How To Select The 'Best' Image From a Sequence - With Snowy Moose! - Wildlife Photography In Wyoming 

Not only are you a great photographer, you are a gifted teacher. Thanks for all you do on RU-vid to teach and inspire.

This is outstanding. You do not tell people how to edit, However you show us how to use our own thoughts and visual minds to create what we see. Thank you for that. For we are not Robots. Very well done video. Take a bow.

I always enjoy how other photographers finish their images in post. Very informative. Thank you for sharing.

Absolutely do more of these! Love hearing your thoughts and understanding your decision making process.

Yes please do more videos like this. I enjoy seeing and learning from other photographers.

I would take the image from 13:15 and take the back moose and cut him out and move him over to the left with the little piece of grass in front of him. A little fill in on the right antler.....and you could never tell the difference. I know most folks say it's wrong....but I am with Ansel Adams philosophy.....“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” and “A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.” 😉 As always Steve love your work 👍

Very insightful. It's often the little details that can make or break an image.

I was just impressed by that many bulls in one place.

Really enjoyed this video it’s good to get an insight of how a pro photographer thinks about how to pick the perfect shot would enjoy more of the same. Cheers

Great photos, Steve, and thanks for sharing your process in choosing the right photos. Keep up the good work.

Life is good when 95% of your shots are perfectly sharp! More often that not it's just the inverse for me. Haha! It's not easy to have a subject free of any distractions in a shot. Often times you don't even notice it when you are out there. I like a clean shot, too, but sometimes having vegetation or something else in the way helps with the overall dynamic and story. For me it can be a long process picking the best one, but it's fun. Please do more of these kinds of videos, on editing as well.

Have a nice trip, we will wait!...

Thanks! Steve Enjoy your trip!

Love the video as many others have commented, keep ‘em coming! At the onset you selected to shoot at 2.8 yet you have a large subject. Explain why not shoot at say 5.6 just to allow more sharpness over a wider area while still allowing for the edges to fade away into some mild blur? Remember, you asked for feedback and you can see many of us have questions as well, lol!! That’s what happens when you get photographers together talking about photography! Gotta love it...

I hit like before you started. Great topic and often a puzzle.

For sure would love to see more of this type of video. This is very helpful Steve!!!

I’m so jealous

I personally really enjoyed this video, gives me lots to think about.

Enjoyed watching you go though these images and the critical eye to detail that I sometimes miss in my haste to get something done.

I enjoyed this as it was nice to see something different.

Always fun to watch. Have fun in Africa

This is an excellent video. I really like hearing thought process, both editing and in the field.

Thanks for sharing your thought process with us, I found it very interesting and informative. Yes, I would like to see more videos like this.

Really great video! More of that is welcome!

Helpful and informative, Steve. Thanks!

Like the thought process

Awesome photo sequence. I hope that you don't ever take it for granted....as it is an exceptional and unique environment to have at your doorstep.

Super video. Great to have an insight to your selection process

Steve, enjoyed the video. I'd suggest tossing some of these in now and again.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It does help me a lot!

I found that interesting. I would love to see a similar video with bird photos.

Fine video, interesting to hear from your selecting flow... Kind regards, Rolf

Loved the video. Very helpful. Thanks

Great video...It is nice to know that you pick your best very similar to me. Keep 'em coming', Steve!

Beautiful imagery - now subscribed. Really appreciated your thought process as well - very informative.

Thanks for posting this Steve. I hope that you will do a few more videos along these lines. I hope that you'll get an opportunity to do a video on your Yellowstone and upcoming Africa trips!

Thanks Steve, this insight is really helpful. I think I can apply some of your thought process to my own work. Love to see another after your Africa adventure. Cheers!

Great vid, loved the thought process, thank you.

Another informative, enjoyable video. Thanks Steve! A few times you zoomed in 1:1 and I thought even that would make a cool horizontal photo. Just fill the frame wide with an intense close up eyes and antlers photo.

