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Editing & Showing Engagement Pictures..how many is enough?
Eric Jones, Photographer
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Greenville | NC | USA | Posted: 3:47 PM on 06.10.09 |
| ->> This is a question for all the wedding photographers or anyone who does quite a bit of senior or engagement pictures. I’ve just started to get involved in some engagement sessions and so far I’ve done two back to back. On both shoots we went to several different locations within the specified area and left both sessions with over 1,000 images. My question…what is a good # of images to show the client once you have edited all the images? I may take 10-15 of the same shot with the clients moving around a bit and then move to another location or switch them up a bit and take a few more. I guess I’m asking, if you are paying the photographer for these shots how many would be a reasonable amount to show? Right now with the two sessions that I’ve completed I’ve had well over 100 images that I feel are very nice shots. Is that too many or should I weed them down a bit? I know the more images you have the more sales you will potentially have but not sure if that is just way too many, just right or not enough. Each picture may be different from the others even though they are shot in the same setting but the guy may be looking down in one shot and then looking away and the same with the girl, so that is why I’m coming up with so many images. Just trying to cover all the angles of the shots. Any thoughts or feedback on this issue? |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 4:04 PM on 06.10.09 |
->> 1000? An engagement session I'd venture no more than 15 to 20, 30 at the most and that would be for a LONG session at 3 or 4 locations. When I edit a portrait session the idea is to toss (and keep tossing) anything that is remotely so so. Put another way, you may have tried 75 or 175 different poses, setups, lighting rigs. That doesn't mean, nor should they expect, that you will have something from every setup or pose.
For seniors I may shoot 100-125 and ya 15 of those are the same pose in front of the same prop with the fill at slightly different angles etc. In the end I'll pull 2 or 3 from each pose and pitch the rest. If you put 15 of the same pose in front of anyone who isn't an editor and accustomed to culling photos you will confuse the crap out of them. They'll like their hands in this one but their eyes in that one and oh there are way too many stray hairs in that one, yada yada yada.
Give them the other half of what makes you a pro, edit tight and spare them the indigestion of looking at 500 photos of themselves. |
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Jon Wright, Photographer
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Wayzata | MN | USA | Posted: 5:21 PM on 06.10.09 |
| ->> I'm thinking 40 max. If you show more it waters down the impact and the client just starts to get confused. |
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