Digital Negatives?

One of the most common questions I get is: What are digital negatives?

What digital negatives are:

Digital negatives include all of the images taken at your wedding or engagement/bridal session. They are the full-resoultion, unedited files. A disc (DVD) comes with every wedding package for you to print as you wish.

What they are not:

Digital negatives are not edited, per se. They are color corrected and exposure corrected. I also weed out the duplicate pictures and obviously unusable out-of-focus pics.

They are not fully edited to their maximum extent. The photos you see on this blog are considered edited. They'e been through a rigorous process in photoshop tweaking every aspect of the image. They are corrected for color, sharpened, and for the most part, blemishes have been removed.

Digital negatives do not have any of these things.

What should I do with my digital negatives:

1: Put them on your myspace/facebook

2: Print them out at a good lab. Please do not use discount labs such as Wal Mart, Sams or any other grocery store. These places do not correct their prints, and they use discount paper. In other words you get what you pay for. For local labs, I recommend Batten's photogem labs and MotoPhoto.

3: Email them to your relatives.

Do I own the copyright for the images on the disk?

Yes and no. I own the copyright (sorry, it's federal law), but you have the ability to do what you wish within reasonable restraits. You can print the images as many times as you want and give them to your friends and relatives. You can't: A) Sell the images B) Give a copy of the disc to your friends or relatives C) edit the images (feel free to crop and size). Leave the editing to me and you won't be dissapointed.

So how do I get the edited images?

Purchase them through my storefront. If you look on my main site, allenarrick.com, you'll see a section for "online proofing." Here, all of your images are proofed to you. When you order a print from me, every image goes through processing, blemish correction and adding a certain "pop" to the images that the originals don't really have.

Here are some sampes of before and after images. On the left is the image included in the digital negative and and on the right is the edited version.

The last one had composition work done. Which is unusual, but if you'll notice it's a little crooked in the original. Editing will fix these problems.

How can I get a disk of all the edited images?

Editing takes lots of time and a certain eye. In other words, There isnt enough time to edit every picture taken at your wedding. Imagine spending 30 minutes each on 900 photos. You can be sure that every image ordered through me will go through a rigorous editing process with love and attention to detail that a local lab could never offer.

I hope I answered everyone's questions. If I missed anything feel free to email me allenarrick@gmail.com