Very interesting and helpful, thanks

Love this! Very helpful !

Great tips. Thanks.

Nice video Steve and great photos as usual!

Thanks Steve, interesting that I would have done the same selection and adjustments as you did. :-)

Love this!

Very useful. My biggest failing is I keep to many. Thanks

Yes! I really like to watch and hear your thought process and the things you see that makes (in your mind) select one image as a bit better over the other.

Loved it. Helpful as usual 😊

This is very interesting, keep doing this thought process videos!

I would love to see a video on what you take to Africa. Specifically what lens, bag and thought process with weight restrictions.

I really apprreciate your selection process.1

I'm quite new to your channel Steve and really enjoying every vlog. This video was right up my street as I do struggle with selecting the keepers. Thanks 👍

Yes, very good and helpful, Steve! You're thought processes were almost my thoughts exactly as I was looking at your images. Like you said, you get better and faster at it the more you do it. As a bird photographer, I'm used to going through hundreds and thousands of images after a day's shoot :)

One of my favorite parts of the workshop we did was the photo analysis time we had in your vehicle. This is like a continuation of that and I love it. Would love more of these Steve!

Really enjoyed that, great video

Love getting your critiques of your photos. Great learning for me. Please do more of this, Steve.

Thank you so much

Great video Steve !!

I really LOVE this session you have shared. We wildlife painters/sculptors go through the same exact selection process when we go through our photos in deciding what to put onto our canvases or into wax or clay.

Do more, thank you.

YES - MORE PLZ . Love this stuff !!! AMAZING SHOTS , I’m envious!!!!!❤️❤️

Great video. And yes, more like this. Thanks for sharing your thinking process and how the pros do it. Very helpful

Thanks for sharing, I found this video to be very helpful as selecting the best photo in a sequence is something that I often struggle with. I will now keep your thought process in mind. Loved the format.

Seeing your selection process was great! It's definitely helpful and I'd be happy to watch more examples. Have a fantastic trip!

Thoroughly enjoyed hearing your thoughts and process. Would love similar videos of other situations , gain a better understanding of a pro’s process of what makes a”good” photo. Question - after you make your selections do you save some, none, or all of the others? When do you delete a photo?

great Steve as usual. with your experience its nice to see what you are thinking ,i have been photographing for 15 years and still learning .yes more of these videos would always be great ..

I enjoyed seeing your thought-process. There are some good guidelines to follow when framing, cropping, composing, etc. and I'd love to learn more of them.

A nice video. I like these kinds of videos where you let us get inside your head a bit. Anything that gives us amateurs insight into how a pro works is good. That includes how you work a scene out in the field, a post-shoot review and discussion of the images, and a discussion of what worked and what didn’t. Thanks for sharing!

I did enjoy watching your selection process. Yes, please make more instructional videos like this one. I wish you great success in Africa and look forward to watching more on your channel. Cheers

Thanks. Good to see how you work through a series of photos to select the "best" ones. I am trying to get better at it so hearing the thought process out loud (how else would I hear it - duh) will be helpful for me. Travel safe.

Very nice video! I like how you make those quick decisions and purge the photos that won't meet your expectations. Keep up the great videos and photos.

More of this type of video would be appreciated. Your commentary works as a reminder of things to do/not do. While reviewing some photos I found a few 3 legged animals in my images. So easy to "mess up" while in the heat of the moment.

I love the video sequence you opened with, I could hear in my mind my mother saying you all quit that rough housing before somebody gets poked in the eye! I pretty much followed with your photo picks except for the final choice. Mine would have been one of the boss moose by himself. He's to regal to share the spotlight. Have a great trip to Africa and make sure you come back healthy.

Thoroughly enjoyed the video. It’s always interesting to hear someone else’s thought process of narrowing down to one from a group of really good images!

Wonderful video, Steve! I love how you talk through your thought process, it's so helpful to get a view into how other photographers review their images. Very useful video and absolutely gorgeous Moose!

