I do my own shortlist, only the best of each position or moment are shown to them. I then whittle them down to my absolute favourites and add the artistic touches to give them an idea of what to expect. Then I print them all as 6x4 proof prints at a minilab, as well as load them onto a proofing gallery on my website. That way the bride and groom can pour over the cheap prints and make their own shortlist, their family and friends can look through the online gallery, then when they've chosen everything if they're buying digital images, I export them all from lightroom as 'burn disc of full sized jpegs". They can either put the 6x4's in a brag book to show their friends, or if you want to hang onto them for your own uses, do, its up to you, but I tend to give them to them as a freebee. Usually i don't leave the artistic decisions to the b&g, if I think a shot would look great a certain way, then thats what happens - they've chosen me for my style so thats generally what they expect anyway. Sounds a bit smug writing it down, but its not intended that way - it just saves a whole heap of deliberating and time. And if they don't want the images but I love them, its not wasted time as I can use them for my portfolio (make sure you get a release form signed).
If you were charging them for the wedding of course you'd charge them a separate fee for releasing the digital images.
You'd do it differently with a 1000 image wedding, but for this it should be fine.
How did it go? Post some shots, I'm really keen to see how you went with that window! |
