Plan Your Central Florida Wedding

Why You Should Print Your Wedding Images

May 27, 2020 Orange Blossom Bride Season 2 Episode 27
Plan Your Central Florida Wedding
Why You Should Print Your Wedding Images
Show Notes Transcript

We live in such a digital world which means that in most of the photos that we take are stuff on smartphones or on a computer. Unfortunately, this often is the case with wedding photos. In this episode, we are talking about why you should consider printing your wedding images with Marjorie and Nick Durante of Sophia’s Art Photography.

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designed some parts of the day. The way that we photograph them is with that final product in mind is with that story that is gonna unfold in front of your eyes when you see all the moments of that they put together in the final product.

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Welcome to the plan. Your Central Florida Wedding Podcasts. I'm your host. Manish Mint, editor of Greater Orlando's top wedding publication, Orange Blossom Bride. I'm sure when you said yes, you had no idea you were jumping on this roller coaster. That is wedding planning goal of this podcast is to make the wedding planning process less stressful and more fun. We'll provide you with great tips and ideas, along with expert advice from some of the areas. Top wedding pros. So let's get started planning your Central Florida wedding. We live in such a digital world, which means that most of the photos that we take our stuck on a smartphone or on a computer, unfortunately, this often is the case with wedding photos. In this episode, we're talking about why you should consider printing your wedding images with Marjorie and Nick Toronto of Sofia's art photo. Marjorie and Nick are a husband and wife team of Sofia's art photo. Marjorie loves helping brides to feel relaxed about their wedding day by working closely with them on their wedding timelines and learning as much as possible about their desires for their big day. And next strongly believes that those memories have to be printed so that they can last forever. So welcome Nick and Marjorie. Thank you guys for being with us today, and we're gonna be talking about printing your images. And this is probably I would say, I've seen a little bit of an uptick in this from past, like we went through a really, really big digital phase where people weren't really bothering doing what him wedding albums. But now it's kind of coming back on trend, which is amazing because I love wedding albums. I

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think that you are very right about that. I think that when we started, it was a little bit harder Thio, even percent the idea of a wedding album, and now people are actually looking forward to see what are the final products are gonna be. So instead of like, oh, I don't want that And I was like, How is out? I'm gonna look, you know, even in the first conversations that we have Bryce and rooms,

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because there is something so much different from holding something in print rather than looking at it on a computer. So let's talk about the importance of getting your wedding images printed.

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Going back to what you said about, um, the uptick it there's actually a term for it. It's called The Lost Generation, where there's almost an entire group of people who have nothing printed that everything is on their phone or their iPad or their computer, and they have nothing printed on their walls. And we're finding that people are now starting to come back around two. Having that that analog experience having that archival experience. We tell people that the digitals air for Facebook, but the albums for you and your mom to sit on the couch and flip through and remember those moments. It's more relaxed and deliberate way, and there's something very visceral and very, very emotional about having pages to turn and pausing on the page. Now we always say, you know, your grandmother doesn't want to swipe right to look at your your your wedding photos. She wasn't gonna relax so we are seeing, especially with I think, those who are attracted to what we offer. Um, we are finding good consistency with people who come from big families, people who come from families where the mom or the grandmother is. Make sure that a family and when you go over there on the weekends, you can't help but sit in a big family room with one wall that's just filled with pictures of everybody from every possible different occasion. Uh, that's why I think we've kind of hit on, um, that idea that people really need to remember how they were brought up and kind of get back to that family feel with the photos.

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And I think that I'm a very practical point of view. Technology changes. So if you have the photos just in a certain specific way, they might know last forever in that particular way, for example, of the CDs that my no working your computer, you have like, um, a specific amount of years that those cities are gonna work. You have, like, the USB stopped working. You're not gonna be able to reach your digital photos, But as soon as those are printed. If they're printed in a quality material of quality photo bait for Equality album, they're gonna last for a long, long, long time. And going back when Nick says that the at least our experience every time that I did, we were an album, even though that the brides and grooms are working with me and that the same product, even though they have seen their album digitally on their computers on their phone. And we've been working together on that design for maybe some weeks. As soon as they see that album in their hands, when they when they come and pick it up, you see their faces. They're like, so amazed on how different it looks, but in a good way. I always ask. It's like, How do you feel about it? I say I didn't even I think this was gonna be this amazing. So they experiences completely different. And for sure, you're gonna sit down many times with that wedding, all home to, you know, to look at it. Maybe in our special occasion, or if you have it in your living room, you're gonna look at it like many time many times and just just relieve in the moment in a completely different way. So I think that's why it's so important to have something that is tangible and that you can experience in a very deep way.

