On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > >> Larry Colen wrote: >>> I did some family portraits yesterday, and am going through and sorting >>> them out. After making a pass to throw out all the ones that aren't >>> perfectly, or even sufficiently in focus I wonder why I could buy a pocket >>> camera, with a dinky embedded processor that'll find people's faces and >>> focus on them, but I don't have something in lightroom to find people's >>> faces and looking at edge sharpness (eyes, hair etc) rate how well focused >>> that they are. >>> While I wouldn't want software to rate the artistic merits of a photo, >>> software that would rate and sort photos by various technical criteria >>> (focus, sharpness, exposure, ...) would save me a lot of time in post >>> processing. Sure, there are pathologic cases where you're deliberately >>> goofing with sharpness or exposure, and there maybe some great photos that >>> have some technical flaw, but which are still great, but for most of what I >>> do, it would be a huge help. >>> -- >>> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> >> Sorry, Larry, but a big part of being a photographer is learning how to edit. > > A big part of being a photographer is knowing how to focus and set the > exposure of your camera, how many pros do you think still shoot everything in > full manual? I'm not looking for something that'll edit everything for me, > I'm looking for something that'll speed up one of the most time consuming > tasks, taking a pass through the photos, pixel peeping to see which ones > really are sharp enough to blow up. > "Sharp" is a judgement call. No photo is perfectly sharp. And what might be acceptably sharp for an action pic might not be acceptably shapt for a static, posed photo. And that's just the beginning. You gotta make your own calls. Software can't do that for you. Paul
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