More On Birds

First of all birds – especially Canada Geese and ducks in Oakville (Ontario) habour – disappear when the temperature hits -8 degrees C and no wind as it was today (Sat. Feb 8/25).

But on Thursday morning there were thousands of birds both on the water and flying above the dozen or so bird photographers from the Oakville Camera Club.

Thousands of birds in the air and most of us with big lenses and cameras capable of shooting 15 to 50 frames a second results in thousands of images on the SD card.

Then we get home and download the images and open up our RAW editors and start the culling process of 2,000 images.

After about an hour or so the culling process has devolved into a survival situation. I’m so overwhelmed with images to pick from that I start jumping around from group to group. It gets really easy to miss a great shot in the middle of a bunch of okish images.

So I’m looking a photo culling software and there’s a ton of selections. Free is good but the more expensive stuff has a lot more features.

It comes down to how many features do I need?

Worse artifical intelligence is being introduced into some culling and editing software. It works like this: download let’s say 5,000 images from a wedding shoot and then ask the AI to separate all out of focus images to a separate folder. Same thing for all poorly exposed images.

From what’s left you might want to ask AI to select all images shot outside or all images of the bride or all images of groups.

This is amazing stuff…..and expensive too LOL.