Thousands of frames down to the ones that tell the story. Culling is the slowest, least creative part of the job. We take it off your plate: our editors work through the full take, keep the strongest frame of each moment, and hand back a clean Lightroom selection.
Every frame is checked for focus, sharpness, expression, blinks and composition. Near-duplicates are collapsed to the best option. You tell us roughly how tight or loose you deliver, and we cull to your ratio.
The result comes back as a Lightroom catalog with your picks flagged — ready for you (or us) to edit. Typical turnaround is about 3 business days.
Duplicate and near-duplicate removal Focus, sharpness and blink checks Expression and composition selection Culled to your delivery ratio Delivered inside a Lightroom catalog Any size of wedding, priced per RAW frame
A wedding photo culling service sorts every RAW frame from a wedding and selects the images worth delivering. An editor removes out-of-focus shots, blinks and near-duplicates, keeps the strongest frame of each moment, and returns your Lightroom catalog with the keepers flagged, ready to edit. Without a system, photographers routinely spend six to ten hours culling a single wedding, squinting at near-identical frames. Handing it off gives you those hours back without changing how you edit.
Send your catalog. Export the wedding as a Lightroom catalog and share it through Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer, the same way you send a gallery for editing. Tell us roughly how many images you usually deliver. Technical pass. Software groups bursts and flags obvious blinks and missed focus, and an editor checks those calls rather than accepting them blindly. Story pass. An editor reads the day in order and keeps the frames that tell it: every key moment, every family combination and the guests who matter. Back in Lightroom. Your catalog returns with keepers flagged and highlight frames star-rated, usually within 2–3 business days. Nothing is deleted.
Focus on the eyes, not just somewhere on the face Blinks and half-blinks, including in group photos Motion blur that is a mistake, as opposed to deliberate movement on exits and the dance floor Bursts and near-duplicates, collapsed to the single strongest frame Expressions caught mid-word, mid-bite or mid-blink Composition problems: cropped hands and feet, guests blocking the view, raised phones Exposure too far gone to recover in editing
A cull is judged as much by what it keeps as by what it removes. Some frames stay even when they are imperfect: The only photo of a guest who matters, such as a grandparent or a friend who flew in Every family formal combination, even when two frames look almost the same Emotional moments that are slightly soft, because a tear in imperfect focus beats a sharp frame with no feeling The details the couple paid for: rings, invitations, flowers and décor At least one strong frame of every key moment, from the processional and vows to the first dance and exit
We cull to your delivery ratio. If you do not have one yet, most wedding photographers keep roughly one frame in every four to six they shoot. Elopement or short coverage: About 1,500: 250–400 Full wedding day, one shooter: About 3,500: 600–900 Two shooters or multi-day: About 6,000: 900–1,300
Doing it yourself: Six to ten hours: You: Small seasons and very personal selections AI culling software: A fast first pass, then your review: Software, then you: Removing technical rejects at volume RawFixer culling service: None; back in 2–3 business days: An editor, with software for the technical pass: Busy seasons and photographers who want the hours back
We charge $0.02 per RAW frame. A typical one-shooter wedding of about 3,500 frames costs $70, and an elopement of 1,500 frames costs $30. There is no monthly fee or minimum order.
Culling a wedding yourself typically takes six to ten hours without a system. Our culling turnaround is 2–3 business days, and none of those hours come out of your week.
Most photographers deliver about one frame for every four to six they shoot, which is roughly 600–900 images from a 3,500-frame wedding. We cull to whatever number you usually deliver.
Software helps with the technical pass by grouping bursts and flagging blinks and missed focus. An editor makes every keep decision and does the story pass, so meaningful moments are not lost because a tool scored them as imperfect.
No. Nothing is deleted. Rejected frames stay in your Lightroom catalog unflagged, so you can review or recover any of them.
Yes. We cull first, then colour-correct the keepers in your style in the same catalog. Culling can be added to any editing collection at the same per-frame rate.
Yes. Galleries are handled under NDA and are never used to train AI models. Our privacy policy explains how client files are stored and handled.