Toronto Photographer – Zdenka Darula – Toronto Glamour Shots – Fashion Female Boudoir

Hi Zdenka! I’m not a real professional photographer yet, just a hobbist, so it may be that my case is somehow simpler. Anyway, I generally and up with a 2-3 hundreds of pictures per session. The first thing I do, after of course removing the obviously bad ones, is taking them in batches of sequential photos having a similar setup/position. For instance, if the first 12 photos have the model standing, that’s my first batch. If the next photo is somehow different (because either the pose changed, or the dress, or the field of view changed, etc.), then that will belong to the next batch. For each batch I count how many pictures there are in it, and I blindly decide how many pictures I want to keep. This is done _a priori_, without necessarily even looking at the pictures at all. I generally end up with a number less then five. Then I start deleting. Deleting is an iterative process, I go through the pictures in the batch several times and every time I delete one or two, until I get down to the number I decided before.
At the end, I usually end up with around 50 pictures per session. I use f-spot (it’s a Linux application, but I bet there are similar programs for Windows and Mac too) to catalogue them: I tag them, and give a rating to the best ones. This way, if one day I’ll need to make my own portfolio, I’ll just have to browse trough the best pictures, and not all of them. If your program doesn’t allow rating, then you could just tag with the word “portfolio” the best ones, or even create tags for rating, such as “5stars”, “4stars”, etc.
But no matter what, a tagging software is a must.

I shoot lots of images to find an image where the model is most feminine, vulnerable, sexy and confident all at the same time..
Hopefully it is the photo that surrounds her in the best natural light available.
Regards
Steven