How 400 frames become 40 before the band wakes up the next morning.
The rule is simple: the gallery goes out before the venue has finished cleaning up. Waiting a week makes every frame feel precious, and precious frames are the enemy of a good edit.
First pass is fast and merciless, anything soft or mistimed goes. Second pass is about sequence, not just the best frames but the ones that tell the night in order. By the end, four hundred frames are forty, and the forty are better for the company they keep.