Forums: Photography:

Kirra and I (and Joe) shot photos for my younger sister's wedding this week. Between the three of us, even excluding Joe's "the asses of every wedding guest" series, we probably shot 1500+ photos.

Trimmed down, I'll still have 300 or more decent shots left to work with.

I'd like to put them together into a wedding album, but the design aspect of it is totally alien to me. How many photos does one include in a wedding album? Is there a prescribed format? Any hints or pointers?

Danke.

printed or online?

If online, I built this one for my brother's wedding, fully automated, based on php, no database.
greynotgrey.com/simon_kathryn_wedding/

You just have to convert all the photos to thumbnail gifs & regular full size jpgs - just photoshop batches, nothing complicated.
PM me if you want the code.

No, I was planning on a traditional paper book, although I'll probably get it printed via blurb.com, online.

Just not sure whether to include 20 photos, or 200, etc. etc. etc.

I'll check urs out, tho.

how often do you look at your wedding album MC?
If you're anything like me then you haven't seen it since the kids last accidentally found it and were as amused as you were with the way you looked back then
At the time when we first had the album and friends first dropped, in the wedding was still fresh in their minds, if you had 10 pics of the same thing they'd tend to look at the first one or two and then skim the rest 'til they see the next batch/scene.
Now many years later, when someone looks thru the album they tend to linger on every image for longer. It brings back memories for those that were there, and each image (including the multiples of the same scene) adds to the picture for those that weren't there.
The more the better I say MC

Interesting thoughts, 10+. Thanks.

our wedding album has about 50-60 in it I think. They gave us about 300 photos so that we could make the final cut ourselves.

I'm sure you wouldn't shy from any photoshop shenanigans, but just in case I'll tell you that in a couple of places the photographer had a decent group photo except for one idiot (me) who'd closed his eyes. So she swapped my whole head out for a better head she'd got on another shot. You can tell only if you know to look for it, and I'm sure you'd do a better PS job.

Originally posted by: DontBogartMe
our wedding album has about 50-60 in it I think. They gave us about 300 photos so that we could make the final cut ourselves.

I'm sure you wouldn't shy from any photoshop shenanigans, but just in case I'll tell you that in a couple of places the photographer had a decent group photo except for one idiot (me) who'd closed his eyes. So she swapped my whole head out for a better head she'd got on another shot. You can tell only if you know to look for it, and I'm sure you'd do a better PS job.

Oh, you know I'm not above that at all. I've already removed background people in a couple, and changed a little girl out from one shot (where everybody else is looking away) to another shot (where she is crying).

I think I've culled our shoot down to about 500 or so.

lol of course


You must have had a sore trigger finger after taking that lot

Man, I'm *almost* done putting this bitch together. No wonder wedding photogs get paid so much. I must have 80 frikken hours in this book by now.

I'm sure if I did it a lot my process would get more efficient, but man...

They better love this book!

*shakes fist*

if you were getting paid for it you wouldn't put nearly so much effort into it!

Well done, I'm sure it's awesome

Originally posted by: DontBogartMe
if you were getting paid for it you wouldn't put nearly so much effort into it!

You're prolly right about that.