On the topic of photos...

CrazyCatLady3

So I just got my pro wedding pics back, (just the link to online gallery).  I will post some when I get them on disk; right now I just have the link to where they are copyright protected online.

Just as an informal poll, about how many images did you get back from your photographer and of those, how many did you like? how many did you hate?

I got a little over 1,000 shots back and out of those there are definitely some I love (definitely enough for the 50-75 she told me to pick for my album), but there were about 100 that I was like wincing in looking at because I hated the way I looked.  Most of those were close up shots of me getting my makeup done or shots from the back where I didn't like the way my butt looked).  I am asking the photog to take down some of those so when I share the online gallery with family I don't have to worry about people looking at them. :P  I was just wondering where I fall on the spectrum or if I am being hypercritical.  

LabLove86

Sadly the link is not there But I am also overly critical of myself in photos. Others always think I look better than I think I look.

Senecaf

My photos didn't take that many. Portrait photog-new to doing weddings. He probably got 200-300. I found I didn't like a lot of them. One he thought was good I felt like I had such weird posture. And my faces were not right. Amd then I started to get all critical of my chin.

So no, I wouldn't say you are being hypercritical. It's probably unnecessary though. I'm sure they are gorgeous!

chibiyui

I ended up getting a little over 900 images. Most were good, a few have closed eyes, not great, etc. I'd say I probably love love about 200, and about 100 i'm like. ick. I'm making my own photo album, and I'm actually having a hard time culling! The site I'm using allows for 100 pages in a photo album, and I'm like, a 160 total. Minor threadjack. Is it weird to have 2 wedding photo albums?

CrazyCatLady3

No, I haven't posted the link yet.  I will come back and post some specific pics when I get ones I can upload.  

OK, so it sounds like i am being totally normal then.

chibiyui no i don't think it's weird to have 2 albums.  I will have the ones I get from my photog and then I am going to make one myself (got a free one from shutterfly for filling out vendor reviews on WW).

jynxiie

My wedding isn't until October... But for my engagement pictures he took 300. I liked about 50% of them... I just didn't like how I looked in the other ones due to positions. Some of the ones my photographer loved I hated as well, so you're not alone there haha.

KytchynWitche

My wedding also isn't until October. I got 40 or so from the photog for our e-shoot, and I liked most of them. Like 35 of the 40. The ones I didn't like were the ones that showed my arm flags, and really there's not a whole heck of a lot the photog could do about the fact that I'm overweight.

Peaseblossom55

We had two photographers and got 1500 shots in total, I love how I looked in the photos they took so much and I usually hate how I look in photos.   There are probably less than 200 of those that I don't like.  Some aren't even of me.

Bubblegum5586

My photographer gave me about 500 of the 2000 she took and I was less then impressed. I inquired about specific pictures that I thought were missing so then she sent me about another 100.

Again, less then thrilled and if it wasn't for mt awesome video that truly captured the day I would likely be a lot more upset. But I do have at least 100 to make a photo album and print a few out to hang up. ANd honestly isn't that all you really need? (I have to keep reminding my self that)

JennyColada

We just did e-photos and got back about 50 pictures. There are 5-7 that I LOVE and the rest is about 50/50 actively dislike versus "meh".

FutureMrsN3312

I got 2,100 images back.  I liked a majority of them.  There were some that I thought I looked weird or fat, etc and other people loved the exact same pic.  I think its just me being super critical of me.

ETA: We need about 80 images for our album.  I have no idea how I'm going to narrow it down because I like so many of them.

Maggie0829

I got about 1,000 images.  I liked the majority of them and surprisingly was happy with the way I looked in most of them since I am typically critical of myself in pictures.  I didn't do an album because I didn't want to spend that much money for and I just haven't put together one myself because I am lazy  But I have put together parent albums and posted photos on FB and I used quite a few. Some of the detailed shots and large random group shots (not posed just large pictures of everyone at the reception mingling around) I haven't used.  I do find myself going back to a handful of pictures to use now and again so they are most likely my favorites.

mschristie123

bubblegum1309 said:

My photographer gave me about 500 of the 2000 she took and I was less then impressed. I inquired about specific pictures that I thought were missing so then she sent me about another 100.

Again, less then thrilled and if it wasn't for mt awesome video that truly captured the day I would likely be a lot more upset. But I do have at least 100 to make a photo album and print a few out to hang up. ANd honestly isn't that all you really need? (I have to keep reminding my self that)

I had a similar experience. Our professional photog and second shooter took 2,000+ pictures and we only received about 470. I was very disapointed and contacted her to get additional pictures from the reception (almost all our pictures were portraits/ceremony pics and only about 50 from the reception). She only gave us about 20 additional pictures, which was slightly annoying. She's my dad's cousin though, so I didn't want to stir up any family drama by continuing to demand pics from her.

Maggie0829

mschristie123 said:

bubblegum1309 said:

My photographer gave me about 500 of the 2000 she took and I was less then impressed. I inquired about specific pictures that I thought were missing so then she sent me about another 100.

