{"id":112777,"date":"2018-09-05T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=112777"},"modified":"2018-09-05T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:46:29","slug":"help-me-im-drowning-in-a-sea-of-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/help-me-im-drowning-in-a-sea-of-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me, I’m Drowning in a Sea of Pictures!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest problem in photography now: we have TOO MANY<\/em> photos to look through. We are overwhelmed with our pictures, and we have no idea which of our photos are the best — and we’re uncertain which photos we should share\/publish.<\/p>\n

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Shooting more pictures is good — but how do we choose our best pictures?<\/h2>\n
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First of all, I think it is GOOD that we are shooting lots of pictures nowadays. Why?<\/p>\n

\n To me, the more we shoot, the more we appreciate being alive!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My biggest inspiration in photography is my mom. She takes photos of literally everything. And thank God for Google Photos; all her photos are sync’d in the cloud, and she doesn’t ever need to worry about running out of space.<\/p>\n

Anyways, photography is great because it helps us express gratitude<\/em> for being alive. For me, a camera is like having another appendage– it helps us better SEE<\/em> more beauty and joy around ourselves.<\/p>\n

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But this is the tricky thing — how can we keep shooting a lot of photos, but not feel overwhelmed with all the photos we must look through afterwards?<\/p>\n

Test out ARSBETA.COM ><\/a><\/p>\n

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Finding a needle in a haystack<\/h2>\n
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For example, my mom will go backpacking through Europe for a month– and literally take around 10,000 pictures on her phone. Now this is the problem:<\/p>\n

\n Ain’t nobody got time to look through 10,000 pictures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Google Photos has done a great job of adding the ‘star’ function, to better filter our photos. But still — we have TOO many photos to look through!<\/p>\n

So what is the solution?<\/p>\n

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ARS BETA<\/h2>\n

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ARSBETA.COM<\/a> is my startup to solve this problem. To start, it simplifies the process of image-editing (image-selection) to the simple binary:<\/p>\n

\n Keep or ditch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But this is the problem: most of us don’t know which photos to keep or ditch.<\/p>\n

This is why ARSBETA.COM<\/a> is great — you can upload your photos to the platform and get real feedback from other photographers, whether you should ‘keep’ or ‘ditch’ the photo.<\/p>\n

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But still the problem with ARS is this:<\/p>\n

\n You still must trudge through thousands of photos, to decide which<\/em> few photos to share.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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ARS BETA VERSION III<\/h2>\n

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Skipping ahead, I hope that one day we can integrate AI (artificial intelligence) to ARS BETA (perhaps a version 3).<\/p>\n

Currently my friend Kevin (CTO for ARS) is building our a critique function for ARS. It should be available in about a month.<\/p>\n

But looking ahead– I want us to figure out how we can integrate AI to help us cull down our thousands of photos.<\/p>\n

Imagine if you had an app on your phone or laptop that you can feed a bunch of photos (let’s say 10,000 pictures). Then you can adjust how many photos it will give back to you.<\/p>\n

For example, let’s say I went to Saigon for a month, and took 10,000 photos. I could then put my photos in ARS BETA and the AI will automatically tell me:<\/p>\n

\n ERIC, I think these are your best 5 photos from your entire trip.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the additional function would be this: you can adjust how many photos ARS will give you back.<\/p>\n

For example, let’s say you feed it 10,000 photos — you can have it choose what the AI thinks is your best 1 photo, best 5 photos, or perhaps best 100 photos.<\/p>\n

I obviously have no idea how to do this (yet), but it is something I am still brain-storming.<\/p>\n

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Practical tips (for now):<\/h2>\n

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  1. Study contact sheets from the masters of the past<\/a>, to better understand how other<\/em> great artists chose their best pictures. MAGNUM CONTACT SHEETS<\/a> is a great book, or you can look at my own contact sheets<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Curating your photos means keeping the photos you ‘care<\/a>‘ about. Which photos do you really care for?<\/li>\n
  3. When in doubt, throw it out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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