As a family photographer, I have amassed a large collection of 100,000+ and it’s getting harder and harder to maintain backups and feels like I’m hitting scale limits within Lightroom. I’m certain that 20%+ of my photos could be deleted and never missed. Short of going through them 1 by 1, there has to be an app that can help me find all the crap : blurry, eyes closed, poor exposure, etc.

Any ideas?

  • qcinc@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I tried Aftershoot for a bit when I was doing family shoots earlier this year. I didn’t stick with it but I found it useful for detecting closed eyes, missing focus etc. Not sure how well it would work with an existing Lightroom library but it has a free trial

    • JustARandomUserHere@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I tried them in their early days and it was promising but still lacking. I should look into them again and see how it’s progressed. It’s also, if I recall more geared to formal photo shoots where you have a lot of images of the same thing and you need to pick the best. As opposed to “here’s 500 photos from my vacation, which ones are good?”

      • qcinc@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yeah I found the grouping was useful but I also used it a lot at the time for very quickly eliminating obvious flaws. Agree that it can’t help as much with overall quality choices, and it was a slightly awkward fit for my workflow.