Wedding Pictures - Quick Processing?

[Steven001]

Hello,

I've got a wedding which I'm doing soon - my Mums - and I'm just wondering what you would do in terms of processing. I intend to put up a slide show at the reception, showing pictures from the day (that is, if they are good enough ) although I'm still unsure how to do this. But I'm just wondering what sort of processing I should do to the shots before putting them on display?

Should I just do a bath process sharpen, save as /jpeg and display, or process each image individually?

 

[JasonRS]

What software do you have?

 

[-Rob-]

I shot my first wedding on Sunday. I'm allowing myself 2 weeks to process all the pictures before the B&G get back off honeymoon. I started last night and in just over 2 hours I only had time to go through each shot to see which ones to delete then I processed 27 of the 513 that were left. I'm planning on getting through 50 per night for the next 10 nights.

Having said that though, if you are just after a quick solution then set up an automated action in Photoshop to do a sharpen, resize and save as JPG and run it on the pics you want to show.

Personally though I'd advise against it. Save the pictures until after the honeymoon when you've had time to process them properly and do them the justice they deserve. If you rush it then you'll end up showing the bad pictures as well as the good ones and that won't reflect well on you.

 

[Tbabe]

Steven,
I have to agree with Rob, unless you are going to be VERY disciplined and only take a 100 or so shots, the pressure to try & carry out a basic process on each image will be huge !!

If you can get out of it - for your own sanity - please do.

If not the basic DVD maker in Vista will give you a presentable show

Good luck - what ever you choose

Pete

 

[aligibbs]

Talk about giving yourself extra pressure!! Also- not sure the reasoning behind it- as they have only just "had the day" as it were- why would they want to see pictures so soon after?

 

[-Rob-]

Talk about giving yourself extra pressure!! Also- not sure the reasoning behind it- as they have only just "had the day" as it were- why would they want to see pictures so soon after?

I can understand the reasoning for it. A lot of people are often invited to the evening reception that aren't there to see the actual wedding in the day so it is nice for them to see the pictures. I still wouldn't advise doing it though.

I've just thought of another solution but I'd imagine it'd be totally unrealistic in your position. Shoot tethered with a wireless connection to a computer and have an assistant processing the images as you shoot.

 

[Steven001]

I can understand the reasoning for it. A lot of people are often invited to the evening reception that aren't there to see the actual wedding in the day so it is nice for them to see the pictures. I still wouldn't advise doing it though.

I've just thought of another solution but I'd imagine it'd be totally unrealistic in your position. Shoot tethered with a wireless connection to a computer and have an assistant processing the images as you shoot.

Maybe like you say, it's not such a good idea! I think I'll just wait till after the wedding to process the pictures. I have Photoshop but thinking about getting Lightroom for processing/organising pictures.

 

[swanseamale47]

Try Picassa for the slideshow, put the pics on a laptop (or whatever) load them into picassa then just pick out 30-40 and let them run as a slideshow, picassa also has basic editing tools so you could tweek a few if needed.
I'd suggest you only copy off the cards rather than cut, then you still have all the pics for proper editing at a later stage (and as a backup in case your laptop dies )

 

[Nigey]

I am a tad late with this I know, but I had the same situation at a wedding on Friday, I shot 730 images in the day, all I did was simply use lightroom to import them to both my laptop and my back up drive at the same time, key word them and create a new catalogue. I then made a slide show of all the images, yes all of them, no processing nothing.

I used a projector to show them on the ceiling of the room. For sure there were some "no hopers" in there but it really didn't matter. The B&G loved it as did the guests. I think sometimes we assume the guests are like some of the people on here who pixel peep at every opportunity and don't simply look at a photo and say "hey, I like that"

I was asked for my card about half a dozen times and looks like I have another booking as a direct result. SO it works well. I am not saying I would want to do that every time but I think its not as bad as most people think.

While this one won't make it to the album or even the viewing I think you can see the impact it can have.