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By Lei Lydle
Founder and Editor
Last Updated: 6/24/2008 5:34:12 PM |
***Please note that this article was originally written in 1998 and I am in the process of researching to update it because some of the information is completely out-of-date. Look to the comments at the end for some more up-to-date info from photographers. Thanks! ~ Lei*** What Are You Buying?
Before you go out to meet with photographers, you need to know what you are buying:
Pre-wedding Portraits (optional)
The pre-wedding portraits can be engagement portraits of the bride and groom (often used for newspaper announcements), or a large portrait of the bride in her wedding gown (often displayed at the reception).
Posed and Candid Shots
These are the actual exposures that will be taken at the wedding - some posed, some candids. These will be produced into proofs for your review and some will be chosen to be touched up and mounted into your wedding album.
The Wedding Album
The albums are usually large leather albums that may be white, off-white, pink, brown or black. The photos are permanently mounted in the albums. You can have the outside cover engraved with your names and wedding date and you may or may not have a picture mounted in the front cover.
Extra Pictures
You may want to order extra pictures (and albums for that matter) for parents, grandparents, attendants, etc.
Terminology
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35mm cameras - Those familiar and widely available cameras used by professional and amateur photographers alike. These cameras are fine for weddings, however the smaller negative size limits the size of the enlargements, usually only up to 16x20. |
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Candids - Those pictures that are not posed. |
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Bridal Portrait - A formal portrait of the bride in her wedding gown. |
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Engagement Portrait - An informal posed picture of you and your fiancé. |
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Exposures - Each time the photographer clicks the camera - usually 150 to 200 times. |
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Medium-format Cameras - The negative size (usually 2 1/4" x 2 1/4") is larger than a 35mm thus making enlargements clearer. Prints usually have more contrast, depth and warmer colors. |
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Prints - The enlarged and retouched proofs which are placed into the wedding album. Typical sizes are 5 x 7, 8 x 8, 8 x 10 and 10 x 10. |
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Proofs - The development of the exposures which are usually 5 x 5 pictures that are unretouched. Prints are chosen from these proofs. |
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Amir - Photo Fanatic Photography from VA DC MD area says... |
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The previous post was not entirely correct as there are 35mm and medium format digital cameras.
We shoot entirely digitally using 35mm SLR cameras, though I will agree that the article is not accurate when it mentions the limitations on print size being 16x20 with 35mm cameras as I have regularly printed spectacular images as large as 40x60 with no problems.
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Posted: 6/24/2008 4:19:46 PM |
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Cliff from Florida says... |
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This info is really out-of-date, especially the part about 35mm and medium-format which only applies to FILM camera. Digital has pretty much wiped out medium format for weddings. |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 9:13:01 AM |
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T.Skutt from Hawaii says... |
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It is a good thing to have the bride get an individual photo taken with each bridesmaid. It makes a personal gift after the wedding as a thank you for standing up for me.
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Posted: 8/31/2004 4:32:31 AM |
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