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Same AI model and analysis depth on every plan. Free gets you started. Pro keeps up if you shoot weekly. Premium adds a personal coaching layer.

Here's a sample critique.

An example of what every FinalFrame critique gives you: a score, the single biggest bottleneck to fix, exact editor moves, and a clear signal when to stop.

B

7.3

FinalFrame Score

Worth editing: room to grow

Wildlife · Clean & Natural

Artistic7.4
Technical7.2

Main bottleneck

Tonal Hierarchy

The subject's head reads clearly, but the lower body sinks into similarly dark surroundings. The viewer gets a strong entry point and then nowhere clean to go.

Lightroom fixes: subject

Lift the chest selectively so the bird reads as one coherent subject.

Exposure: +0.20 to +0.40 (brush mask)

Shadows: +15 to +30 (brush mask)

Whites: +5 to +12 (brush mask)

Already in place

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Scored against international salon standards: acceptance and award levels

Free
See if it fits your workflow
$0/month
  • 3 credits: 1 per critique
  • Up to 2 bonus credits, earned once on your first iteration · 5 more for each friend you referYour first-iteration bonus is added to the month you earn it. Referral credits last 12 months. Free credits reset monthly on your signup date and don't carry over.
  • 3 versions per photo
  • All 6 critique lanes
  • Full scoring + sub-scores
  • AI editing suggestions
  • One curation in total, 8 images
  • Gallery + portfolio
  • 90-day critique history
Pro
Recommended
For photographers who shoot regularly
$19/month

About $0.63 a day

Everything in Free, plus:

  • 45 credits: 1 per critiqueAbout 5 photos taken all the way through an edit, or 45 single critiques.
  • Each iteration (a new score plus a comparison with your original) is 2 credits
  • Curations up to 15 images (2 images per credit, 2-credit minimum)
  • Unlimited critique history
  • Which Shot? comparisons (3 credits each)
  • Full progress tracking
Premium
Coaching
Reads your critique history and shows you what to work on next
$36/month

About $1.20 a day

Everything in Pro, plus:

  • AI Coaching Brief: personalized focus areas and missions from your critique historyYour first brief is ready after 10 critiques.
  • See a real Coaching Brief ↓
  • Photographer identity: your genre, strengths, and signature patterns
  • Shooting assignments tied to your bottleneck
  • Editing assignments that target the slider ranges you miss most
  • Pattern analysis
  • Which Shot? comparisons (3 credits each)
  • 90 credits: 1 per critiqueAbout 10 photos taken all the way through an edit, or 90 single critiques.
  • Curations up to 24 images (2 images per credit, 2-credit minimum)

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Premium · Coaching Brief

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Premium adds a Coaching Brief as your critique history builds, a personal read on your photography: the through-line across your work, the one thing to focus on next, and shooting and editing missions to get there. Here's a real one.

This coaching analysis was produced by AI, not a human reviewer.

A rapidly improving macro and wildlife photographer with a strong instinct for subject isolation, color, and cinematic light.

Your former focus-anchor problem has materially receded, but composition is now the craft ceiling holding back otherwise strong ideas. Focus bottlenecks dropped from 13 in the older half to 1 in the recent half, while composition rose from 22 to 30 occurrences and remains present across 41 distinct images; your artistic average of 7.3 still sits above competition at 6.9, reinforcing that execution and framing choices are now the limiting dimension. You have also completed 3 Final Frames after having none at the last brief, so you are beginning to recognize when an image has reached its best version.

A Single Visual Anchor in Macro and Wildlife Frames

Across macro and wildlife, the recurring issue is not a lack of an interesting subject but allowing too many elements to carry equal visual weight. The wasp’s face is diluted by wide framing, the travel bridge leads without a decisive destination, and bright backgrounds, reflections, or secondary animals repeatedly compete with the intended subject. Your subject-separation strength appears 76 times, including 46 in the recent half; use that instinct earlier, at the framing stage, by deciding what must win before you include supporting detail.

Composition appears in 52 critiques across 41 distinct images, including 21 macro and 17 wildlife occurrences.

On your next macro or wildlife shoot, photograph one subject in a deliberately tight, single-anchor composition before making any wider variation.

Frame for One Dominant Read

In your next 5 macro or wildlife shoots, make one deliberate tight-frame version of every promising subject before taking any wider contextual version: the eye, face, or strongest graphic shape must occupy a clearly dominant part of the frame. Composition was named 52 times, and your recent macro wasp score of 7.4 specifically lost impact because the wider composition diluted its face. Before releasing the shutter, use a one-second thumbnail test: identify the single element that would still read first at phone size; if you cannot name it, reframe or change your position.