spk_1:   6:23
Well, And what's so nice about that? Having things on social media agree, and even getting a gallery back from the photographer is amazing because you do have, like, over 1000 photos of your entire day. But it can be overwhelming, too. So kind of having like that snapshot and you get to go through the emotions of all that day. I mean, there's just nothing like print, no matter how evolved we get as a human society, just print is amazing to be able to hold that and think about your grand parents. You know, when you you held those old school black and white photos, there's just emotion that comes with that. So I love print. I love that you guys are such You guys are amazing print photographers, wedding photographers in general. But you really understand photographing for print. And why is that important?

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We'll put a reverend for print, and I will talk specifically about what the album when you're shooting an event, a wedding. In our case, we are very like, I guess that we have the album. We mind one we're shooting. So when we're shooting a wedding, I'm at some point and some parts of the day and the way that we designed some parts of the day the way that we photograph them is with that final product in mind is with that story that is gonna unfold in front of your eyes when you see all the moments of that they put together in the final product. And like you said, not every single photo is gonna end up in the album. So when you're shooting and when you're like capturing those moments, I have to find myself thinking, Oh, my gosh, this is gonna look wonderful on a spread. Let me adjust this specific side off the photo or whatever, or the posing just to make sure that that's perfect on that particular page that I already having my mind when I'm photographing. If you don't have that in mind, you might not take those two extra seconds to fix something when you're shooting. So when you when you see that back in your computer you're gonna find yourself. It's just like, Oh, I should have done these from that. But if you pause thinking about the print, which you cannot go back and redo it, you have to do it right there. If you have them in eternity and you can actually make things, I guess specifically for a particular design. And that makes the whole story even better because you can, you know, make completely spreads about. Like, for example, the couple spotlight. If you have those pictures that are like fabulous with the Florida Sun sets, I mean, those are one of my favorite wants to kind of the end of the album, even though that that he might not happen at the end of the day. But those are pretty to got out. I put the dot at the end and to put the period of the end of the day. So when I'm shooting, that's what are the things that I'm actually, you know, thinking not just capturing that moment just to capture, but with some story in mind.

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It really comes down to, um, design and composition, and for photographers who are grounded in the world of physical print. There's a there's an understanding of To walk up and take a photograph of somebody is very different to compose something that looks amazing. 16 by 20 framed on the wall or on a wide 24 by eight album, which is just the spans of it. The panna graphic, uh, ratio of it, the the mathematics of how design works with the eye and works with the mind to become either pleasing or distracting. It's something that is an entirely different discipline than simply snapping photographs. And so you learn over time what to do in camera to set yourself up, to be capable of utilizing those photographs both in their individual state as well as group together in a book. And it takes it takes a lot of practice. I would say that between the two of us, we must have taken over 1/2 a 1,000,000 photographs in the last five years to develop the eye that you need to say, Okay, I need the bride to stand just like Marge is saying the bride to stand in a certain place. I need to offset her to the right of the frame of the camera. I need to leave enough negative space so that if I put it on the page, I won't have to cut the feet or cut the hair. And so that it all fits perfectly and it's it's it's a very it is very time consuming, but I won't tell you that. The results in the eyes of the people who see these books put together they they often say, I can't believe that that picture was taken where we were standing at that time of day with all that craziness going on, and it turned out,

spk_1:   11:18
And that is really important for couples to understand that if print is important to them, to ask that from their photographer, because if you are putting something in a frame like an eight by 10 is not what comes out of the camera. So that is really important, which is what you guys are saying

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correct natively. Most cameras print into it. What will output a file that's perfect eight by 12. So if you know someone is needing something that's a standard frame size, which it seems crazy that it's like that, you have to be aware that the most important elements need to be in board of the outside of the frame. And so just little tiny, goofy technical stuff like that when it comes to printing pictures, if you're aware of it and you're first in that it helps to ensure that everybody's happy, no matter what they do with their pictures at the end of the day.

