How to Cull Photos Like a Pro!

Pangolin Photo Host William Steel is going to show you his step-by-step process on how to cull photos that you have taken in a sequence! Using Adobe Lightroom, he will show his 7-step process, demonstrating how he went from 500 images down to the best one!

Timestamps:
00:01 Intro: How to Cull Photos Like a Pro
01:18 Importing a sequence to Lightroom
02:00 Rejecting the first images
02:55 Refining your selection
03:32 Colour rating your images
04:27 Using the Lightroom star rating
05:03 Doing some quick edits
05:41 Adjusting the star rating
06:07 Selecting the best Image

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[PangolinWildlife]

Apologies for the dodgy next video will be much better! Hope it didn't distract too much.

[boatman]

Easily the best video I have ever watched on rating images! Plus the images themselves were superb. I can't tell you how many times while watching many instructional videos I find myself unimpressed with the basic image quality…nice to encounter a "how to" video with images worth editing.

[kathleeneveritt]

Great video, yes you chose the best image, absolutely stunning,

[mikecardan]

Excellent video. Looking forward for the next video.

[phillipscrimshaw]

Look who finally made it to the YouTube channel! Now time to make some content about wild dogs!

[ulrichtutsch]

Thanks for sharing your way to cull yor photo takes to one outstanding image incorporating "Wild Africa". AWESOME!!!

[dominikzimbuli]

Nice Video Wil. I am still working my way through the images from last Year 😅
When going through and pick or reject, I found that pressing the shift key and P or X at the same time will set the flag and switch automatcally to the next image.
Helped me to speed up my process.

Thanks for the great video and was nice "seeing" You again.

Cheers from Switzerland
Dominik

[vanessaquinn]

Hi thank you for the tutorial. I also loved the photo with the two lions standing with the sunlight on them.

[AliasJimWirth]

I have a question: How do you deal with the fact that on any given day you might be in a mood that likes this or that photo for whatever reasons, but on another day in a different mood, you would pick different images for whatever reasons? Does this make sense to you? I hope so. Thanks for posting this video in any case. Cheers.

[Mike-]

That was my favorite image too. Great info.

[gavinduffy]

Great practical method William,
Thanks for sharing,
Gavin

[mondujar]

I like the process and what a fabulous end image. Love the eye contact. Look forward to your next videos

[chadpeterson]

Would recommend using Fast RAW Viewer for this step, even on my newer MB Pro, LR is just too laggy to cull quickly.

[sadmanonatraintoo]

Defiantly agree on image choice, and thank you for share your workflow, gives me good guidance when going through my images

[tordandreasson]

I use a similar workflow but prefer to use the rating (1-5 stars) rather than colors, which I use for other purposes. And I also set the filter to only show non-flagged and non-rejected photos. This way, rejected (and flagged) photos will automatically disappear from the strip, no need to click right/left arrows.

[pedroferreiradoamaral]

I agree with your choice and, above all, super useful to see your selection and rejection process. Just the other day I talked about this with a friend.

[acardena]

Great video! This more refined and easier to use than my current workflow and will make going through my next group of 3-4, 000 photos quicker to go through.

[EdwardKilner]

One of my Project Management clients wanted a colour coded “Wall of Bricks” spreadsheet to show notable tasks from week to week. Sky Blue was the best, Black was the pits. Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, Red, Black was my ordered set. You are free to copy or choose your own, depending on what’s available in your program. Oh, White or Clear was the No Information colour.

[yeuhuanlai]

I follow a broadly similar process. Keeping Caps Lock on while you rate will move the selection forward as you press X or P (it's P for pick). If previews have been built, this can happen very quickly. After I have done my picks, often I need to compare the images for critical sharpness, and the Comparison Tool in the Library module is invaluable for that.

[FlyFishFairwx]

excellent and yes the best image was picked .. Thank you..