My photographer gave me a cd of images!

Don’t become an Orphan Bride

It’s sad to say, but there are many brides out there that are about to become Orphan Brides. In case you’re not familiar with the term, an Orphan Bride is someone who gets married and their photographer only gives them the pictures on a cd or dvd. We photographers call this type of photographer a “shoot and burner”, because they shoot the wedding, burn the images to a disc and are gone. Rarely do these “Shooter and Burner’s” edit, crop, or organize the images. Once the wedding is over, the bride gets a disc filled with images just as her photographer promised, however in most cases, she has no idea what to do with them.

But can’t she just take the disc to Wal-Mart and have them printed?

Yes, however, in the majority of cases, this never happens and here’s why. During a typical wedding, a photographer will probably take 1,500 – 3,000 photographs. Not all of these photographs are usable and many are duplicates. The duplicates are made to ensure that we capture the perfect image, everyone’s eyes are open, everyone has a smile on their face, everyone is happy, etc.

With all of these images, it becomes a very time consuming, labor intensive process to sort through these images looking for the keepers. In fact, a professional photographer will probably spend 1 – 3 hours after the wedding, sorting and organizing the images in order to deliver you the usable images. So faced with the thought of all of this work, most brides fail to ever get their disc filled with images developed as they thought they would.

What if I have this Disc with Images?

If your photographer has given you a disc full of images and you need help organizing, sorting and editing, please contact me and I will be happy to help you get your images printed or organized into a photo album for you.

That’s it for today. Scott

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