Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Will You Be Getting Your Wedding Photos on A USB Flash Drive?


If you're planning to get married this year and you're using the services of a professional wedding photographer then you might want to think about the best way to take delivery of your wedding day portfolio.

When the day is over and all you have left are some fabulous memories (and hopefully your partner!) then it's your photo's that will help bring the day back to life and help you enjoy and celebrate the day all over again with your family and friends.

Tradition dictates your wedding photos are supplied in a professionally produced Album that reflects the day. Most specialist wedding photographers will have their own portfolio of Albums that you can choose from with price breaks to reflect the quality and size of the Album. But, given that most photographers now use digital cameras for their shoots and then edit the digital images after the day it's not unusual to be offered a CD or DVD with your wedding photographs on as well (typically for an extra fee).

The digital images supplied on the CD/DVD will typically be high resolution.jpg that are viewable on most PC's and Macs. Because they are "high resolution" images each image can be quite a large file and this is one of the reasons why photographers have historically chosen CD's and DVD's over other products like USB flash Drives. Flash drives (whilst available with large amounts of storage) have been comparatively much more expensive than a CD and it's been easier to get hold of CD's and DVD's locally and print a label for it before they hand it out to their clients.

But, things are changing:

  • Storage capacities on USB flash drives are increasing all the time and a typical USB flash drive has between 4GB - 16GB of storage - more than enough to store hundreds of high quality photographs on!

  • Costs are falling - only a year ago an 8GB USB flash drive would have costs around 瞿15, today it's less than half of this.

  • Less PC's and Macs are shipping with a CD or DVD player because the technology is now considered "old" and unfashionable.

  • Data transfer speeds for USB flash drives have taken a massive step forward with the introduction of USB 3.0 (which also works with PC's running USB 1.x and 2.0) - this means it will be quicker for photographers to load their images onto a flash drive and it'll be faster for you to view your photos.

  • Professional Wedding Photographers are gradually moving towards printed USB flash drives in snazzy presentation (gift boxes) - these look so much better than a CD/DVD and they make great gifts if you wanted to order a few to hand out to friends and family. You might even think about using some of them as wedding favours (pre-loaded with images of your courtship, things about you, the hen and stag night photos etc.)

If, like lots of couples you're looking to post your wedding photos on Social Networking sites like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter then you'll definitely want your photos supplied digitally. If you're going to get them supplied digitally then don't be surprised to be offered them on a printed USB flash drive.

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