PASS charges per album of photos Pixieset charges for bandwith/storage. PASS is a phenomenal application that is incredibly intuitive and easy to use for delivering digital photos to clients. Also, clients are usually only printing at most one or two photos extra large, so I don’t see the need to make every photo 30 inches on the long edge. I do this in the interest of hard drive and cloud storage space. Anything larger and I’m happy to provide a specific file to my client directly. My export settings make each of my images only about one or two megabytes in size, but they are able to be printed up to 11×14″. Most clients won’t be able to tell the difference between good, great, and perfect. If you do, you are editing for yourself and other photographers, not the client. Never spend more than 30 seconds on a photo. I upload the Highlights into a PASS gallery, and deliver this immediately, so the clients don’t have to wait any longer to see some of their wedding images. These are then exported at 2500px, 300dpi, 88 quality, (and also renamed Highlights-0001.jpg, Highlights-0002.jpg, etc.), into a folder called Highlights which has been created inside the the main folder of images. This should take about an hour or two tops. Sometimes I start with a base preset in Lightroom, one I called “Typical Phil.” I hand edit all of these photos. I never open photoshop unless I’m making a diptych or doing heavy changes to a photo. I actually enjoy editing these ones, because I am proudest of them, and they are all different. Step #3 – Editing and retouching (three hours)Īfter I’ve selected my favorites, I edit them first. Also, you really have to trust your gut on which photos are winners here. This should take about 10-15 minutes, since you are selecting from a much narrower field of photos. I almost always end up with 100 photos, give or take a few. They are images that would likely end up in a photo album (besides family photos). These are the best photos from the day that tell a clear story from beginning to end. Next I go through and do my two-star selects. To get photos like these, I usually have the guys grouped together in a friendly way, and then I tell them to “harass the groom.”
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