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Exactly giving that space for whichever composition they, you know, decide to put that Freeman, or that didn't make sense. Sorry. Did that make sense? You did. Okay. Okay. See? Look at me. I'm trying to act like I'm a photographer. Some,

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you know, what's funny is your your You are a visual creator. Whether you're a photographer or not, you have the eye of understanding if you're doing your website or you're making a smattering where you're doing the magazine, you understand design and print enough to know that it's really the languages. The same between the two disciplines of what you do in the publishing world on what we do in photography. Because you understand. Okay, they sent me a picture of you using their ad, but it's it's the wrong shape, and now I have to crop it. But it's not gonna fit into the you. I think you have, ah, much better understanding of this language than you might.

spk_1:   12:57
Well, thank you. I appreciate that, Nick. And it's, you know, and that goes back. Thio. I do appreciate print very much. That's why you know, a lot of people were like, Why are you doing a print magazine when everything's digital? But people love print and whether it's their wedding photos or whether it's a wedding magazine, people just love print because they love being able to hold it and look through it. So it's just a totally different vibe.

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Any Senate is like, Psychologically, you stop when you're looking at a picture. When you are looking at a printed picture. When you are non scrawling, you don't take a look. When you're sprawling on your phone on your computer, you actually don't pay attention to the to basically none of the details. I mean, you can take a look at a picture, but you're not going to stop and actually take your time to look at the picture when you have a friend, too. Image. When you have an album, just know that the next time did you actually look at a printed image or an album. Try to think about what I'm talking about right now. You're gonna be surprised off how long you actually look at that picture. And older details are you actually find when you have something that you can actually touch because you're adding more of your senses into that particular experience and then makes it even better?

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Oh, I agree. 100%. I I noticed. I do that because we have some. I mean, they're not fancy wedding book albums, but you know, the Shutterfly albums that you do just for your family and that kind of stuff. And I do find myself staring at all the details and sitting there and thinking because you're not distracted by social media, what's coming next? So it's just a totally different immersive experience, and I mean, I could just rave about print in any form forever. So when it comes to, let's say you're registering for gifts and you really know that you want you know, something on your wall. It would you suggest that that's a good time to start registering for frames or thinking what type of photos that you want and communicate that with your photographer. I

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will say yes. I will say that That is part off the things that you have to have a conversation about with your photographer. Because that will also help the don't offer to prepare for that particular event on how they're gonna, um, approach some things like I will say yes, Definitely. Do like register. If you're doing, I'll give registrant registry guests, please do, um, at some some friends into your gift registry. But, oh, at the time that you're communicating with your fedora for it could help with the details that Nick was thinking about that he was, um, talking to you about If you have a house, that I have a gigantic wall and you want a wall art and your father'd offer already knows that that what? That ever can prepare the polls because one name was mentioned in those little details, even though the hands, I mean, even if you have like, even in the middle of a wedding, which everything is super fast. If we know that the couple are thinking to have something on the wall and we found a particular polls that is perfect for them. We're gonna take a little bit more of that time to make sure that even, you know the hands are in the right place and the faces air looking, you know, the best that they can. And the framing is perfect. So, yes, communicate that with your photographer, the same thing as the album. One thing that that we do is we definitely work on the which type of album or what the design is gonna be after the wedding because you don't know exactly what are the things that are gonna end up going in the album under after the wedding. But if we have at least their desire, we can shoot for them.

spk_1:   17:02
Uh huh, Yeah, that's Ah, it's all such great advice. And I really I'm hoping this trend with print and people taking it off the USB or whatever the photographers are getting them, um, really continues because it's a keepsake for future generations as well. You know, if they decide to have kids or their family comes over because weddings are such an experience. And it's not just all about the couple. It's about all the guests that they wanted at their wedding. That shared in that that can still enjoy their pictures. So

