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04/19/2012 05:08:56 AM · #1
In Japan it's quite common that a bride/groom will have a variety of choices as far as different packages go. Almost all of them include a DVD of all the edited photos. A friend of mine got her's and it had something like 800 full res files. That and an album cost her roughly 2000USD. Another friend who got married in January still hasn't received her photos but she said she was suppose to get soft copies and an album, all for 1300USD.

I asked a local photographer why they do this as they could not offer prints. His answer was "We live in a digital age, if we don't offer them the soft copies we don't hear the end of it. It's easier in the end." That was it. I asked if he worried about color management and the 'what if' scenario of a bride bringing her DVD to a printers and not getting the right colors. He said they'd never had issues with people coming back complaining.

I'm curious as to the rest of the world...do you offer soft copies?
04/19/2012 12:42:51 PM · #2
I don't know about *offering* soft copies, but if I *receive* a soft copy I return the glass to the seller for a refund! ;-)

OK, so seriously, I think that this is becoming more and more prevalent. I can see big risks for the photographer, as they will never know how well their work is being printed/presented. They are also forgoing all future income from the event.
I'm not sure what the answer is, whether there is a strategy that will please the customer while providing some protection to the photographer. I'm not in this position, so I don't really know how I'd handle it, but I think this conflict is only going to get worse going forward.
04/19/2012 07:20:48 PM · #3
Personally, I think the traditional business model, where the photographer controlled the reproduction, the prints, is about to be utterly kaput. It made some sort of sense when it wasn't easy at all to get printing, but in the digital age it's just not reasonable. I see "soft copies" becoming the norm.

R.
04/19/2012 07:36:26 PM · #4
My wedding photographer had various packages. Some packages included dvd of digital copies. Most all packages forced you to spend x dollars on printed material. She was really good but packages were pretty expensive.

Message edited by author 2012-04-19 19:40:07.
04/19/2012 07:46:48 PM · #5
My wedding photographer only had one package, $500/hour and you got the soft copy of every photo he took.
The DVD had two folders, edited and non-edited, with around 100 photos per hour in the edited folder.

When I did my only wedding so far, I followed the same model.

CS
04/19/2012 08:02:39 PM · #6
In our studio we give several choices: traditional book with photos printed and attached on it, digital book and only soft copies. Until now only once a couple asked only for soft copies (and I must stay they were two strange guys...). In any case we always give with the book a dvd with hi-res soft copies. Other photographers give a soft copy, but with low-res photos.
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