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My question is for all you married bees or previously married. If you got a cd or whatever from your pro photographer how many edited images did you get for all day photography??
We received almost 600 images. It was a small wedding, without many of the typical photography moments (e.g. no cake cutting, garter toss, etc.), and we had a single shooter for 7 hours of coverage. I am very happy with the amount of images that we received.
It will depend on how long your wedding is, how quick your photographer is, whether you have more than one shooter, and whether your photographer gives you all pictures or only a selection (taking out duplicates, misses, etc). as well a s whether they give you multiple versions of the same picture (pre-process, b/w & color, etc.)
Our wedding was quite short (4 hours), we had one shooter, and I didn't want any weird processing so we only got a little under 500 (I think it was like 480 something).
Hmm thanks ladies I would love to hear more. Trying to find out what the average is.
From the wedding we received 876 images. I'd say about 100 of those, give or take, are duplicates or shots I think are unflattering/shots the photographer shouldn't have included. We had 7 hours of coverage and 2 shooters.
In our contract, it says we'll be recieivng all the edited images, unless basically someone ruins the photo. Cross your fingers for me that I don't do any awkward blinking, haha.
We had 8 hours of coverage and we received 1000pictures. They were all edited and all different and we were really happy with the photos we have :)
About 400 and they all came out great! We had our photographer for 8 hours.
People got 500 +??? I am so jealous! Makes me wonder why we didn't get so many....
500+???????? We got 350 for 8-9 hours coverage, one photographer. I'm jealous now too!
I think a little over 600. That was 2 shooters, from getting ready to going home
I'll be getting about 800. She shoots in both film and digital, so it's not as many as other brides, but more than enough because she's so talented. The proof album will have all of the photos. The actual album will have 50 matted photos. The online gallery will have 100 photos.
Edit: There's 2-3 photographers in my package, so about 275-400 photos per photographer.
I think our contract says 450-550 images....and now I'm feeling a bit of that 1000+ jealousy, too! Then again, 500 pictures is a lot of pictures....and we'll probably just end up picking the best few to frame and what not. I'll relax now. :P
@ juliepants I feel you! I try to remember that my parents' wedding album only has 10 photos, and capturing the main moments is the point of wedding photography. 450 is still plenty. Keep reminding yourself why you hired your photographer-the talent, cost, whatever reasons!
1000+ images is way too many in my opinion. You're better off having fewer, because in all honesty, how different can those 1000 photos be? And how many times are you going to look at all of them? If you spent only 30 seconds looking at each photo, you'd already be spending over 8 hours viewing the photos from your wedding day.
If a photographer takes and gives you 1000 photos from 8 hours of coverage (7 usable because of travel, etc.), that means the photographer has to get an average of one good photo every 25 seconds. Does something new and different happen once every 25 seconds? And not every photo is usable, either, so they probably have to take a photo every 15 or 20 seconds, which doesn't leave them much time to get shots right. To set up lighting, to find the best places, etc.
I would much rather have 200-300 great photos that I wanted to cherish, all different, than 10 of the same group portrait. It is the photographer's job to pick out the very best from your special day, not to dump all the photos on you and make you wade through them for the best. Anything more than 500 I think is just overwhelming.
REMEMBER: Quality is more important than quantity. And while both is good, quanitity will not make up for a lack in quality, but quality will more than suffice for a lack in quantity.
just under 1000, with 10 hours of coverage. her average she said was about 100/hour
Off the top of my head I think it was something like 1100 diffrent photos, 1600 total (because there were about 500 he double-processed in both color and black and white)
But, he was there for about 8 hours and had a second shooter, so I'm sure there were a LOT of photos to start with.
@Peony007: You're right, I love her work! My parents' album was smaller, too, and I never felt like it wasn't enough. :)
I meant to mention that we'll have 2 shooters for 8 hours, btw.
The average is 50-100 final images per hour shot. Remember, Quality is always better than Quantity.... At least thats my policy when shooting.
