The Google blog announced that Google Photos will now allow you to share whole albums or just the photos of particular people with someone else.
I tried it this morning and it works, but there’s one big stumbling block. Too many photos.
When I take photos I’ll take 2 or 3 photos of the same scene sometimes, or if there are people in the photo I’ll take photo a few times just so everyone is looking at the camera. Or if kids are involved they’ll be looking every which way except at the camera.
So, what should really be one representative photo it’s really five or six images.
No. Using machine learning and image recognition is a huge step, but what a lot of non photographers want is a curated collection of “the best” photos.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before Google learns how to select from near identical photos to create this “best of” album. Their daily albums are a good indication that they can do this already.
The other problem with machine learning is that it might try too hard. This morning it suggested i share street photos I took a few weeks back. Unfortunately one of the suggested people was a former colleague who lives in Colorado and was not in Cork on the day. Another suggestion was my niece who also was not roaming the streets!
Anyway, I love Google Photos. The image recognition is amazing. I’ll search that for an image I need before diving into Lightroom 5 to edit it. 🙂