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I've got my first wedding reception at the weekend. The couple are friends and cant afford a photographer for the reception as well as one for the wedding. Strange you might say, but they are getting married at Gretna Green and the photographer is part of the package.

I have thought of doing photo sizes all in the same aspect ratio so I don't need to crop - 7.5" x 5"; 9" x 6", 12" x 8" and 15" by 10" but when I look at presentation folders and frames it seems really difficult to get them in these sizes.

What do you guys do, what sizes do you offer? Is every photo cropped, can an action do this or is it by hand for each?

If you use the same sizes as me, how do you present the pics.

Thanks

Allan
 
I don't do weddings, but for any kind of people stuff where I supply proofs and prints I offer the old school print sizes.

7x5
8x6
10x8
12x16

Each one will be cropped down when I do the process tweaks from proof level to print quality, so it's just a tiny part of the time. All proofs I do at full frame, which lets the punter see the whole image to choose from (there may be some that could crop to the right or left and they should get to choose) and keeps the initial proccessing automated and quick.
 
I have tended to use square format prints, ie 6x6, 8x8, 10x10. for portraits. albums etc.
and 8x10.

I crop each one individually so as to get the composition correct.
 
Just remember to leave a bit of a border and not crop too tight in camera. It can be quite difficult not to I know. I offer the standard sizes 7x5, 8x6 etc but I am now trying to get all clients to let me produce the full album rather than give them control. I crop most of my photos to get the best composition and eliminate things that I just couldn't at the time.

Presenting pics: currently in an online gallery with links for online purchase.
 
So don't crop too much in Camera
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Well you need to remember not to use the frame edge to edge of course. :)

When I used to be a darkroom rat in london, we had a real snooty wedding snapper for a customer. Always talking down to us "mere techie types without letters after our names". Anyway, one day she turns up at the counter almost in tears. She's sold a really expensive album package full of 10x8's but whilst shooting some large groups on the day, has gone edge to edge on the frame. She can't use 10x12's, can't crop out a load of crumbly old relatives and certainly can't reshoot.

Terrified that her reputation could be in tatters (amazing it had lasted so long really) she begged me to somehow turn a 12x 8 into a 10x8 without losign any of the shot. The work or 30 seconds or less now but not so easy then.

Wasn't easy but after lot of time and possibly more than she charged for the job, she had 12x8's on a 10x8 sheet.

Might be easier to fix now but still a good one to remember. ;)
 
Squidge it in a bit with PS (or similar). You'll distort everyone a bit obviously but if comes to losing folk off the edge or compressing the group into the cropped frame, it's a pretty clear choice.

It won't come to that though I'm sure. :)
 
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