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The pictures he sent to you in an email are going to be too small to print up and have them look nice. I don't understand why he can't give your printing rights to your pictures now, that doesn't take away his rights.
Yes you can do it from the flash drive. Idk about CVS but I know you can for walmart meijer and rite aid
I think it is because it makes you buy them from him now because who wants to wait a year to print wedding photos? That annoyed me too, because I didn't realize that was the case until after the wedding when I received an e-mail about it. I think it is lame too. They were downloaded to my computer though - like he sent them to me in a zip file. Do you still think they will be too small?
Find out how big the files are. If they're like 2 MB then they'll be fine to print yourself. If they're like 100 KB then they're too small.
That is really weird.. is you photographer a professional?
CVS or Walmart will probably ask for the copyright release, though.
if you have a decent printer, use photo paper and print them yourself. It'll tide you over probably. I think it's weird he makes you wait an entire freakin' year for the photo rights though.
Eh we've only been married a year and we only have 2 professional wedding photos up. They're in 5x7 frames. =]
I work as a photographer (in a studio) and I know that a lot of photographers do that - make you wait - and you are right its so you buy them from him now. That is why I made sure I found a photographer who will give me the rights in a few weeks! You can't bring it to CVS or Walmart or anywhere because it is illegal. You don't own the copyright to his artwork only he does for now. Some photographers have an option that you can purchase the CD earlier (for a lot of money but it could be worth it!) When you do get the CD use mpix.com and you can print out prints cheap cheap cheap!!
I would really be careful because they should ask you if you have the rights to print it legally. My photographer gave me the photos about a month after the wedding. I think the policy of not letting you have it or charging you a huge fee for it is ridiculous.
I think this is more of an issue that he never informed you of this until he sent you an email after the wedding. That is ridiculous and so unprofessional.
What did your contract say? If he didnt say he was going to hold onto your photos on CD for a year in the contract, I would question his practice. Don't be afraid to be firm with him. Technically, if you don't have rights for reproduction in your contract you cannot print them yourself. However, if the files are big enough for reproduction in your email - you could "get around" the proof of rights that Walmart and others will require you to provide by printing them through an online printer, like shutterfly.
Yes, he is a professional. I'm just assuming that my contract stated that about the one year anniversary thing and I didn't read it carefully enough, because when we talked about it he would just say that I would get all of the pictures released to me on the CD, never really stating a time. Never would I think I would have to sit and wait a YEAR to get them. What is the point in waiting that long? I know he has all of the photos and is just sitting on them, which in my opinion is just rude and distasteful. We paid thousands of dollars for him to take our wedding pictures and now we have to wait a year to actually get them. I guess I learned a lesson there.
i was able to upload mine to walgreens.com... then just went and picked them up.
YOu can do it from your computer. They didn't ask me for my copyright agreement. I have one but they didnt ask for anything just handed over the pictures but i only got regular 4x6 prints
Do you not have a copy of your contract still? Assuming your contract says this and confirming it are two different things. The whole thing makes business sense to me, though - from the eye of the photographer, as it continues to generate money for him for the year after the wedding. Double check your contract!
If you don't still have a copy of the signed contract, request a copy from him (not just a sample contract, but a scanned version of the one you signed). He should still have it. Double check what is says - I've never heard of a photographer holding your disc for that long.
bloodgo, unless your photog is naive, he didn't send you any files that were large enough to print :( And TXN is right, even if he did, it is illegal for you to print them until he signs off on them. I have heard of photographers having a "waiting period" of up to one year for the DVD of images with the option to "rush" by paying extra. Unfortunately, there is not much you can do outside of paying more to have it rushed if he allows that, waiting the year, or buying prints from him. I know it's not ideal, but at least you do EVENTUALLY get the DVD, and now other brides here will learn from your mistake to not only ask IF they get the DVD and the print rights, but WHEN they get them.
That being said, a lot of people primarily share their photos via Facebook or Myspace anyway (and I would definitely credit the photog when you do this) but maybe after a while you won't even notice you don't have prints then before you know it the year is up!
They charge such a large amount for the cd as it pays for the time they spent cleaning up the photos and their equipment is hugely expensive and so are the programs that do all the fancy clean up. Please do not take the pics somewhere else, if you do you are stealing. If you are unsatisfied with the photographers work or lack thereof, talk to him, maybe he will give you some prints to make up for leaving early.
Eh, whatever. I don't want to dwell on it. Maybe I'll just suck it up and buy a couple from him.
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So as of right now I can purchase my wedding photos from the photographer, but I don't get the CD with all of the photos until our one year anniversary (boo). He sent me all of the files via e-mail, so I'm wondering - if I go to a CVS can you just save the photos to a flash drive and then bring the flash drive in to those camera stations and get the ones you want printed there? I know you can do this with a camera memory card, but have no clue if it works with a flash drive. It is like $16 for a 5x7 through the photographer, soooo if I can save myself the money I'd like to.
Plus, I don't really want to give the guy anymore money. I was really happy with the way the photos turned out, but 1. he left earlier than he was supposed to and 2. he told me that he "can't find" some photos, like of my bouquet toss/garter toss, random dancing photos throughout the night... the latest photos that I got were from the very first dance that everyone danced to so it is a bit of a bummer. We even specifically asked for a few family photos later in the night that his grandparents and the rest of the family were really bummed they're not going to have now.