Before and After

Before I share some “Before and After” pictures with you, I want to take you behind the scene and tell you a little bit about what we do after we get back from your beautiful wedding.

No matter how late in the evening, we will always download the pictures to check them out because we are just way too excited and cannot wait to see them! What can I say…we love pictures. After the pictures are downloaded to the computer, we immediately back them up to another hard drive and burn two separate copies on DVDs. That’s a lot of work, but we can’t imagine anything worse than losing your wedding pictures.

Next day or the day after, or whenever we are coherent enough, we will go through the thousands of pictures we took and keep the good ones — that usually takes a good 2-3 hours. We have to make sure the pictures are good enough out of the camera, otherwise we just throw them away. We want to do this step as soon as we can because afterwards we get to pick out pictures for the blog!! We know how much you all love the blog!!! Depending on the number of pictures…retouching the blog pictures could take us anywhere from 2-3 hours. We know that’s extra work we don’t have to do, but we really enjoy it since it’s so much fun. You know me, I like to show off our good work

About two weeks after the wedding, we will starting working on putting the proofs online. It takes another 2-3 hours do that; we have to double check every picture to make sure everything looks okay and are all in the right categories for you to view online. Then we pull out the email list that was filled out at the wedding and enter each one of them by hand so the couple and their families and friends get to look at them and go, “Wooo!” and “Awww!” and hopefully order a lot of pictures Depending on when the couples pick out their favorite pictures, we can then start designing the album and retouching the pictures. Album design is a whole other topic, so we’ll save that for later.

Retouching is THE major thing we do during post production. This is the most time-consuming step and that’s why it takes a while for us to deliver those albums to you all (we really appreciate your patience). We’d like to show you some examples of “Before and After” photoshop. I really like doing this because it really shows the differences. Even if the pictures are good enough straight out of the camera, they can always be touched up to be nearly perfect. This is where experience comes in to help us make it happen and it is also where we add our Serendipity flavor to the pictures.

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