How many photos are you delivering to bride and groom?

11 years 10 months ago #235272 by Cathy Kadolph
If this question has been asked please excuse me, I'm home sick today and just making small talk here. Let's say you shoot a wedding and take 2000 photos, how many of those are you giving to bride and groom? Actually I would be curious how many photos do most wedding photographers take on average, THEN point out how many of those are you giving to the bride and groom.

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11 years 10 months ago #235301 by Darrell
I take 500+ and give the couple around 100, depending on the amount of family pics.. They only get to see the ones I have edited.

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11 years 10 months ago - 11 years 10 months ago #235434 by Henry Peach
The "average" may not be very useful. How photographers work varies all over the place. Some people think taking more than a couple hundred exposures is too much. Others want to sort through several thousand pics.

I don't have a quantity guarantee, but in 350+ weddings I always seem to make about 1000 exposures in 8 hours of wedding coverage. Sometimes it's 800, sometimes more like 1200, but usually around 1000. After editing I almost always end up with between 400 and 450 finished photographs. Editing and processing takes me about 30 hours.
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11 years 10 months ago #235473 by Vahrenkamp
:agree: there is no set average, really depends on how many of the photos are winners after editing. I would venture on saying somewhere between 150 and 200 shots as a round about figure for me.


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