We received more than 1,000 images; however, none of them was edited. :(. I had no idea that my photographer does not do that type of work. (He was recommended by my venue.) As a result, I now have to find -- and pay -- another photographer to perform all of the editing work and all of the work to produce my wedding albums. I've now been married for more than two-and-a-half years, but I haven't even started working on my albums. :(
We got about 1200 but, like others have said, some of those were the same shot but in color, B&W, etc.
We had 2 shooters for the full day. Shooting pics of both of us getting ready and all the way through the reception.
Here's a breakdown of what we received - 155 getting ready pics, 55 first look, 68 ceremony, 80 photos of the 2 of us, 82 formals with family and wedding party, 47 cocktail hour, 22 of our first dance, 78 detail photos, 277 photos from our reception. Total 864. These were all different shots. I have not counted dupes in different colors.
OOH! Thank you for that breakdown! Tell me you didn't have to count all those yourself? :P
Either way, it was really cool for me to see!
Industry standard is around 40-60 images per hour of shooting per photographer. Newbies tend to give you thousands of images, but this is not typical. Every image on your CD should be at least color corrected. Any special editing beyond that varies per contract and photographer.
Quality over quantity as they say!
Our photographer says at least 500 pictures... we'll see how many actually turn out since it's a small wedding. I'd be happy with 200 if everything was captured. :) I really don't need hours and hours worth of pictures, or 10 shots of the same thing from the same angle.
Erhm, we received a lot more than 500, with two shooters around 9-10 ish hours? And to this "quality over quantity bit...it is possible to have both, just saying. As to what we got, we received an external hard drive of the digital images.
@seahorsey: Apparently, blinking can be fixed!! We have a shot that I absolutley love, and when we were picking the photos for our album, our photographer revealed that he needed to edit my husbands eyes open, since he had been blinking!!
Depends on what you mean edited? He edited things upon our request slightlstand the ones in our album, but the vast majority were not edited. They didn't need to be. What he edited was things likeremoving exit signs etc. if he had to change a bunch of crops etc he wasn't very good to begin with. So we got 1000 pics and he edited anything upon request. About 40. 80 were in our album
I just wanted to add that I do agree, 1000 is too many if you are getting ones that are duplicated, people with their eyes closed etc. the photographer should be weeding those down until you get different photos throughout the set.
We had 2 photographers plus an assistant who was taking a fair amount as well, and thats how we ended up with 1000 images that actually are completely different. They deleted bad ones with peoples eyes closed though. I do have some photos that are of the same moment, but because all three photographers were so spread out, we have three totally different angles and I have found that I love every single one of them. Here's our breakdown incase it helps anyone:
Getting ready 12:00 pm til 1 pm: 205
First look 1pm til 2:30: 155 (we set aside a good chunk of time for this)
Ceremony 2:30 til 4: 240 including hanging out at the venue waiting for the ceremony
Family, wedding party, bride and groom 4pm til 5:30: 230. I grouped them together because they were all taken in the same time slot.
Reception 5:30 til 8: includes detail shots. 180
If you have one photographer, then under 500 images sounds good. If you have more than one photographer, just make sure that they are spreading out to get different perspectives so that you don't end up with the same photo in a ton of different colours. It also helped us to have a photographer getting the detail shots at the reception and photos of guests at cocktail hour, while the other photographer and assistant stayed with us to set up the wedding party and bride and groom photos.
@rachaelrobin: Of course it is possible to have both - I just wanted to emphasize that you shouldn't pick someone who maybe isn't as good just because they say they are going to give you way more photos. Don't judge a photograher solely on the number of photos they promise you. Some photographers may also underpromise and overdeliver, so keep that in mind if there is a minimum stated in the contract.
@USER876: I definitely agree. 40-60 per hour for an experienced photographer is pretty typical. And yes, a new or beginning photographer will give you way more photos than an experienced photographer, but an experienced photographer will, more likely than not, spend more time and attention to detail when editing (at least in my opinion).
@Juliepants: No I did not count them. They were in folders already by topic so it gave me the counts :) My photos were also fully edited. Skin imperfections removed, no closed eyes, and perfect coloring.
We got between 400 and 500 photos. Which is plently for us!
ETA: My photographer was with us all day long. from 9am till 1am.
We received almost 700 edited photos and could frame any one of them. It was extremely difficult to pick out 50 for our album.
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