The Digital Age
Digital technology has made photography an art that is readily accessible to almost everyone. There is no need for hazardous chemicals and darkrooms to develop photos. All you need is a good photo printer or a trip to a photo kiosk, and you can crop and edit your own images in a snap.
The digital age has made it easier than ever to take, process, and edit photos. Anyone with a decent camera and a computer can create some beautiful photographs. However, make sure you hire a professional to capture your images perfectly for your wedding. This is one area you shouldn't skimp on. You can't go back and recapture the moment.
In addition to hiring a fabulous photographer for your great green wedding, get friends and family involved to make sure every aspect of your big day is captured for you to remember. Remind everyone to bring along their cameras. Encourage tech-savvy friends to get creative with photos and prints. Have some switch to black and white or sepia camera settings to get interesting and dramatic photos of your wedding day.
Make sure your wedding photographer is on the same green page as you by offering digital proofs and online viewing and ordering. Make sure nothing gets printed except what you specifically choose.
If you want the convenience of single-use cameras at your wedding, consider a camera rental service such as CameraRenter (www.camerarenter.com). You choose how many digital cameras you would like to rent, and they come in the mail. Guests take photos with the cameras on your big day, and then you send the cameras back. CameraRenter creates a custom website with all your photos and videos for easy viewing, sharing, downloading, and print ordering. It also offers options such as custom-created movie DVDs of your event.
Before digital technology made digital proofs a reality, every single photo was printed out for the couple to view and pick from. The bare minimum number of photos a wedding photographer takes at a wedding is around 500. Most photographers take well over 1,000 photos per wedding. If a couple decided not to purchase their proofs, all those photographs were dumped in the garbage.
