Anyone using Lightroom Analytics?

[carguy]

Just saw this today:
Lightroom Plugin Analyzes Your Metadata, Offers Insights on Your Shooting Style

You may be stuck in a photographic rut and not even know it. To the rescue comes Lightroom Analytics, a free plugin for Adobe’s Lightroom management/editing package that analyses the metadata in your library to spot trends.
As you might expect, the plugin collects basic information such as how often you use a particular camera and your tendencies with aperture, lens, ISO and shutter speed. But the granularity of the data is downright impressive. Aperture and focal length trends can be viewed as a whole, for instance, or for a particular lens.
See if you may be going a bit overboard in post-processing with detailed analysis of the extent to which you apply adjustments such as saturation, temperature, exposure, contrast, highlights, split-toning and more. You can even dial down not just to how much you adjust post-crop vignetting but the amount, midpoint, roundness and feathering of those adjustments.

 

[BackdoorArts]

Interesting tool, but I think this could lead to paralysis by analysis. If I'm happy with what I'm seeing why should I worry how often I use one tool vs. another. Is it part of my style, or is it a crutch?! I don't want to necessarily be forced to think about that. What exactly defines "a bit overboard in post-processing"? I want to be able to see that when I look at an image, not a graph.

Again, I think it could be interesting to look at some of these things, particularly if you find yourself in a rut with regard to what you're shooting. Or see what equipment you are and are not using? But otherwise I'm not huge on stuff like this, only because I know how I can obsess on stuff, and this isn't stuff I want to be obsessing on when I'm out shooting.

 

[Fred Kingston_RIP]

I downloaded and ran it against a couple thousand images for the last 3 years... It was interesting... to see which lens/aperture/mode I'd shot over that time frame...

 

[Scott Murray]

i analyse myself enough as it is, I do not need a computer to tell me that I am stuck in a rutt or on a certain theme, as I already know it and need to work out myself how to change it.

 

[xicaque]

I'll have to try this! Thanks for sharing!