A Day Late

Some people have been asking me when/where are the wedding pictures. Well…unfortunately the photographer didn’t give us digital copies of the pictures. We only have one set of little 3 x 4 prints. Apparently we’re supposed to choose the ones we like and “order” the sizes we want. Is it just me or does this sounds like an out dated way to do things? Wouldn’t it be better to charge a flat fee for all the negatives or digital images? Or at least let us purchase the rights and abilities to reproduce the select photos we do like?

Ordering reprints of the ones we like now is fine, but what’s going to happen in ten years when we’d like copies and the photographer is dead, moved or who knows what? A wedding day is easily one of the most important days in someones life, shouldn’t they have the right to reproduce the memories of that day if they need or want to? I’ve taken many pictures over the last few years. Vacations, interesting things I’ve seen, all sorts of pictures. All of which I have the ability to have printed anytime I like. But my wedding pictures? Nope…I’ve got to track some guy down, who lives on the other side of the continent (to make things worse) and order my pictures from him. If this is the price of “professional” photography I don’t think I have much use for it. If I had it to do over again, I think I would have had a bunch of people snapping pictures with digital cameras. Out of all the results I’m sure we could extract a few good ones to remember the day. Sure they might not be as high a quality but at least we’d have the ability to save and reproduce them if our prints get damaged or destroyed.

Enough complaining…if I can get access to a scanner in the near future, maybe I’ll try and scan a few of the 4 x 3 prints in.

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