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The work after
work.
The wedding ended an hour ago. The card is in the reader, and four thousand frames are waiting. el momento does the night shift: every frame graded, every burst folded to its best, every client pick returned as one zip of the originals.
300 photos · 1 project · client galleries · no card
the take, as shot1,847 frames · one circled
the problem, precisely
The second shift.
Every wedding is two jobs. The first is the one they see — eight hours on your feet, reading light. The second starts when you get home: deciding, frame by frame, which of six near-identical photographs is the one.
one moment, six frames · which one lives?
You know this part. Seven-A versus seven-C: this one's eyes, that one's focus, a third where the light was half a stop kinder. After the first hundred comparisons the differences stop meaning anything — and there are three thousand to go. Culling is not photography. It is data entry with guilt, and it is the only part of the job that grows every time cameras get faster.
3,812frames on the card
214bursts among them
4–10 hto sort them by eye
The shoot takes a day. The sort takes the night. Nobody invoices for the night.
or — tonight goes differently.
the same night, with el momento
Five steps. None of them are you squinting.
Upload the card as shot.
RAW and JPEG, untouched — never re-encoded, never converted in place. Chunked and resumable: close the lid, and it continues when you are back.
Every frame gets a reading.studio plan
One AI pass per photo: a grade from S to D, a one-line read of what the frame is doing, the objective flags, and a direction for the edit. Judged by the standard of the project — a wedding is not a product shoot.
Bursts fold into one card.studio plan
Same camera, inside two seconds: the frames are graded against each other and shown as one card, the keeper already circled. The rest are a drill-in, not a decision.
The client swipes.
You curate a set and send a link. They need no account — the link is the credential. Right keeps, left skips, from their phone.
The picks come back as one zip.
The kept originals, real filenames, in a single download. That is the end of the round trip.
try it — this is the actual job
Take the cull.
Twelve frames from a wedding that never happened, marked as demo. Open a frame to read its verdict. Six of the twelve are one burst — fold them.
no frame selected
Open a frame. Every verdict is a reading, not a score.
- frame 01 — grade B
- Getting ready — the mirror shot every wedding has. Competent, expected, necessary. edit: lift the shadows under the chin.
- frame 03 — grade B
- The walk in, focus a beat late — it reads soft. Usable if the crop stays wide. flags: soft focus. edit: hold the wide crop; the softness shows at 100%.
- frame 05 — grade A
- The father's hands fixing the boutonnière. A quiet frame with real weight. edit: cool the tungsten cast.
- frame 07A — grade C · burst
- First beat of the laugh — her eyes are mid-blink. No edit fixes a blink. flags: eyes closed.
- frame 07B — grade B · burst
- The laugh arriving, chin still down. Warmer than 07A, not yet open.
- frame 07C — grade S · burst · keeper
- The laugh at full bloom, backlit by the string lights. This is the one they print. edit: trim the empty edge on the left.
- frame 07D — grade B · burst
- The laugh settling. Same light, less spark — the moment peaked one frame earlier.
- frame 07E — grade C · burst
- She turns away and the frame loses the face. The light was right in 07C. flags: face turned.
- frame 07F — grade D · burst
- A shoulder crosses the lens. Nothing here to save. flags: obstruction.
- frame 09 — grade A
- First dance, wide — the room's own lights do the work. edit: straighten; the horizon leans.
- frame 11 — grade S
- The bride's grandmother, alone at the table, watching the dance. Nobody posed this.
- frame 12 — grade D
- Flash misfire — the frame is a wall of white. Let it go. flags: blown exposure.
the vocabulary
Five letters, one decision each.
Every frame gets a grade. The scale is short on purpose — sorting is a decision, not a measurement.
S — the portfolio frame
The one they print, the one you show. A wedding has a handful.
grades are advisory — the final call is always the photographer's · ai grading ships with the studio plan
the burst
Six frames become one card.
Hold the shutter for two seconds and you have six frames of one moment. el momento recognises the burst — same camera, inside two seconds — grades the frames against each other instead of in isolation, and shows you one card with the keeper circled. The other five are a drill-in, not a decision.
the client's side
Their phone. Their picks.
You curate the set and send a link. The client needs no account — the link is the credential. Right keeps, left skips. They see web-sized previews; the originals never leave your side.
the deck is done.
in the product, these picks are already on the photographer's screen — as one zip of the originals.
This demo remembers you — close the tab and come back, and the deck waits where you left it. Exactly as it does for a client on a wedding link.
- no account — the link is the credential
- previews only — originals are never exposed
- a limit of 4 — the fifth keep is refused
- decisions saved against the link
the delivery
One zip. Real filenames.
When the deck is done, you download the kept frames as a single zip of the originals — IMG_2147.CR2, not image(4).jpg. That is the end of the round trip.
- no drive folder
- no wetransfer link
- no screenshots in a group chat
farzana-and-arif_keeps.zip
- IMG_2147.CR2
- IMG_2149.CR2
- IMG_2203.CR2
- IMG_2261.CR2
- … 82 more
86 files · originals, as shot
plans
Priced in taka. Chosen by arithmetic.
The quota counts photos, not gigabytes — but it helps to know what your shoot weighs. Pick a size and a camera.
free0৳
- projects
- 1 project
- photos, whole account
- 300 photos
- client galleries
- yes
- one zip of the picks
- yes
- ai grading
- —
- also
- no card
pro500৳/ mo
- projects
- unlimited projects
- photos, whole account
- 5,000 photos
- client galleries
- yes
- one zip of the picks
- yes
- ai grading
- —
- also
- +1,000 photos for 100৳ / mo, stack as many as you need
studio2,500৳/ mo
- projects
- unlimited projects
- photos, whole account
- 8,000 photos
- client galleries
- yes
- one zip of the picks
- yes
- ai grading
- yes
- also
- ai grading on
| feature | free0৳ | pro500৳/ mo | studio2,500৳/ mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| projects | 1 project | unlimited projects | unlimited projects |
| photos, whole account | 300 photos | 5,000 photos | 8,000 photos |
| client galleries | yes | yes | yes |
| one zip of the picks | yes | yes | yes |
| ai grading | — | — | yes |
| also | no card | +1,000 photos for 100৳ / mo, stack as many as you need | ai grading on |
paid plans are billed manually for now — a human, not a card form · free needs no card
fair questions
Asked by every photographer who got this far.
Will it replace my judgement?
No. The grades are advisory — a fast, consistent first pass, so your eye starts at frame twelve instead of frame one. The final call on every photograph is yours, and nothing is ever deleted on a grade.
What happens to my RAW files?
They are stored exactly as shot — never re-encoded, never converted in place — in a private bucket, served to browsers only through short-lived signed links. The AI reads a rendered preview. Your originals stay untouched.
Can my client download the originals?
No. Clients see web-sized previews in the deck — good enough to judge, useless to print. The originals move exactly once: as one zip, to you.
What if I go over my photo quota?
Nothing is deleted and nothing is lost. The grid simply hides the frames beyond your quota until you upgrade or make room — they come back the moment you do.
Do I have to move my whole workflow here?
No. Use it per shoot: upload the card, send the link, download the zip. el momento does not edit photographs — it sorts them, so it sits next to your editor, not instead of it.
What happens after I send the link?
Your client swipes through the deck on their phone, and you watch the picks arrive. If they stop halfway, the deck remembers. When they are done, you download one zip of the kept originals.
The night is yours.
Shoot the wedding. Have dinner. Sleep. The sort still gets done — just not by the version of you that should be asleep.
a working tool, not your archive — keep your own mastersgrades are advisory; the final call is always yourspaid plans are billed manually — a human, not a card form