Photography Tip - Digital Media – Your wedding images

Just think about the changes in music in 50 years: Vinyl records, eight tracks, cassette players, CD, iPod nano, to iPod with video. You can hardly find a record player, eight track players and most car manufactures are phasing out offering cassette players in new vehicles. Who would have thought you could upload personal video to You Tube in minutes? What will be next? Ever stop to think about changing technology in relationship to your wedding photography?

No one shoots with film anymore. Do you look through your parent’s pictures and find slides or old Polaroid’s? Do you even remember a floppy disk? That was the standard from 1980 to 1989 …9 whole years. The first CD came out in 1983! This is around the year most of you were born.

Just about every photographer will offer you the all of your high-resolution images on a DVD because so many are taken that they will not fit on a single CD. New computers all come with a DVD. What will be next?

It distresses us when we survey our brides and we ask them what they have done with their DVD of images. Many will tell us that they printed off a couple to frame. What? Do not think that current technology will stay the same! Make an album or have your photographer make an album. There are so many album options available. You can make small books on Snapfish.com or Kodak.com. The new composite albums your photographer can produce are simply stunning. They are not inexpensive, but are seriously worth the investment.

What if you let your DVD sit on a shelf and some day, your children are looking for a player just to see them? This may be the only thing you can do with a floppy disk today. What about DVDs in the future?

Do something with those important photographs....... please.