Wedding Photo Galleries

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Every one of my clients receives an online gallery for viewing, sharing, printing, and downloading their wedding photos. I used a few gallery systems before I found one that I really loved. I had some specific criteria: large and beautiful photo display, digital download capabilities, zipped downloads of client favorites (for album selections), the option to either self-fulfill or do third-party fulfillment, branding customization, self-marketing campaigns and client communication, and finally, ease of client use. In 2011 I found all of these features in Zenfolio.

There are several fun things that my clients can do with their galleries:

  • Share their wedding gallery with friends & family
  • Mark and share their favorites and then send a link to those photos to friends and family
  • View their photos as a full-screen slideshow
  • Select their album picks and send a link to me for album designing
  • Purchase professional prints and digital downloads for themselves or as gifts

And there are a bunch of cool things that I can do:

  • Upload galleries directly from Lightroom
  • Download entire galleries on my iPad, optimized for mobile display, for showing at client meetings
  • Have off-site backup and storage for my high-resolution files. If I ever lost a file (or was just too lazy to go through my hard drives to find it), I could download the high-res photo directly from the gallery.
  • Provide vendors requesting photos with a quick and easy way to search for and download web-res files with a copyright release for online business use (yeah, this is a HUGE time saver)
  • Offer professional quality prints & third-party fulfillment from Miller’s and MpixPro (to name a few). Yes, that means I just view their oder online and check for cropping and then zap — it’s printed and delivered directly to them in a few days. If I want to provide clients with something different from my other favorite printer – ProDPI – I can offer those products through Zenfolio and just self-fulfill.

And yes, compared with the fees I was paying for previous gallery systems, Zenfolio wins in that department too. By a long shot.

If you decide you’d like to try Zenfolio, here’s my referral code: F1N-Q7T-QJN. If you’d like to view a complete gallery and see how I set these up, here’s a sample.

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Ritz-Carlton Boston Wedding ~ Angie + Brian

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Angie and Brian were recently married at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. These are some of my favorite photographs of their wedding day.

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Deborah Zoe - these are super fun Lisa:)March 20, 2013 – 10:51 am

David @ AiP Creative Photography - I LOVE your style. It’s so fresh and clean. The bokeh is splendid, and the candids are perfectly captured.March 24, 2013 – 1:51 am

Vacation

Monday, March 4, 2013

Last week I visited my family in Florida. I brought my “big” camera — the same one I use to photograph weddings — but I didn’t even take it out. Instead, I had fun with my iPhone and Instagram. So these are my vacation photos, all iPhone and all Instagram.

Back to work! I have a wedding this weekend and lots of catching up to do.

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Lauren + Andy ~ Langham Hotel Wedding

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Sometimes it’s hard to select which photographs to blog, especially after I’ve been staring at the images for weeks. I thought it might be fun to have other photographers pick the photos, and asked my friends Li and Channing to select the photographs for this post.

Li and Channing went through the gallery of over 600 images and each chose their favorite storytelling photographs. There was some overlap, but they also made different picks — different choices from each other and different choices than I may have made. It’s so interesting to see how people view events differently and pick up on certain images. Having someone else go through photographs can help me see an event in a new way.

This blog post is a compilation of the images that Li and Channing thought best told the story of Lauren and Andy’s wedding at Gate of Heaven Church and the Langham Hotel in Boston.

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Amanda - These are stunning! I love the emotion captured, my favorite is the walking down the isle shot. Such a great catch!!March 11, 2013 – 2:39 pm

Janet Polcari - Beautiful, beautiful pictures of.a beautiful, beautiful wedding. Janet and Ralph PolcariMarch 13, 2013 – 10:40 am

klc - That is how every bride should be – TOTALLY PSYCHED and blissfully happy. Great photos, as always, and such a fun idea to have others choose the photos!March 20, 2013 – 10:56 am

Announcing: One-On-One Photography Mentoring

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wedding photography is as much a community as it is a business. In fact, I’ve found wedding photographers to be the most supportive group of peers with whom I’ve ever worked. The sharing that happens among photographers has been so important for growing wedding photography into the thriving and creative field that it is today.

I receive many requests from photographers, artists, and students wanting to learn more about wedding photography. Starting in Spring 2013, I’ll provide a limited number of one-on-one mentoring sessions to beginner and advanced-beginner level photographers. I’ll share anything you want to know about how I photograph, find and work with wonderful clients, and successfully run a thriving full-time wedding photography business. 

Each two-hour session will be held at my office space in Boston and tailored to your specific photography development and learning goals. You choose the areas on which you’d like to focus. Topics can include:

Business & Nitty-Gritty

  • Building a wedding photography business from the ground-up
  • Basic photography skills
  • Gear
  • Establishing an online presence
  • Print sales and album design
  • Wedding photography workflow
  • Getting published

Voice & Vision

  • Portfolio building & curation
  • Defining your style
  • Storytelling through photographs
  • Connecting with clients through imagery

A few weeks after your session we’ll have a Skype follow-up to see how you’re doing with implementing what you’ve learned. Once again, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get support for developing as a wedding photographer.

Connecting/Sign-Up

If you’d like to get on the mailing list for these sessions, you can sign up here.  I’ll be in touch with you via email with details and pricing. Sessions start April 2013.

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