Category Archives: Photography

Capturing Wedding Memories With Wedding Photography

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When planning out the details of a wedding, securing the services of a good wedding photographer is something that should not be overlooked. Years from the wedding date, the photos will allow you to vividly look back on the day and relive some of those happy emotions. Wedding photography helps to capture what might be one of the most important events in a couple’s life. The photographer does more than just take standard shots of the wedding party, including shots of just the bride and groom as well as group shots. In fact, wedding photographers capture candid moments and feelings of romance during the wedding and reception. Since the wedding day usually involves a ceremony and a reception, the wedding photographer should be booked for both of the day’s events. This enables the bride and groom to have photos of the ceremony as well as photos with friends and family after the ceremony and throughout the reception.

At some weddings, the photographers even bring the wedding guests into the fun and let them be the photographers. This is done by placing disposable cameras on each table for the reception. This gives the bride and groom some really unique wedding photos because they are shot from the perspective of the guests. It can really give the bride and groom an idea of how everyone else was celebrating their union since they can’t be everywhere at once during the reception.  Of course, the professionals continue to take wedding photos as well, which gives the bride and groom a nice mix of professional and amateur wedding photos.

Regardless of whether all the wedding photos are by the pros, or if your guests help out during the reception, you are certain to have plenty of photos to look back on. You can even enlist a family member or friend as a backup photographer to get twice as many memories captured.

Brandis Alves is a Minneapolis Wedding Photographer.

Convert All Your Film Into Digital

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In this day and age I’m not sure why anybody still has not digitized their film collection.  In the past, this would have been an expensive and time consuming process that could only be done by a professional.  With new film digitizers like this Plustek Opticfilm 7200 film scanner even amateurs can digitize their slides and film at home.

The type of slide scanner that you get will depend on how many slides or films you need to convert.  A regular slide digitizer can process a couple hundred to a thousand slides in several days.  This is the most economical type of slide converter but you will need to manually load each slide. 

If you have boxes and boxes of slides to scan though you will want to get a more advanced model.  The more expensive slide scanners have auto loading trays that can process large batches of film.  However these machines can cost upwards of $1000.  The best solution in this case is to rent a slide scanner or sell your scanner after you are done using it.  The good thing about slide scanners is that they retain a high resell value for many years.

No matter what type of slide scanner you plan to buy, make sure it has digital ICE technology to clean up scratches and dust.  Otherwise you will have to clean up each digital photo in Photoshop which is a big headache especially if you have more than a few photos.