How do you do this?

LarissaAnn · January 2011

So I did my first run-through of our wedding photos, and narrowed it down to 484 good shots.

Seriously.

A lot of them are duplicates of the same or similar shot that I can't offhand decide which I prefer. But a lot of them are just great party shots.

How the hell do you narrow it down enough for an album?! This is crazy. Crazy, I tell you!

Vikki2pay · January 2011

We had a little over 1000 edited shots that our photog gave us and she weeded out the bad shots or the ones that didn't make the cut, and after about a million hours I picked though them all and came out with this as my finished project.

Wedding Album

maynard1978 · January 2011

This is exactly why I haven't done our album yet. lol....

LarissaAnn · January 2011

Ah, doing the Shutterfly thing was smart. Then you can tailor the pages based on the number of photos you want on them. We might do one of those for our friends' photos & afterparty photos in addition to the pro album.

But while we have the CD of pro photos and own copyright so we can do what we like with them, they don't get retouched until we order the album and/or prints. So they're unedited right now.

It's fun, though. Going through them reminded me how much I loved our photographer, how much fun we had that day, and how much we were cracking up. And it got me listening to our wedding song on Youtube again.

Now to narrow them down more...

Vikki2pay · January 2011

That stinks they aren't edited, but you're creative and you will find the perfect ones. Our photog knew we weren't doing an album so she edited them all and gave them to us on CD.

I love doing the shutterfly albums, we did one's for both sets of parents and one for our flower girl, and I love the way they came out, and yes you can tailor them the way you want, so we changed the pictures around for each album.

alyssa44 · January 2011

You just gotta go with your gut.

Luckily, my photographer helped me a ton with this. We had about 1,500 wedding pictures. She told me to pick the ones I wanted for my album and then she can help narrow it down. It made it SO much easier for me.

janda309 · January 2011

Something that helped me was thinking of it as a story line. I started with the pre-ceremony pictures, ceremony, then reception. I just picked what I liked and didn't care about numbers then. After that was done, I went back through each category and looked at what I had and what I really wanted. Eventually, I narrowed it down to 150-200 for the album (at least I think that's what it was).

LarissaAnn · January 2011

Thanks.

I'm doing the same thing with storyline, which the photos pretty much follow anyway.

And as something of an amateur photographer myself I picked based on facial expressions and composition. I just went through my list and highlighted the 39 that I absolutely, positively want in the album. E used to be a photo retoucher for the retouching agency that does Maxim magazine, so he looks more at detail than I do, and he'll narrow it down further from the remainin list.

We had a choice of 4 or 5 types of albums, from very traditional, with mounted prints (not digital) to panoramic or the magazine style. We chose a semi-traditional version, with the thick pages & mounted-looking photos, but in digital, and we chose, for starters, the smallest size, which has a 75 photo limit. But we've got the option to upgrade to a larger album based on the number of photos we actually want, so I'm not worried about going over. It can go up to 150 images all together. I'm sure we'll be fine with that. I just had no idea how many we'd want, so I started small.

It's not gonna be easy picking one for the 11x14 print for the living room either!

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