Xerox Developed a Program That Can Tell You if Your Photo Sucks

Interesting nonetheless. I wonder what will happen if we ran the photos off this forum into the program haha!

http://gizmodo.com …-your-photos-suck-or-rule

Now if we can just incorporate this software into our cameras, we will never take another bad photo....just make adjustments until the "awesome photo light" comes on and depress the shutter

If you look at their good/bad sample you can see they have a selective color image in the "good" side. So apparently their program is flawed... at least according to all the "selective color is the root of all evil" proponents here.

I can see quite a few bad images on the "good" side and quite a few good images on the "bad" side, so it doesn't work, and thats quite normal. Photography isn't about "rules", which is basically all their program can understand.

jra wrote in post #13440537
Now if we can just incorporate this software into our cameras, we will never take another bad photo....just make adjustments until the "awesome photo light" comes on and depress the shutter

Incorporate it into a camera programed to do its own adjustments, give the camera to an Asimo for portability, and get rid of all the photographers.

I can normally tell whether my photo sucks

Heh! I could run y photos through it, but I'm not quite that ready to give up the hobby!

400dabuser wrote in post #13441955
I can normally tell whether my photo sucks

Me too. If it came from my camera, it probably sucks.

Looks like the program prefers contrasty, saturated, sharp images with good color mix. Maybe that's the secret recipe for 'pop'.

im interested in Xerox letting us play with that program, just want to see what the machine thinks of my photos hehe.

My rule about photo quality is simple: if they sell, they're good; if they don't, they're not.

20droger wrote in post #13445060
My rule about photo quality is simple: if they sell, they're good; if they don't, they're not.

Unless you're a street photographer.

Razeus wrote in post #13445249
Unle your a street photographer.

So, you're saying street photographers only sell crappy photos?

jra wrote in post #13440537
Now if we can just incorporate this software into our cameras, we will never take another bad photo....just make adjustments until the "awesome photo light" comes on and depress the shutter

Doesn't Ken Rockwell already have that?
-Bruce

Ballen Photo wrote in post #13445831
Doesn't Ken Rockwell already have that?
-Bruce

Yep! It's been incorporated into his brain. All his photos are automatically perfect, no thinking required.

Just ask him.