - it's a grind - but that's why it's called work in the first place.
Narrative Select is pretty good.
FYI Mods - The two leading companies in AI editing and culling have been astroturfing the hell out of /r/WeddingPhotography as well as brigading downvoting comments and reporting comments in bad faith. They also attempted to swarm the sub and garner support to oust the mods. It is absolutely atrocious and persistent behavior that I have addressed with the founders of each of these companies and yet it persists. I would be highly suspect of any threads started on this topic by brand new accounts, which this is.