Crop Until the Subject Wins

For the next 5 selected macro or wildlife files, create two crops before doing tonal or color work: the original framing and a tighter crop that removes the strongest competing edge, background shape, or unused space. Your composition issue increased to 30 recent-half occurrences, while recent critiques repeatedly describe secondary animals, wings, reflections, or bright masses competing with the subject. Compare both crops at thumbnail size and keep only the version where the intended subject wins the first glance; with 3 Final Frames now completed, stop editing once that hierarchy is clear rather than continuing to refine the file.

What's improving

  • Focus: 13 occurrences in the older half fell to 1 in the recent half.
  • Artistic scoring: full-history earlier-half average 7.2 → later-half average 7.5.
  • Competition scoring: full-history earlier-half average 6.8 → later-half average 7.1.

Patterns worth noticing

  • Your strongest recurring visual tools are already concentrated in subject isolation and color: subject-separation strengths rose from 30 to 46 and color-harmony strengths from 33 to 41, even as composition bottlenecks rose from 22 to 30. The issue is choosing and framing the primary subject early enough, not making the subject visually appealing.
  • Macro and wildlife are your main composition pressure points, with 21 and 17 occurrences respectively, while portrait work remains a weaker score lane at 5.6 across 9 critiques. Your most reliable current path is to apply the same immediate, character-led readability seen in the 7.9 donkey portrait to your macro and wildlife framing.

A real Coaching Brief, generated by FinalFrame from our founder's own critique history.

Built for serious photographers

  • Scored against international salon standards: acceptance and award levels
  • 6 editor workflows supported (Lightroom + 5 others)
  • Iteration comparison with measured before/after deltas

Frequently asked questions

How is the FinalFrame Score calculated?

It's a weighted blend of two sub-scores you always see (Artistic Impact and Technical Merit), calibrated to international salon judging (PSA/FIAP exhibitions), not school grades: A- (8.3+) is acceptance level, A (9.0+) is award level. The lane you choose changes the weighting: competition and client lanes lean technical, while mood and social lanes lean artistic. The letter tier (one of seven, from A down to C) reflects where that blend lands. A second read of the same photo can land slightly differently, and the scoring can occasionally miss context a human judge would catch. If a choice was deliberate, weight that note lower, and if you think the score genuinely got something wrong, tell us with the Feedback button so we can keep improving calibration.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT to critique my photo?

FinalFrame uses a specialized vision pipeline calibrated to competition scoring standards, not a generic chatbot. You get a persistent score history, bottleneck tracking across your entire portfolio, iteration comparison (before/after with measured deltas), and a progress page that tracks your scores over time.

Do free and paid plans use the same AI model?

Yes. Every critique uses the same model, same analysis depth, and same scoring calibration. Paid plans give you more volume and deeper tools like Which Shot? and the Coaching Brief, but the quality of each individual critique is identical.

What does each action cost, and what happens when I run out?

A critique is 1 credit. An iteration (re-scoring your edited version against the original, with measured deltas) is 2 credits. A Which Shot? comparison is 3 credits, and a curation is 1 credit per 2 images, with a 2-credit minimum. Re-scoring the same set after you upload improved versions of its photos ("Re-evaluate edits") costs 2 credits; changing which photos are in a set starts a new curation session, priced at the per-image rate above. Uploading new versions of a photo is always free; you only spend credits when you run a review. Your monthly credits reset on your billing date, and unused credits roll over. You carry up to half a month's allowance into the next cycle. Need more before your reset? Pro and Premium subscribers can buy credit packs (20 for $10), and pack credits last 12 months. Free plan credits reset monthly on the day you signed up and don't roll over.

Can I cancel or change my plan anytime?

Yes. You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. Plan changes apply right away, with billing prorated. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period.

What is the Coaching Brief?

A Premium-only feature that synthesizes your entire critique history into a personalized narrative. It identifies your strengths, recurring patterns, and specific areas to work on, then generates targeted shooting and editing missions.

What is Which Shot?

It's a Pro and Premium feature: no monthly cap, 3 credits per comparison. Upload two photos and the AI analyzes them side-by-side. It tells you which is stronger and why, with a detailed breakdown.

Is my data private?

Your photos are never used for model training and never shared publicly without your permission. GPS coordinates are stripped from stored copies and never saved. The camera settings we read, like camera, lens and exposure, stay with your photo and are shown wherever the photo itself is shown: in your public gallery if you publish it, and to anyone who opens a share link you send. Editing-software details we read are stored with the photo and never shown publicly. You can delete your account whenever you want, from your account settings or by emailing us if you can't reach them. A small number of records survive deletion because the law requires it, and our privacy policy lists exactly which.

Read the full guide to how scoring works

All plans include the same AI model and analysis depth. Every critique gets full scoring, visual annotations, and editing suggestions for your preferred editor (6 editors supported). No watermarks, no artificial limitations on quality.

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