A Faster Culling Method: Start With the Best, Skip the Rest

Most photographers cull wrong. They open a folder of 800 frames and start nuking the bad ones, which means you spend the first hour of your edit staring at garbage. This piece argues the opposite: scan for your best shots first, build your selects from the top down, and let the rejects sort themselves out by absence. It's a small mental shift with a real impact on how fast you clear a job and get to actual editing. Worth reading before your next multi-day shoot drops a thousand files on your desk.