Red Tie Photography wrote in post #10564172
I really do love this idea. How do you edit/print/assemble it all during dinner? I'm guessing you. Ring a printer and laptop and...
Care to fill me in on the details?
It's pretty straight forward to do it .... its just the time element or should I say lack of time that makes it tough ... plus getting carried away whilst choosing the pics makes it harder.
We generally only do this when there's two of us shooting the wedding although I think it would be possible on your own, in fact the choosing pics part would probably be easier because your looking at your own photos only.
So when clients sit down for the wedding breakfast I do the following.
* Download just JPGs from all CF cards to mac book pro (we shoot RAW+small JPG so we don't have to download 5DMKII raw files and process them for this)
* Run an automator batch to rename them and put them in a single folder. I could skip this step if I used something like photo mechanic to download them/rename them as it goes.
* View the images and choose about 50-100 telling the story of the day. We choose this many because we usually do a slideshow at the wedding too. I have used bridge and LR for this but am going to trial iPhoto and Picasa in future because LR and bridge are both pretty slow to show previews.
* I run the chosen images through showit effects applying tweaks to them, although most of the images in this album were straight out of the camera.
* Pick 10-20 images for the album and Print the images on a little Canon Selphy CP720 dye sub printer. The album only needs 10 but I always print at least 5 more so I can swap them around and see which I prefer.
* Stick the photos in a 6 x 4 self stick photo album.
* Hand over album to the client ... that's the nice bit that makes it worthwhile.
I keep meaning to do a little video of what we do to add to my YouTube channel (I am sure it would be funny and quite enlightening to watch myself do it!) but I have another wedding this Saturday so I will try and remember!