Really enjoy videos like this. I feel It help to see how others go about the final possess after the shot is taken. You should do more videos on editing they are always helpful.Thanks

I hope you do more like this, just so helpful to hear your thought process!

I think also one with a much tighter crop on the eyes and part of the base of the horn would look nice with all the snow, etc. And it doesn't have to be from the same / what you considered as the best pick.

This video was really helpful and interesting to see and hear how you determine which captures to use. Yes I would like to see more of these videos. Thank you for sharing, it's much appreciated to get a view of different pointers to look for out of a sequence.

Really like this video Steve. It's always great to hear what other photographers are seeing/thinking in post as well as in the field. Would like to see this more often.

Hey, spot on! My thoughts are the same. That's great news for me, cause your work is great! Yes, more of this would be wonderful, please!

Great video as always! So many good photos can make it difficult to choose the best one

I really liked your perspective of what you look for and how you choose. I have a hard time seeing the composition when I’m taking the photo until I get it home and see it on the computer. I also don’t take enough of photos to have a really nice group of photos to choose from. For some reason my thinking is I’m still shooting film instead of digital. Lol I have to keep reminding myself!

Love this video. Please do more like this.

I found this really interesting too, and would love to watch you go through a sequence of Great Gray Owl photos like this sometime.

Thanks Steve, another intuitive video from you, still waiting on z9. Keep up the great work.

Really love this style of video and would be awesome to see more like it! The process behind the computer is very interesting to me and helpful to watch!

Nice Moose! If I get stuck trying to pick out images I just ask my seven year old to choose! He is funny, and will explain what he likes about the one and why it is better than the other all in a fake British accent. He often watches your videos and a few other photographers with me. That and his eyes are a bit sharper than mine. Have great time in Africa!

Steve this was great insight into your selection process. Would love to see more of these.

More videos on post processing would be appreciated!

Great video. Very helpful to see your thoughts on images and compare to my own. Would enjoy to see more like this. And as always, awesome photos!

I agree with your assessment and would have picked the same image; it’s first-rate. The video in the beginning was also very good. By all means, please continue with videos like this; they are very enjoyable! Cheers!

I agree that it's a very subjective process, and was immediately drawn to the first horizontal shot of the two bulls. I think the composition leads viewers diagonally through the beautiful scenery better than the others and shows all the character of the big bull very well. To me it's the most "wild" or natural looking overall depiction of them. I agree with the separation of the antlers, but since it's there in all the frames, that's not the clincher for me. Looks like it could still be cropped square, but love it full frame.

Great info Steve. I do the same thing as a hobby photographer. Love these videos also.

@stevemattheis, Great tutorial, thank you. Would you mind sharing where you too the photos (I would love to get some of Hobart).

Hi Steve. Really great video. In our camera club we try to get newer members to critique their own images and this reinforces and highlights how attention to data can make a difference. Have shared with several friends. Would be interesting to run a video on birds particularly subtle variations in wing positions.

Post-processing videos are enjoyable and instructive. You ended up with an outstanding photo. What equipment are you taking on your trip to Africa?

I enjoyed the video and your reasoning behind the various crops. I think I have a tendency to crop too tightly for some tastes but I guess that's what makes moose racing:) The only thing I would change in all these images is all that snow. I don't know how you deal with shooting in such cold conditions but, perhaps, that's a video for another time. Have fun thawing out in Africa. I look forward to seeing your images from that trip.

Love this. My keeper rate is about 5% right now so this hasn’t been a issue yet. Lol. But I hope to have to work through this issue some day. Would love more like this.

Hi Steve, I hope to meet you some day at one of your workshops. Thanks for making this vlog, it was helpful/ enlightening. I myself second-guess my editing decisions sometimes within sequences of similar images of fauna and issues such as leg positioning and potential cropping so thanks, this helps. Maybe you could do some more vlogs that follow your post-production editing thought-process, or sell a cd about it so something similar?