once your wedding is over... how much time before you

[KINGoftheVILLE]

have your pics ready for review? How much time do you spend on editing?

When i was doing film (20+ years ago)I told them it was a mim of 3 weeks for the proofs but I usually got them to them in 2.

I was out of town the whole week after the wedding and I am also not a full time photog so I work a regular job and we have been busy 60+ hours a week the last two. Today is three weeks. I just about have them done. I am burning a backup copy as i type. Hope to mail them to them by tuesday am.

does that seem like a long time to you guys?

[DD974]

have your pics ready for review? How much time do you spend on editing?

When i was doing film (20+ years ago)I told them it was a mim of 3 weeks for the proofs but I usually got them to them in 2.

I was out of town the whole week after the wedding and I am also not a full time photog so I work a regular job and we have been busy 60+ hours a week the last two. Today is three weeks. I just about have them done. I am burning a backup copy as i type. Hope to mail them to them by tuesday am.

does that seem like a long time to you guys?

I guess it would all depend on how many photos need PP. For me, I tell clients that it'll take 3-5 weeks to have their DVD completed. I too have a full time job and the B&G understand that up front. Typically on a 6 hr. job I take 500-600 photos (give or take)...sometimes more...so what you're asking isn't out of the norm and reasonable.

[divinemethod]

I say four weeks but as I shoot more weddings, I find myself building actions and making use of lightroom/PS more effectively that I spend less and less time editing. I now take as little as 3 minutes per picture to PP. Before I used to sit around 10-15 mins per pic. Huge difference.

[Robert16]

3 weeks would seem fine. This year I have been saying to the couple that it'll take 2-3 weeks - to give myself extra time just incase. I'm pretty slow on the ol' PP and take 25-35 hours to wade through and edit from 1000 photos.

[djharmonix]

For about 2000 shots it took me about 12 hrs of PP.

Gave out a good 300 keepers. At least 500 are good but a bit repetitive so i have to discard them down to 300.

That's excluding more special effects ones, BW and sepia shots.

[jillybean]

I say 2-3 weeks for proofs- I take 500 down to 200 presentable ones

[NathanJK]

I used to say 5 days for proofs and now I've pushed it to one week. I sort them the night of the wedding (see what time I'm posting this right now? I'm not big on sleeping during the nights...) I then spend the next few days going through doing big batch corrections in bridge usually 40 pictures at a time. After that, I separate them out into vertical and horizontal and run Image Processor in CS2 to size them and sharpen them for the web. I generally goof off online while that is running :wink: Then it's a simple matter to upload them to my proof hosting site (exposure manager) and e-mail the couple the gallery link and password. One to two weeks later I put up a retouched gallery of 20-40 images that were my favorites that I do "special" stuff to.

[cdifoto]

I say 7-10 business days for the online proofs unless something major and unexpected happens in "real life." Usually I have them up within 3 or 4. Culling is the hardest part.

[Mike]

I tell the couple 4-6 weeks but aim to have them done sooner - I just last night finished pp-ing a wedding from 3 weeks ago - I have been on holiay abroad for a week in between too! I would have probably had them finished within 10 days otherwise.

[tim]

I say 30 business days, sometimes more in summer. In practice I can have color corrected proofs ready in 2 days if i'm working at it. My average delivery time is less than a week, but i'm full time.

[egordon99]

I "promised" 2 weeks in my first two contracts....My wife made me change it two 30 days from here on out :lol: My first wedding was a week ago, and so far I've at leasted picked out the "keepers" (~400), so now I have to process them in ACR. I'm going to try to put a big dent in them tonight.

I did email one nice shot to the bride the morning after the wedding, and she really liked it. Figure that way they have something to enjoy on the honeymoon.

[razyl]

I get all the processing & web gallery and DVD ready in an average of 9.3 days....but I tell people 2 weeks so I have some breathing space when busy

[egordon99]

Wedding was October 4th, so far all I have selected all the keepers (~400 out of 1200 shots), processed the Formals and posted them up on my website. Now I just have to do the Ceremony, the Cocktail Hour, and the Reception. Gonna try to get through the ceremony tonight. I did just install Gallery2 on my web server, so that at least makes the web posting stuff pretty easy.

[tim]

Wedding was October 4th, so far all I have selected all the keepers (~400 out of 1200 shots), processed the Formals and posted them up on my website. Now I just have to do the Ceremony, the Cocktail Hour, and the Reception. Gonna try to get through the ceremony tonight. I did just install Gallery2 on my web server, so that at least makes the web posting stuff pretty easy.

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