howdy, gang! i appologize if this has been discussed before, but i haven't had much time to spend on the fred lately. so, here goes: given a typical wedding day, how many images do you shoot? no right or wrong here, just curious if there's a trend. i know some have philosophies one way or the other, but i'm just curious about the statistics.
Ceremonies I shoot about 1000, deliver 400 proofs for album/print selection. If I do prep shots (make up, getting dressed, etc), add about 200 and 100 respectively. If we do portraits in the park, add about 400 and 200.
This was discussed at length just a month or so .. I'd encourage you to search the archives for the thread as it's pretty interesting .. one guy (forget his name) shoots a ton (something like 5,000 photos) and his work is awesome. Maybe he'll come in and post on this one as well.
Personally I'm very much on the low end .. shoot just over 1,000 and deliver maybe 400.
take between 700-800 on average for an 8 hour wedding. Edit down to about 400 then chose and show the best 250-300. Any more than that and I find my clients get bored.
same as sboerup...deliver 3-400, shoot double that.
.i will have to check out the past thread....i'm interested what giving ppl 800+ pics to a couple looks like....i mean, what possibley else could you give them...is it alot of dupes?
take about 1000, and edit down to 600-700. even then, i think it's way too much for most people to deal with. i'm looking to get it down to under 500 this year.
tdl2920 wrote:
take about 1000, and edit down to 600-700. even then, i think it's way too much for most people to deal with. i'm looking to get it down to under 500 this year.
I want to deliver less as well (less total images means more better images), 1000 shot edited to 500 should do it.
When I get to shooting 600 and delivering 400, that should really do it.
I shoot about 1000 and deliver around 300-400. I cannot imagine giving 800 or more shots to the wedding couple. I am sure that they enjoy the first run through, but then when they actually have to decide which ones that they want that has to be a huge mountain.
This might strike a nerve, but if you deliver 800-1000 shots how many of those extra shots take away from some of your other shots that would easily stand on their own? I would think that I would rather look at 10 awesome shots than 100 with some mixed in with that.
