Most photographers I know run their selects process the same way: deliver a contact sheet PDF or a numbered web gallery, ask the client to email back which numbers they want, then deliver the high-res files of the chosen ones.
It works. It also costs you about two days per shoot in coordination. Here's where the time actually goes.
The hidden cost of numbered email lists.
The client gets the gallery. They open it. They scroll. They see image #34 and like it. They open a new email tab. They write "34, 47, 52, 89, 102, 117, 138, 145, 162, 177, 189, 204."
Now you have to translate that list back into actual files. You open the gallery. You find #34. You confirm it's the one. You add it to the deliverables folder. You repeat 11 more times.
Then someone on the client side replies-all: "actually let's swap 89 for 91." Now you do the math again. "Wait, did Sarah's list include 117 or 119?" You start a thread asking for clarification.
By the time you've reconciled three reviewers' numbered lists into one approved set, you've spent an evening on logistics that had nothing to do with photography.
What changes when selects happen on the gallery itself.
The client opens the gallery in lightbox mode. They scroll through full-resolution previews. For each image, they click one of four buttons: Approve, Reject, Favorite, or Maybe.
You watch the selections happen in real time. You don't need a final email. You don't need to translate numbers into files. The selections ARE the deliverable list.
When they're done, you click "Download approved." kiro zips the high-res files of every Approved and Favorited image and downloads them. The reconciliation step is gone. The numbered list email is gone. You're back to photography.
What EXIF data tells your client.
Lightbox view shows the EXIF for every image: camera body, lens, focal length, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, date taken. Most photographers don't expose this and it costs them.
When a client sees "50mm, f/1.8, ISO 400" next to an image they love, they learn what they liked. The next shoot, they say "more shots like the 50mm ones." That's a brief you can actually deliver to. Without the metadata, they say "more shots like that one" and you guess.
Multiple reviewers, no chaos.
A magazine art director and an editor both review a shoot. They make different selections. With email, you're reconciling two numbered lists. With kiro, both reviewers' selections are visible side by side. You see which images both approved (your shortlist), which only one approved (your discussion list), and which neither approved (your rejects).
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