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Beautiful! I think this has made my day, truly. Can I also apply it to the clients before I deliver their wedding photos so they don't care? Thank you for this.

He and I both shoot on a Canon 5D and use the same lenses. But I can't see how you make color correction in Aperture +8, so I think I'll leave it. I suspect it may have to do with the lab that produces his proof prints, that this may be a formula to act as antidote or help with their color correction formula, etc.

Hello,

Can anyone help me understand what exactly that means?

Select all photos, make the CC +8, Sat -12, add 6 to the blacks.

A friend gave me this workflow for weddings -- RAW to JPG -- and this is just

before he does individual adjustments to the photos.

I am using Aperture -- he uses capture1. If anyone can help me decipher I could

do the same in Aperture.

Thanks!

Thanks Stefanie -- as dense as I feel, this is invaluable. Question: you import the RAW photos

into folders organized by the groom's last name -- can you explain that a bit more? I had

imported all the RAW files into one folder, but felt like it was taxing the system to have so

many huge files in one folder. How do you divide the collection up among folders-by CF card

No?

I'm having some trouble crafting a good workflow in Aperture for about 1300 wedding photos. I've got

everything in RAW, have to convert about 25% to black and white, and then do my JPG conversion.

Can anyone share what they do in a quick list?

One more question about workflow: Do I make my changes to the RAW and then convert a

batch to JPEG? Or make changes to the JPEG, but try to make them at once so I'm not saving

and resaving? IF I make changes to the RAW, what if I accidentally save those changes in teh

RAW file? Wouldn't I be ruining my original file?

This is helpful, and I'm able to find these functions in Bridge. Now my question is, when I get

to Step 3, where I choose the size of the jpg, it says 5 by default and allows me to input

something else. I can't tell how big a number I can put in here, nor would I know what the

consequences will be. Also, since I have to make proof prints from these files, do I also click

"Convert profile to sRGB?

OK, great. One more part to this question:

Apart from sizing the jpgs to what most people's monitors can display nicely, should I also

consider whether the client will want to do custom prints from these files--not necessarily

with me, but over time? In that case, should I size the jpg conversions larger?

Hello,

I'm doing my first post production on a digital wedding, shot with a Canon 5D. I shot everything RAW and

will do a batch conversion to jpg for the client.

Question is, what size jpg do people recommend I deliver the files? I will also send the collection to the lab

to have proof prints done.

Thanks.

Dear Photo Netters,

I want to offer a potential client digital shooting for her wedding, rather than film. Two

questions:

1. How do I make proof prints for her--at my lab or on my own printer at home? I saw

someone mention giving a client a proof book from digital files, but don't know what this

is.

2. What is the archival quality of such proof prints and of custom prints using digital files?

Any new or updated knowledge out there about this topic? Can I assure her that it's on

par with film as far as we know?

Thank you.

I shot a wedding with my husband/partner at 8 months. It actually works well

b/c people comment on it, initate conversation and it sort of confers good

vibes on the bride and groom's future fertility as well. Because of it being sort

of unusual and very respectable, that you're working so hard while so

pregnant, the photos you get of people will be super. They'll open up and

share with you in a way they might not were you simply the wedding

photographer lady! So count it as an asset and rest as much as poss

between episodes of shooting.

Thank you all. I need to hear this. I think the site is pretty iffy too and have

hired someone to clean it up, reduce image size, ensure cross platform

consistency, etc. But he is MIA and I think I hvae to hire someone a bit more

professional. Thanks everyone and the deep crits are especially welcome as

we need to make this as strong as poss.

Help, I lost the thread early on: What's a digital proof book? Who is making the proofs, you

off your own printer or a lab?

When shooting a wedding this summer, I got some bizarre shots with my EOS 1V using 17-40 lens at 4.0.

The day was a bit overcast and I got three categories of b x w prints:

1. prints that made the day suddenly turned to night -- looked as if the poolside reception was happening

at 10 pm rather than 2 pm

2. half the shot would turn out darkened or completed whited out -- for example the left half or right half

would darken or whiten

3. prints were great -- no shadows, no darkening.

I've posted a shot related to #2 issue and wonder if anyone can help me figure out what went wrong. The

first issue is I think due to using a flash when the light was too ambient or diffuse. So best to use it for fill

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Hello all,

My husband and I have partnered up to do wedding photography. We both shoot, together, so we're

hoping that this gives good coverage of the event. Meanwhile we've put together a web site and are in

need of feedback from people who are familiar with photography (rather than relatives and friends).

Any responses would be appreciated.

P.S. Some kinks with the lines right now are being resolved by a web fixit person.

www.annaandjames.com

I photographed a wedding and the client loved the pics. Post-film processing, they asked

for scans of everything. I edited the scans to match their set of proofs (deleting scans of

substandard proofs that I had rejected, e.g.). Problem: I made mistakes and the lab made

mistakes. Result is the client having to go through all her proofs to match against scans

nad figure out which scans are missing. She has done this and we're pretty much wrapped

up and I'm sending her her negs.

However, my conscience bothers me about this: Should I reimburse her the money she

paid me to scan the negs? I feel bad for her that she's had to painstakingly go through all

700 + proofs to find missing scans. On the other hand, she's got a great set of wedding

photos, enough for several albums.

OK so here is what I'm hearing:

Shoot this family's portrait at about 3 PM or so on the Brooklyn Bridge. Pray for a cloudy day.

If not cloudy, have the sun backlighting them rather than front lighting them. F stop at 5.6,

with flash straight on them. Look into permits for photographing on the Bridge.

A friend of a friend has hired us to shoot her famly portrait as a gift to her mother. Nine

people, on the Brooklyn Bridge. Questions:

1. What is the best time of day to shoot the photo?

2. Any tips on lighting? We are new to lights b/c we usually shoot weddings.

3. Are there any pitfalls we as rookies may encounter that we can look out for?

P.S. They want one color 16 x 20 print from all this. We shoot with a Canon 20D.

How can I number film proofs though, so there are no gaps in the numbering? Digital, yes,

but film --?

How can I number film proofs though, so there are no gaps in the numbering? Digital, yes,

but film --?

To all who have responded, I have learned so much and offer humble thanks. None of this

was covered in our consult and I have edited my contract now to remedy it. We never arrived

at a set number of shots either; I think all will be OK, it's just that the client doesn't

understand why there are gaps in the proof numberings. Again, this has been most

instructive, a great forum.

Help! A client has received her proofs and is all paid up. Now she wants to know whether

what she received was everything that was shot. We did an edit on what was shot and

removed obviously bad shots -- not overly so though. We gave them most of what we took,

of course and just left out total rejects - black, totally out of focus, horrible looking ones,

etc.

What should I do, is there a professional way to respond? Is this process, of editing out

horrible shots, typical? I thought it was but don't want to lie to her if not.....