AboutJohn Wilson Expertise Over 25 years specializing exclusively in professional wedding photography. I can answer most questions relating directly to wedding photography concerning the business, film, digital, traditional & digital labs, marketing, effects, pricing & packaging, shooting outdoors and in-studio with multiple flash, color management and creating magazine style wedding albums. I can't answer questions regarding other fields of photography. I am a full-time self-employed wedding/portrait photographer. I can comprehensively answer most questions regarding portrait and wedding photography. I've operated a custom color and black & white photo lab processing films and photographic prints. I now shoot digital exclusively and process in Photoshop CS3.
Experience I have over 25 years experience working as a portrait/wedding photographer.
Education/Credentials School of hard knocks. Self-study. Purchasing all books I can find about portrait and wedding photography and attending photography seminars over the years.
Expert: John Wilson Date: 9/20/2007 Subject: wedding albums
Question Are there any photographers who sell their pictures on cd and let brides worry about printing? Also, is there a place where brides can buy nice wedding albums cheaper than buying from photographers?
Answer Hi Sara,
Thanks for your questions. You do have several options. There are more and more wedding photographers who do provide their work on DVDs. By cost-effectively selling their fair priced work on DVDs, all wedding photographers should be on the lookout for new technologies. I believe the day is SOON COMING when a bride will be able to purchase a slim LCD WEDDING BOOK . She simply inserts her DVD in the edge, opens the book and on the two facing LCD "pages" she will be able to view her images in high-definition complete with stereo sound and with random and interactive touch-screen magazine style layouts and slide shows! So who needs photo labs & album packages? They also weigh less and are less bulky. Also great for videographers! Since both photographers AND videographers will benefit as well as the bride, sales of LCD Wedding Albums should provide a reasonable price. They may also be used for family and other subject matter display. You may read more about the advantages to photographers and brides for DVD packages on my website at www.weddingphotographics.net/faq.htm#Info
Until LCD Wedding Albums reach the market, you may puchase traditional wedding albums and the new book-style albums from a variety of album companies which even serve brides exclusively. Some are listed on my website at www.weddingphotographics.net/magazinestyle.htm
Thank you for your questions. Hope I've provided some useful information.
