Do Photographers give you all the photos ?

We often get asked this question and the short answer is no.

Generally as a process, our workflow is to take all of the photos taken from all cameras on the Wedding Day and transfer them to the computer for review and editing.

The initial work is then to cull all photos that are of no use, this may be that they're completely out of focus, or duplicates of photos that you actually want to keep. This process would normally take the initial photo load (which could be around 5,000 photos) right the way down to around 1,000.

From that set, we take the remaining photos into the editing software (we use Adobe Lightroom Classic for editing photos) and hawk through them, picking out the absolute best of the best and prepare them for editing. This can often happen in 2 or 3 complete passes to make sure we don't miss any shots that might actually be secret winners and also as a duo, we see things slightly differently (from an alternative perspective).

Once we have finished editing and re-touching, we will leave the select photos and have a final trim down and tweak before leaving them to settle - much like a freshly grilled fillet steak should rest for several minutes to regain it's form.

The end result, is a final list of epic photos that make up your Wedding Day Collection.

These photos are the ones that get sent to you to savour. However, we do generally keep some of the photos that don't quite make it for a short period of time, this is just in case you ask us if we did have a particular shot that didn't make the cut and sometimes we do and can add edit it and add it in. Mostly, this is just 1 or 2 photos and for a specific reason.

So, to conclude; Do Photographers give you all the photos ? Then the short answer is no but by design.

This ties in with another article about 'How Many Photos do you need for a Wedding?'