photography-workflow

Audits a commercial-photography catalog for entries that require a signed model release. Four-tier classification (HARD-FLAG / SOFT-FLAG / OK / EXEMPT) keyed to identifiability-to-the-general-public, not facial recognition alone. Stricter bar for children (parental release) and workers at workplaces. Mandatory 2048px-long-edge downscale before viewing any image — pixels falsify description-only assumptions every time. Pairs with property-release-review for the rights side of the same catalog. USE WHEN model release review, person release, can I sell this print, identifiable person audit, candid model audit, child in catalog, worker in catalog, portrait release audit. NOT FOR property/architecture/artwork rights (use property-release-review).

Workflow for processing JPEG photos: view each image, generate a descriptive title (5–9 words), 60–90 word description, and 8–12 keywords; reverse-geocode any embedded GPS coordinates via Nominatim to add specific location detail; embed all metadata as IPTC fields using exiftool (without creating backup files); and rename each file to a hyphenated version of its title. USE when the user says things like: "tag these photos", "add metadata to my images", "generate keywords for photos", "embed IPTC data", "rename photos with descriptive names", "process these JPEGs", "add titles and descriptions to my photos", "geolocate my photos", or any request involving generating and embedding photo metadata at scale. Trigger even if only one of these steps is mentioned — the full workflow adds value every time.

Audits a commercial-photography catalog for entries that require property releases, trademark clearance, or copyright analysis on depicted subjects (buildings, interiors, permanent public artwork, branded venues, signage, vehicles). Four-bucket disposition (remove / delist / SOFT-FLAG / OK / EXEMPT). Mandatory 2048px-long-edge downscale before viewing any image. Sibling skill: model-release-review for the persons-in-frame side. USE WHEN property release, image rights, can I sell this print, trademark in catalog, copyright in catalog, freedom-of-panorama question, sculpture in frame, venue in frame, branded building, catalog rights audit. NOT FOR persons / model releases (use model-release-review).

Step 2 of 5 in the photo intake pipeline. Assesses each candidate photo against technical, editorial, and print-readiness criteria before the image moves to legal review. Produces a PASS / CONDITIONAL PASS / FAIL verdict per image. On FAIL, surfaces specific reasons and waits for user instruction — takes no destructive action. Mandatory 2048px downscale before the model views any image, plus a deterministic measurement pass (bundled Pillow/numpy extractor) that grounds the technical and print-readiness verdicts in real metrics. USE WHEN: quality check, quality gate, review photos before publishing, are these good enough, editorial review, technical review, print-ready check, assess photos. NOT FOR: metadata tagging (use /Photo-Metadata-Helper), rights audits (use /property-release-review and /model-release-review), final publishing (use /reviewed-photo-publish).

Step 5 of 5 in the photo intake pipeline. Takes a photo that has cleared metadata, quality, property, and model review and pushes it live — writes the catalog entry, creates the sales-platform product and child prices (one per supported print size), regenerates derived lists (for-sale, gallery, sitemap), moves the file from intake to the published location, and archives the original. Mandatory dry-run before any live sales-platform mutation. Mandatory 2048px-long-edge downscale for any pre-flight visual verification. USE WHEN: publish photo, list this print, push to sales, add to catalog, go live, finalize listing, complete the intake pipeline. NOT FOR: metadata tagging (use photo-metadata-helper), quality gating (use quality-review), rights audits (use property-release-review / model-release-review), or unpublishing a live entry (that's the remediation pipeline in property-release-review).

The fundamental theory and practice of selecting the strongest photographs from a large shoot — for print, wall-art, a portfolio, or client delivery. Use this skill whenever the user wants to "find the best shots", "pick keepers", "cull", "photo review", "review my photos/shoot", "go through my photos", "narrow down a shoot", "choose prints", "select wall-art candidates", or sort through hundreds/thousands of frames, even if they don't say the word "cull". It teaches the core discipline (you can't pick the best of a series until you've seen all of it), how to read photo groups (recognizing HDR / panorama / focus-stack merge sets and incidental shutter bursts vs. true pick-one bursts), judging an image's edited-and-cropped potential rather than its as-shot thumbnail, and the human + dispassionate-eye partnership that guards against sentimental bias — grounded in a concrete Adobe Lightroom (cloud/CC) workflow (Assisted Culling Stack, Photo Merge, safe color labels) but applicable in any tool.