What happens after the weddings day..
You get up aching from the marathon that was ran the day before, have something to eat and think about the images that were taken the day before. Off to the office for 09:00 and then load up the images into a preview so you can view them all.
Starting with putting all the images in order and folders in the correct place. Then create a folder for the selected images that I like and move this around until all the images have been viewed. By this time its around 16:00 and time for lunch. A quick slide show of the image which have been selected and then its time for post processing. Each image is checked and simply corrected - this take around 1 minute per image - from the 500 that have been selected - Then these go into photoshop for retouching and editing. This varies on what the images are of. and can range from 1 minute to 2 hours for each image.

The selected and corrected images are then loaded and resized and saved for a web site section. this take a few minutes to do as its automated. by now its around 22:00 and time to go home. You get into bed dreaming about what image goes with what and how you can change things on certain images.

You wake up around 8 o'clock and head into the office with the ideas from last night and get started, Half way through the day your ready and re do the images ready for the web site. Then spend the rest of the day building the web site and loading it to servers, by around 18:40 its finished and you send off a email to the bride and groom with its location then rush home to put evelyn to bed - my daughter - .

You start building the slide show with the images the next day getting the best music that suites the day and you have licence's to use or go a buy some more. This takes around 5 hours to complete and go to DVD.

You then sit back and wait for the B&G to return from honey moon.

When the Bride and Groom re turn....
When the B&G return they read the mail and go to the web site to order there images from the package and any additional images that they want. The order comes with a few montage images which have to be made, this takes around 1 hour to finish. If there are framed images, this take a few days to get back from the framer as well as the labs to send the prints, so 5 days later they are all ready to visit the B&G.
Most things are previewed, so there is a preview to the albums and the prints, if there are any changes they are previewed and once conformation has been made, the albums are ordered (or prints) The albums take around 10 days some take up to 3 weeks depending on the album and the time of the year.

Once the visit has been arranged the slide show in shown or preview book or gallery, and all the emotions can be heard from all the family which has gathered especially to see them - uncle johns there making comments how he's got the same images - well john you did follow me around all day - Then the Prints are revealed, everyone is ooh, and Ah and remark on the quality of the images. uncle john asks why his images did look so good as he has the top of the range camera 11 MP and they don't look anything like this - My smug reply is that my 6 MP camera is a professional camera and its better..** technical details** ah he reply's I must get one of them - I then check that everyone is happy and everyone got what they want. At time times its really like I am an extend part of the family we sit and chat like old friends.

Then when I get back to the office I get some of the images from the web site and place then on to the gallery of this site so that new clients can review the work.

images which are selected placed onto a DVD for slide show viewing, this take a few hours because the music has to match the photos need to be placed in the correct order and then the title and credits have to be made. I think that they can take a day to finish.
Then its just sit and wait for the client to select the images that they want, I find it funny that people will always order the full amount of photos that were with the package, no more and no less. when I offered 60 with one package people would take weeks to select the 40-50 then really find it hard to select the remainder, often leading to me waiting for weeks or months for the order to be completed. This isn't good I have now changed the terms to press people to order within 40 days of the wedding, so that I dont have the stress of waiting and risk of losing the photos in some freak accident.

So now you know, A wedding photographer doesn't work for 6 hours, prints the images and walks off with your money. It is a long day with a few other added days after to get everything ready, it also take away time with my daughter and family and even just plain and simple sleep.