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one of the things that we really talk a lot about with couples whether they book with us or not, is the importance of picking somebody that you not only like as a person because they're gonna be with you during your wedding day More than any other vendor, they're gonna be there from the very beginning to the very end, essentially cataloguing the moments of your day, but also somebody who understands the importance of having front ready images at the end of the day. Because if a person again is versed in print, is versed in wall art understands what it means to make sure that a a digital file is capable of being produced in the physical world. The way you see it on the screen, there are things that you must do on the technical side of preparing images to make sure that that you have confidence to tell the client. Okay, when what you see right now, I printed out some four by six is for you. This is the color you'll see when you go to our printer. If you don't, you should go to somebody reputable, but it comes back to making sure we, as the chefs in the kitchen, are using the raw ingredients that come out of the camera to produce things that no matter what a person might do with them today or five years from now or 20 years from now, those original files that they're getting from us are capable of all of those different things. So we kind of really go overboard on that just because we know there are so many photographers that exist and that of that group, there's a certain number that actually understand design and a certain group that understand print and of that group, a certain smaller group that go the extra mile to really make sure that everything is right for the client from now. Until I mean these pictures in dark storage on professional paper the last 200 years, these air that are within a family for two or three or four generations beyond their little time machines, and they capture everything that happened on that day, I tell I tell brides all the time I said, you're gonna be in a water room waiting to go down the aisle. Then you're gonna zip down the aisle. Everything's gonna be a bore. You're gonna have your kiss. You're gonna go back on the hour. You have not witnessed any part of your wedding day until you see your pictures. Then you see all the people who cried in the first row in the one kid who was pulling the other kid's hair and and the smart was in the laughs and the giggles and all the things. All the moments in between. The moments on Lee really come out when you witness those individual images, Um, hopefully in print. So, um, and when I'm talking to you now is the same way we talked to couples with that same desire for them to really choose to go that way.

spk_1:   20:20
I couldn't agree more. I can't tell you how many couples I've talked to and like talking to them about seeing their wedding photos and the like. I didn't even realize that happened Or you know, all these things or because they weren't there when it happened, you know, they were doing something else or they were there and they just forgot. So all those things I mean, and I know brides and grooms listening to this podcast right now have probably been told 50 million times that the day is just gonna fly by. But let me say a 50 million in one because it is so true and that's all they're gonna have left is the photos and the videos. So it's It's such it's such an important aspect of the wedding is really creating that time capsule. I love how you said that, Nick, because that's so true. It's a little time capsule.

spk_2:   21:07
It's the story that you hear in the news all the time that you know, you know, the house is on fire. Grabbed the photos. Uh, the Hurricane Sandy came through New York, the biggest story they had afterwards with all the photo labs that were volunteering to help people restore photos that they had found in a field or found under a rock or found under a truck because everybody is all they had left of their home was the memories of their past and their life in their family together. And as long as they could get that restored, everything was hold for them. So we understand the power of that and It is our hope that the people that listen to this understand that that if you have an opportunity to spend X amount of dollars with a photographer who does all this for you versus someone who may be slightly last but doesn't do any of these things for you, Um, that, to me is a mistake. That, to me, is not worth the savings that you might have. You know, I was still people. I said. Cheap photography is a very expensive mistake you could make. When you have a singular event like a wedding day, you can't go back down the aisle again. You can't do a first kiss the second time your first dance, your first announcement as husband and wife are or whatever situation you are in life. It is your first time and, God willing it you're on Lee time. And so we don't we as photographers, we get nervous at every wedding. We cry at every wedding because to us we are present in the moment and we are our witnesses to two people coming together. Um, and we know how important that is to them.

spk_1:   22:41
And and I know you've said this already but it is important to realize that it may not be important to you now, but it might be important to you later. And you don't want to not have the opportunity to, you know, have that available to so all such really, really good points. Guys, thank you so very much for talking to us about this topic. I feel like we could probably talk much, much longer about it. We're both I know we're both so passionate about it, but I really thank you guys so much for coming and talking to us about this. So if Couples would like to reach out to you and you know here about what you can offer them on their wedding day, how would they get in touch with you

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Of the easiest ways? Always like visiting the websites of Priya's our photo dot com. And of course, the phone number is 407 8734951 at If you're curious about how the pictures logo on social media, just this city's either way Facebook or Instagram at Sophia's heart Photo.

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Well, thank you guys very much. I appreciate it.

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They come

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on the for having us has been a pleasure. Thank

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you so much for listening at this episode of the plane, your Central Florida wedding podcast. For more Orlando wedding inspiration and tips head on over to orange blossom bride dot com. And if you're looking for amazing wedding pros to help bring your wedding day together, make sure to check out our wedding vendor directory until next time Happy Planet.