Help please. Wedding Photos.

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Now that I have caught the photography bug, I have one thing more than any I need to do.

I got married 2 years ago and quite frankly the photos are pretty kak. (paid quite a lot too). :thumbsdown:

I want to manipulate them into better images (which I know I can do with the help of PS).

Without owning a scanner, which, if any is the best way to get these photos on my PC. I do know that the images are copyright of the photog but as they are for personal use I thought there would be no problem me altering them.

Should I buy a scanner? Are scanners good enough? Do I get the photos scanned by a professional?

Answers to these questions could put a different sort of smile on the wife's face.

TFL.
 
You could do what I did, phone the tog and ask if you can buy the negs, as its been 2 years so he's not going to get any repeat business off you now.

When I phoned my tog he said give it 3 months as he wanted to use our pictures for his main album, then he just gave them to me.
 
Technically you're breaking copyright by scanning them, so any reputable scanning firm should refuse to do the job.

Contact your photographer in the first instance, working from the original files will give you the best results - did he shoot digital ?
 
Imo, you're not breaking copyright by scanning your (own) wedding photos, editing them, or showing/displaying them in private. Imo, you would break copyright if you sold the result to others, or displayed it in public.

Scanners are cheap, tiler, and provide excellent quality hi-res scans.
Go for it!
 
You are, just like when you copy a CD to play in your car. But would I prosecute a client that ordered a 6x4 from me and scanned it to blow up to 18x12 ? Of course not.

Would their 18x12 be a good as one prepared from the original image data - nope.

That 6x4 contains a subset of the original image information, printed at 300 dots per inch. It doesn't matter how good the scanner is, it can't extract any more information than that.

That's why I advise going back and getting the originals if you can.
 
WeddingHack said:
You are, just like when you copy a CD to play in your car.
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Spookily enough you can... as long as you do not let anyone listen to the CD whilst you are listening to the copy as you have bought a license for personal use of the music contained on it, and the physical manifestation of it is an irrelevance.

However UK laws are so to pot in this area that now its only sort of legal to copy your own CD's :)

But it is illegal to download an MP3 of a track you have on vinyl and listen to that as the person who uploaded it doesn't (normally) have the right to distribute it.

And it seems that even the music industry is not sure of your backup/use rights. If you buy songs from iTunes Music Store, you can legally copy them to another computer as long as you (the original buyer) authorise it.

its a crazy world :shrug:

Just thought i would stick my oar in ;)
 
Putting aside the legal and copyright issues, if they were shot on film, then Yes you can scan them in. I would use a good scanner and re-sell later on, especially as they are your won wedding shots adn pretty important I would imagine.
The quality you can get from a high end scanner is superb.
 
W.Smith said:
Imo, you're not breaking copyright by scanning your (own) wedding photos, editing them, or showing/displaying them in private. Imo, you would break copyright if you sold the result to others, or displayed it in public.

Scanners are cheap, tiler, and provide excellent quality hi-res scans.
Go for it!
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Sorry W.Smith - you are mistaken there. They are not your photos, they are your prints of the togs photos. Scanning them is breaking copyright law, plain and simple.

Unless you purchase the full rights and obtain the negs or raw files, you cannot do anything with the prints you have - legally!

@tiler65: I'd contact your photographer and ask if there's any way you can obtain the negatives. Good luck.
 
I have a scanner but I almost never use it now. If I want a digital copy of an old family picture I just put it on a table near a window and take a digital picture of it. Takes no time at all and quality is pretty good. Same for home 'photocopies' of documents - perfectly legible down to fine detail.
 
Thanks for all your replies.

I do know about copyright that is why I asked.

About the legality of the photos, who committed a crime?

Me or the Tog?

I say the Tog for producing shots like he did for a huge some of money. When we first got the photos back I was a little understated by them but the wife says 'Thats nice, not bad, look at my hair in this one, the dress is a bit tight in this one, what a lovely shot of the rings' etc. All in a gooey eyed bid for the last piece of romance of the day, but to be frank, now that I have seen what even amateur togs can do, the photos are plain rubbish. Even my wife agrees now.

Its too late to have the photos retaken and because its been 2 years and we could not go through all that again (all the family arguments, kids running wild, drunken men (me I think) the wife getting back in her dress, no offence darling, dads dancing, the old chin rub off the gang of elderly aunts).

I doubt I will get a refund and I do not think even my wedding insurance would cover poorly taken photos.

So you see why I want to do them myself.

The tog had used digital for the first time at my wedding :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

He does not have them stored anywhere.

Thanks again for reading and come and visit me in Strangeways.
 
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