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Photo culling · Mac & Windows

Someone has to go through 2,000 frames. It doesn't have to be you.

Vantage makes the first pass through a shoot. It scores every frame, collapses the bursts down to the one that worked, and hands you a shortlist to review. Cars, weddings, property, events, portraits.

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Jaguar XJS, shot for a dealer listing
Reads the files you already shoot
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See it work

Watch it work on a real shoot.

These are frames from one of my own jobs, scored and grouped exactly the way the app does it.

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Ready— keepers
By the numbers

Where your evening goes.

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To sort a 500-frame shoot on a laptop, folder to finished keepers.
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How often it agrees with a working photographer's own keep and cut calls on shoots it had never seen.
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Frames it gets through in roughly twenty minutes, at about half a second each.
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Files uploaded when you run it locally. Your originals stay where they are.
What it does

What it does with a folder of RAWs.

It isn't a blur filter. It looks at framing, sharpness on the subject itself, which frames repeat, and what each shot is actually of, then splits the shoot into keep, review and cut.

01 / The Vantage Score

Every frame gets a score.

It learned on real shoots that were graded frame by frame, so it reads composition, light, angle and whether the subject is actually sharp. Keep, review and cut is where you start, not where you finish.

  • A slider sets how hard it cuts
  • Every verdict says why it was given
KEEP
88
REVIEW
52
CUT
19
02 / Grouping

Bursts come down to one frame.

It works out what the shot is (front three-quarter, low rear, interior detail, kitchen, twilight exterior) and groups the near-identical ones, so you choose from each angle once instead of scrolling through forty versions.

  • The sharpest frame in each burst comes to the top
  • Set how many you want from each angle
1 hero · 49 tucked away
03 / Plain-English search

Type what you are looking for.

"Low front three-quarter with the sun behind." "Kitchen with the island in frame." No keywording to do first and no folder names to remember.

  • Understands shot type, angle, light and subject
  • Searches the whole shoot at once
04 / Grade & retouch

Your grade across the whole set.

Put the look you already use on every keeper in one pass: exposure, colour, straightening, and plate or face blurring for listings. Drag the divider to see it.

  • Applied to the set, adjustable photo by photo
  • Number plates and faces blurred on export
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BEFOREGRADED
05 / Client delivery

A gallery link for the client.

Put the keepers in a private gallery the client can look through and download from, full size or web size, with a password and an expiry date.

  • A link instead of a zip file in an email
  • Full size or web size, password and expiry built in
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06 / Straight into your workflow

Out to wherever you work.

Send the keepers out as files in a folder, as Lightroom XMP sidecars or a catalog write, or as a listing set with the hero first, resized and watermarked.

  • Lightroom XMP and catalog, listing sets, client galleries
  • Runs on your own machine, or on a cloud GPU per shoot
▢ Export originals to a folder
◇ Lightroom XMP & catalog write
▤ Listing-ready set — hero-first, watermarked
☁ Private client gallery
Kinds of shoot

It knows what each job needs.

You tell it what kind of shoot you are on and that changes what counts as a keeper. A wedding and a dealership walkaround are not judged by the same rules.

🚗

Cars

Dealership work, classics, detailing. It knows the walkaround, the low three-quarter, the interior details and the engine bay, and it blurs plates on the way out.

WalkaroundLow 3/4Engine bayPlate blur
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Motorsport and events

Track days, race meetings, parties and live music. It finds the panning shots that actually came out sharp, which is most of the work on a day like that.

PanningGridCrowdDetails
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Property

Estate agency, new build and interiors. It tells rooms apart, straightens the verticals and puts the set in listing order with the exterior first.

RoomsVerticalsTwilightListing order
💍

Weddings

Prep, ceremony, speeches, first dance. It keeps the frame where the eyes are open and the faces are sharp, and throws away the four either side of it.

CeremonyCandidsFirst danceGroup shots
👤

Portraits, family and newborn

Headshots, family sessions and brand work. One frame per look, picked for sharpness and open eyes rather than for being first in the run.

HeadshotsFamiliesNewbornEyes open
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Everything else

Point it at a hard drive of family photos, holidays and screenshots and it will sort those too, into people, places, moments and things, by the day they were taken.

PeoplePlacesMomentsSorted by day
The process

How it works.

1

Point it at the folder

RAW or JPEG, any camera. If you shoot RAW and JPEG together it ignores the JPEG twins.

2

Watch it go

Frames are scored and grouped as they are read, so you can see what it is doing rather than stare at a bar.

3

Set how many you want

Move the slider until the number is right, cap how many you get per angle, search in plain English.

4

Grade and send

Put your look on the keepers, then export to a folder, into Lightroom, or as a gallery link.

The difference

What actually changes.

Doing it by hand
  • Clicking through forty versions of the same frame
  • An evening gone after one big job
  • A different standard at frame 1,800 than at frame 200
  • Blurring every number plate yourself
  • Zipping files up to email them over
Doing it in Vantage
  • One frame out of each burst, chosen for you
  • A big shoot sorted while you unload the car
  • The same standard at the end as at the start
  • Plates and faces blurred on the way out
  • A gallery link you can send straight to the client
Pricing

What it costs.

Every feature is in the one plan. The only thing you might ever add is storage, and that is only if you use cloud backup or send big galleries.

EVERYTHING INCLUDED
THE PLANBILLED MONTHLY
£15.99 / month

No per-shoot fees. No cloud-processing add-on. Cancel anytime.

  • Unlimited shoots — RAW & JPEG
  • Local and cloud processing
  • One hero per burst, automatically
  • Grade, retouch & auto plate/face blur
  • Lightroom XMP & catalog export
  • Natural-language search
  • Client delivery galleries
  • 2.5 GB cloud storage included
ADD STORAGE

Only if you need it.

For full-resolution backups & bigger client galleries. Add or change anytime from your account.

FreeIncluded with every plan
2.5 GB
+250 GBHundreds of full shoots
£3.99
+1 TBA working archive of originals
£9.99
+2 TBStudio-scale delivery & backup
£17.99

Change or cancel anytime from your account.

Questions

Things people ask.

Is my data safe in cloud mode?

Your originals are uploaded only for the duration of processing, then actively deleted the moment your results are ready — not kept, not used to train anything, not shared. Local mode never uploads a single file.

What cameras and file types work?

Any RAW your camera shoots — CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, RW2, DNG and more — alongside standard JPEG and TIFF. No conversion step first.

Does it replace my judgement?

No. It makes the first pass and you make the decisions. You set how hard it cuts, you look through the groups, and it never deletes anything: exports are copies and your originals are left alone.

How is it different from Aftershoot or Narrative?

Two things. It is told what kind of shoot it is looking at, so a dealership walkaround and a wedding are judged by different rules. And it carries on past the cull: grading, plate blurring, Lightroom sidecars and the client gallery are all in the same app.

Do I need a powerful computer?

No. It runs comfortably on a modern Mac or PC in local mode, and when you'd rather not tie up your machine you can process any shoot on a cloud GPU instead — same subscription, no add-on.

Is it finished?

No, and I would rather say so. Vantage is in early access. The culling, grouping, grading and delivery all work and I use it on my own paid jobs, but you will find rough edges, and it is better on cars and property than it is on weddings, because that is what most of its training came from. If something is wrong, tell me and it gets fixed.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Cancel, upgrade, downgrade and find old invoices on your account page. Monthly billing, nothing to tie you in.

Try it on your next shoot.

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