I am looking for an on-site event photography software... We are doing events where we take photos/portraits and print them on-site for people to take home.
I have an multi-day event coming up in july with 5,000+ people and need something that is reliable. fast and will help smooth out the workflow of getting the photo from the camera to where the client(s) can view and select the photo(s) they want as quick as possible - then have the image edited and printed on-site.
The 3 programs ive been looking at is Photo Parata, EPS 2 - Event Photography Systems 2
, and 5MinutePhoto
I wish someone would respond to this because I would like an answer also. I am shooting some sporting events (horse shows) every week-end for several weeks starting Memorial day. I am lugging a printer and printing out 4x6 proofs every evening in my hotel room.
Many of my competitors use software to allow people to view the proofs and that would be a lot easier. Obviously, they are not to keen on sharing w/ me what they use.
The other issue is that for the last day's shoot people won't have the opportunity to see proofs unless they have the intitiative to go to my web site.
I wonder if this is a PP issue or if maybe you should post this in one of the other forums such as "Sports Corner" or .
I've seen someone using LR, but it didn't seem terribly well-suited or they were just learning it. I've also seen in the Pro forum some mention of one...5-minute photo for something like that? Run a search over there, it was a very recent thread.
for the price 5 minute photo I've also heard good things about Photo Parata. I use 5 minute. check the archives in sports corner, lots of info there.
Mike
erickhaddad wrote:
I am looking for an on-site event photography software... We are doing events where we take photos/portraits and print them on-site for people to take home.
Go on the sports forum and look for Hammy. He does very large events like you describe. An amazing guy. He has the arena rigged with a firewire card reader system so he can plug in his cards right where he's shooting and it triggers an upload to the kiosk software where people are stacked 10 deep to get their shots. He was telling me the largest he set up had 120 kiosk stations!!! I was amazed to see it all work. Quite simply - he's DA MAN!
Regards,
Jon
hotshotz1,
I know and shoot for Hammy quite a bit. And yes he and a few others are quite knowledgeable about this subject. His system is proprietary but he can steer you in the right direction.
I also do some events but not that much any longer or as big as these guys do.
You would be best to ask this in the sports forum but you can do a search of the site at the top of the page just make sure you change the criteria to username and not topic.
Send him a PM, or you can check with these others in no particular order. P.Aleese, Luke Trottier, John Patrick, Glort to name a few.
Hope this helps
I would think the speed of the printers would be a huge factor in how successful shooting a large event. This is off on a tangent but anyone suggest a workhorse for this exact scenario for UNDER $500?
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