The Digital Wedding Album Is Here!

The digital wedding album is perhaps the best example of how digital photography has revolutionised wedding photography. There are advantages and disadvantages with digital albums, which we'll have a look at now.

Advantages

You no longer have to choose 40 or 60 photos to go into a traditional wedding album.

Most wedding photographers now either design their own album layouts on computer or use some form of design service. This may be an independent business or an extra service provided by an album manufacturer.

This means you can have more photos in your album, so you don't have to agonise over which to leave out, and you'll most likely get a much more creative album. For example, photos can be different sizes and placed anywhere on the page, rather than being one size, one photo to a page.

Some people achieve some pretty amazing results within their album planning software, for example by adding graphics, border effects or text. Again, making a really individual and personal album.

Disadvantages

More photos in your album, means more photos for you to buy. Most photographers include a set number of photos for your album in their upfront fee, but you may well want more in your album.

Album planning is another new task for photographers that arrived with digital (on top of photo-editing). As this takes extra time, photographer's fees have to reflect this.

(There's also the opportunity cost - i.e. instead of being able to shoot portraits during the week, a wedding photographer now has to do all this extra computer work).

To summarise, a digital wedding album gives you a much more contemporary and creative album than you would have had before digital technology. But as a result of the extra time and skill involved in producing them, they're still a fairly high-end product.

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