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[LordSnailz]

wahoo, finally! The thing with our photographer is that she would only take the pictures and 'post process' a small portion of them. The printing and album were up to us. We had to do this in order to stay under budget

Well, we met with her and we got our pictures and I have a grip of questions on how to handle them. I know there are a few photographers on atot, so I hope I can get some insight on how it's done.


Printing pictures: What's the best way to go about this?
1. Do I need to "touch up" the pictures or can I just dump them onto a DVD and have them printed. How much difference will there be? Our photographer did some post processing on 200 of the 600 pictures, the rest was up to us.

2. Is Costco good enough for prints or should I send them somewhere else? Like should I print the photographers pictures at a professional place and the ones shot with your basic 4-5mp camera at Costco?


Creating a small video, slide show with the pictures.
1. Any suggestions on good background music that I can loop through the whole show?

2. What are some good software to use is? I'm thinking of using Infranview or MS Photostory.


Flushed Albums.
1. Where can I do this? I guess I can do the layout on photoshop but where can I get them printed? And what's the approx. cost of one flushed album?


Again, any help is greatly greatly appreciated!!!

 

[Ornery]

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[OffTopic1]

Most place produce good enough quality prints therefore you don't need to go to the professional places if you have good quality negatives. And, get reprints at the better printers if you need a bit of colour corrections, and dogging burrning is left to the pro or load it into Photoshop or the alike for correction.

Most simple tasks can be done easily with software therefore there isn't a need to have the pro do it if you have time. Just pick any music that you like (mostly soft, classical or jazz) and it is best to have a theme.

PS. Most images are not worth keeping because most people don't have the sentimental or family connection to the groom/bride. Therefore be ruthless, there are several saying in photography regard editing, eg. ?professionals shoot 7 to get 1? and ?the quality of image is depends on their darkroom garbage can?. If you don't want to bore the viewers keep around 40 to a max of 60 images for a quality side show.

 

[LordSnailz]

Thanks for the tip on reducing the number of images, the more I think about it the more I realize no one really care about us
bumpity for more tips on what background music to use.

Anyone have a good version Canon D that I can use to loop?

 

[bigi]

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as many of post-processing steps can get quite complicated.

 

[KeyserSoze]

As far as the image slideshow, I've done this a few times with different programs. DVD Lab has something built in, there's a program caleld "Photo2VCD", also Nero has something built in.

Those are rather basic, but can handle the pictures/transitions/music background pretty easily. If you want something more high end, can't help you there. But I suggest trying any one of these out first.



KS

 

[novon]

Walmart does prints through the web or local pickup for pretty cheap. I got some 8x10's for $2 each.

 

[LordSnailz]

cool, going to check our fredmiranda's forum.

argh, didn't know the whole process of picking the right pictures, post process, getting the good prints

 

[nakedfrog]

You can use Pachelbel's Canon in D for the music

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
You can use Pachelbel's Canon in D for the music

heh, like every other wedding couple there ever was.

 

[Sketcher]

Whatever you do, make sure your photographer keeps an original copy and also make multiple copies of your set once you receive them.

BTW, what is the cost your photographer would charge to do everything that you're currently trying to figure out?