Again, less then thrilled and if it wasn't for mt awesome video that truly captured the day I would likely be a lot more upset. But I do have at least 100 to make a photo album and print a few out to hang up. ANd honestly isn't that all you really need? (I have to keep reminding my self that)

I had a similar experience. Our professional photog and second shooter took 2,000+ pictures and we only received about 470. I was very disapointed and contacted her to get additional pictures from the reception (almost all our pictures were portraits/ceremony pics and only about 50 from the reception). She only gave us about 20 additional pictures, which was slightly annoying. She's my dad's cousin though, so I didn't want to stir up any family drama by continuing to demand pics from her.

Was there something in both of your contracts that stated that you would only get X number of pictures regardless of how many the photog took?

In this day and age where everything is digital, not getting all the pictures seems rather ridiculous to me.

CrazyCatLady3

Maggie0829 said:

mschristie123 said:

bubblegum1309 said:

My photographer gave me about 500 of the 2000 she took and I was less then impressed. I inquired about specific pictures that I thought were missing so then she sent me about another 100.

Again, less then thrilled and if it wasn't for mt awesome video that truly captured the day I would likely be a lot more upset. But I do have at least 100 to make a photo album and print a few out to hang up. ANd honestly isn't that all you really need? (I have to keep reminding my self that)

I had a similar experience. Our professional photog and second shooter took 2,000+ pictures and we only received about 470. I was very disapointed and contacted her to get additional pictures from the reception (almost all our pictures were portraits/ceremony pics and only about 50 from the reception). She only gave us about 20 additional pictures, which was slightly annoying. She's my dad's cousin though, so I didn't want to stir up any family drama by continuing to demand pics from her.

Was there something in both of your contracts that stated that you would only get X number of pictures regardless of how many the photog took?

In this day and age where everything is digital, not getting all the pictures seems rather ridiculous to me.

Usually the photogs will cull out the bad shots and trash them because they don't want those out there with their names on them if they are bad.  That's why you only get a fraction back.  I estimate that my photogs took 2000-3000 shots and we got 1000.  

ohmrs2014

We got back close to 1500 photos and because of that we haven't even begun thinking about an album yet because there are so many to chose from.  The only ones I didn't like were some of the ones where I'm getting ready.  I'm going to be honest, I wore a tank top and flannel pants because I didn't want to spend money on those "bride" robes and "bridesmaids" tanks.  We were all comfy, but then I realized why people spend money on them, they look better in photos LOL.

mschristie123

Maggie0829 said:

mschristie123 said:

bubblegum1309 said:

My photographer gave me about 500 of the 2000 she took and I was less then impressed. I inquired about specific pictures that I thought were missing so then she sent me about another 100.

Again, less then thrilled and if it wasn't for mt awesome video that truly captured the day I would likely be a lot more upset. But I do have at least 100 to make a photo album and print a few out to hang up. ANd honestly isn't that all you really need? (I have to keep reminding my self that)

I had a similar experience. Our professional photog and second shooter took 2,000+ pictures and we only received about 470. I was very disapointed and contacted her to get additional pictures from the reception (almost all our pictures were portraits/ceremony pics and only about 50 from the reception). She only gave us about 20 additional pictures, which was slightly annoying. She's my dad's cousin though, so I didn't want to stir up any family drama by continuing to demand pics from her.

Was there something in both of your contracts that stated that you would only get X number of pictures regardless of how many the photog took?

In this day and age where everything is digital, not getting all the pictures seems rather ridiculous to me.

Yeah the contract said 400-800 so we were on the low end, but within the terms of agreement. Honestly, before the wedding, I had no idea how much/how little 400-800 would be. On paper that number is overwhelming! But not so much in reality. But we have enough great pics to have framed and put into albums, and that's what matters.

AprilH81

Engagement photos (2 hr shoot I think): USB with 70 pictures that the photographers liked, I loved about 15 and liked another 10ish.  The others were angles that I felt were unflattering, or one of us had kind of squinty eyes or something where I was being overly critical.

Wedding (2 photographers, 7 hrs of coverage): USB with about 900 pictures.  I would say there were about 30 pictures that I ***LOVED*** and another 100 or so that I really liked.  

I did the album myself on Shutterfly and the first draft was 120 pages (12x12 pages, some two-page spreads, many multi-picture pages).  I was eventually able to cut it down to about 75 pages...

Our photographer didn't put any pictures of me online in my underwear (she took pictures of us actually getting dressed, not staged pictures) but those were on the USB drive.

Cookie Pusher

Of the absurd number of pics the two photographers got (it was well over 3k before the halfway mark of the reception and there was still the after-party), she gave me ~400 in an online gallery to download. Of those, I honestly love most of them. There's maybe 15 or 20 where I'm making stupid faces or I was just "meh" about. When we booked our main photographer, we specified that we wanted almost all candids (there's only about 20 posed shots) and that our vibe was more summer party than stuffy wedding - and they delivered.

melbenso

We had about 600 photos, including about 200 general "people having fun at the reception" photos and about 400 "wedding album photos (300ish portrait and ceremony photos, 100ish toasts/cake cutting/spotlight dance photos).  We didn't have a second shooter.

Of the 400 or so "wedding album" type photos, about 1/3 of them were ones I would consider having in a wedding album, plus 10-20 candids from the reception shots that I loved.  They all turned out beautifully, but those were my favorite.  Our photograph suggested we pick about 75 photos for the album, so we have some narrowing down to do.