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Selecting and evaluating the best parade image

Selecting and evaluating the best parade image

From the course: Photo Editing: Choosing Your Best Shots

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Selecting and evaluating the best parade image

- Every time I go out shooting I have great expectations but I know that mostly I'm going to be disappointed. I keep high standards but I know that a five-star image is a rare event. You know, when you come back from a shoot the best images edit themselves but this example that I'm going to show you is a more likely situation, there's no one obvious pick. So kind of like the figure skating judge, I'm not necessarily looking for what's great about something, I'm looking for little faults to help eliminate some photos. But ultimately I don't underestimate my gut instinct, my gut decision, especially when images are really close to each other, which happens a lot because I tend to shoot a lot and I encourage you to shoot a lot too. You want to have a difficult time deciding, it means that generally you've probably got a lot of good stuff there so it's hard to choose that one hero image. So here's how I would edit this particular series. So you can see from this series, and I'm just going…

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