p.1 #1 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
While out hiking today with my camera and an Eye-Fi card uploading photos in realtime to my iPhone+Smugmug account, it occurred that it would pretty cool to have a wedding photographer's photos uploaded as they're shot, to be viewed by friends/family who aren't able to attend the ceremony...or on a live "wall" (monitor) at the wedding itself. Has anyone tried this? Daft idea?
p.1 #4 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
I don't think I would upload as I shoot- I recently picked up a 6D though, and I am going to experiment with grabbing a shot or two via the wifi functionality to upload to Facebook during the reception. My wife shoots with me so she can handle this on her phone during some downtime.
p.1 #5 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
I know a few years back it was very popular to have a same-day slideshow at the wedding reception, and quite a few photographers swore by it (in terms of referral generating abilities). I've never done it and am not really interested in it myself.
I don't know if I trust the Eye-Fi as the best way to do it, and if I did, I would certainly only want to show off my favorites, not every single one.
p.1 #6 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
As an alternative to transmitting every photo to your flickr/smugmug site you can turn off the automatic forward feature so that the photos are initially uploaded only to your smartphone. You can then periodically hand-pick photos on your smartphone to upload to your site. It sounds laborious but the EyeFi iOS app lets you easily select multiple photos and hit a single button to upload the selection. Might even be a job someone from the wedding party would enjoy volunteering for.
p.1 #7 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
sboerup wrote:
I know a few years back it was very popular to have a same-day slideshow at the wedding reception, and quite a few photographers swore by it (in terms of referral generating abilities). I've never done it and am not really interested in it myself.
Ditto. I've got enough stuff to deal with than being sucked into the instant gratification side of photography. Guests have facebook etc if that's what they want to do on someone's wedding day... (I can only assume said people don't really like the couple ;-) )
p.1 #8 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
This sounds interesting and some what along the lines of my post from yesterday about guests posting their photos to a screen at the reception and social media.
I like the idea of having someone monitoring the flow and quick edit of the images displayed. Our quickly changing culture of "instant everything" is upon us and grows every day. The Instagram culture is used to getting it in near real time. Doing this (offering to do this) could possibly show your client and future at-the-event clients that you are indeed aware, if not entrenched, in their culture.
To be done properly it would def need a dedicated editor on the scene and a well practiced work flow. Since the at-the-reception same day slide shows (still and video) are popular and profitable I could see future brides, coming out of the face-to-phone age digging something like this in a big way.
p.1 #9 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
sboerup wrote[/]:
I don't know if I trust the Eye-Fi as the way to do it, and if I did, I would certainly only want to show off my favorites, not every single one.
The Eye-Fi can be set to only upload selected Images. With that on only photos you "protect" are uploaded.
p.1 #10 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
I received a PM about potential workflows and here is my response:
I'm not a professional wedding photog - I've only shot a few weddings for friends. And I haven't tied this at a wedding yet although I'm the primary/only shooter at a wedding later this month that I may try it on.
I'm using an Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB SD card, which currently sells for $45 on Amazon. I've used it in a few cameras so far, including a Canon 6D, Nikon D800, Sony RX1...should work in any camera with an SD card. I wouldn't trust the Eye-Fi as the only storage card for something important as a wedding; mine has a few glitches/hangups every now and then. Instead I would use a camera with two SD slots (or CF/SD combination), with the regular card being the main. For my hike I configured the camera for RAW+JPEG basic, using the smallest image size each camera supports for the JPEG...and have Eye-Fi configured to only upload the JPEGs. You can further reduce the size of the image uploaded to flickr/smugmug by having the Eye-Fi iOS client downsample during the relay upload...This might be useful if a photog wants to restrict the IQ of the interim images for later resale.
I have an iPhone 4 with the tethering service enabled from Verizon (Personal Hot Spot). This makes the iPhone a wireless AP, just like any wireless router, and I have my Eye-Fi card configured to use my iPhone's AP as one of its preferred networks. Whenever the camera takes a photo it (re) establishes a client wireless connection to my iPhone, and transfers the JPEG image to it. I have my iOS client configured to relay that upload to my Smugmug site...which right now is really flaky and only works intermittently. I plan to call Eye-Fi tomorrow to ask why. When it does work though the images pop into an open Browser session on the computer in realtime as each gets processed by Smugmug. The link to that Smugmug gallery can be configured as private so that only those you send the link to can view it, which in this case would be the "wall of photos" computer at the wedding itself as well as remote viewers who couldn't attend.
Naturally the raw photos would still be used for ultimate processing for the delivered images...with the JPEGs serving only as an intermediate viewing.
p.1 #11 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
and I thank you. Perfect thread answering the photog's option to my yesterday's thread asking about guest's real-time posting. thanks again, good info.
p.1 #13 · Live wedding photos using Eye-Fi or equivalent?
snapsy wrote:
Naturally the raw photos would still be used for ultimate processing for the delivered images...with the JPEGs serving only as an intermediate viewing.
