Field Notes
Short reads from building Cull Me uP — on culling, attention, and keeping photographs connected to what they mean. Written for working photographers.
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Small notes, one idea at a time.
No content calendar, no SEO filler. Just the thinking behind the tool, in pieces you can read in a coffee break.
We did not become photographers to organize files. Everything here circles back to that.
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June 2026 · 3 min
The fall of the image into the file
Noise is not too much data — it is data that has lost its reference. On the slow descent from information to noise.
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June 2026 · 3 min
Your editor was never the problem
Lightroom, Capture One and DxO are excellent. The friction lives in the gaps between the card and the catalog.
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June 2026 · 2 min
The fresh-eye method
Cull while the shoot is still warm in your eye, not weeks later at the desk — faster decisions, and truer ones.
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June 2026 · 2 min
Trust is architecture, not marketing
You should be able to delete CMP tomorrow and lose nothing. Why portable XMP and no lock-in are a design decision.
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Notes are cheap. The first pass is where it counts.
Read the thinking, then try the gesture on your next folder.