How To Select Your Photo Session Images
One of the most likely things our clients say after any photography session is that they are having a difficult time making a selection(s). After a few images taken to be honest we have a difficult time selecting an image or two for samples or images for the web. This could be for family portraits, business portraits or even weddings. We feel your pain, it could be difficult to select one image over another especially when you love them all. But we have our secrets and today we are here to share them with you.
It can be a daunting task to cut down on a few hundred and sometimes a few thousand images. But the key is to put them into smaller groups so that the task is not as difficult. When you are ready to select images from your wedding for your album you can break them into 3 separate groups. These groups can help you tell the story of your wedding day through images and these will be shared forever within your family.
First group are the most haves these can be the images that are your absolute favorites. These will make up the larger images within your albums and in may cases will be all the images in your album. This depends of course on how many are in the must have group and how many are in the second group. The second group are the scene setters that help tell the story of your wedding day. This can be the decor, props and or any other objects that help tell the story. This group could also be candid moments the show family and friends interacting at your wedding. The final group are the ones you like but do not love. These are good to keep for yourselves but to add them to your album will be a little too many images.
For all of the other sessions that we photograph the selecting can be a little less involved but the process is the same. You need to group the images you love and the images you like but not love from one another. This makes everything a whole lot easier for you in selecting the best images from your family portrait session or your business portrait session. Now if you are sitting there with 15 favorites and really only need one large portrait of your family on your wall you could do one of two things. Make a large wall collage of all of your favorite images and showcase it on one large wall in your home. Or and this is our favorite, take those 15 favorite images and put a large wall portrait on each and every wall in your home.
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