Hi all
I've done my photo selection last weekend and tot of dropping by to say Hello! My appt @ 5pm on a Sunday and it's quite crowded...If I'm not wrong I think I saw Chris Ling himself at Z studio with another couple also choosing their photos. Previously I was told CL himself only do overseas shooting...maybe a big client so can give personal attention
Anyway one staff attended to me and showed me a stack of ~150 photos (5-6 poses with 20 backgrounds). For the first round we did a quick browse and removed those doesn't look good eg I look fat/close my eyes....the staff was a sweet talker, kept on saying I look very pretty, chose the correct gown and very matching on me etc etc.... Anyway I wasn't taken in.
The second round the actual photo consultant Louise come over to attend me after her client left. She separated the photos into main gown, tea dress, evening gown & casual dress category so we can select easier. Again sweet talker but I ignore her heehee.... She also say the photographer said we are an easy going couple, he is comfortable with us. Dunno true or not, just listen with a pinch of salt.
By 7pm we're tired and went out for a quick dinner and discussion. Our package is 30 poses i.e 30 photos which can make up to 10-11 pages in a album. So we decide to remove away those duplicates for example evening dress shot in Victorian background & flowers background, we remove the entire series. Then if there's similarities in poses we also compare and remove one. Then I like the black & white tiles so I keep 5 photos in the background for my main gown.
It's indeed tiring and finally we managed to choose all 30 photos, each background abt 3 poses. It's going to be a thin album but as you're aware, every additional photo is $115 which is costly. There's a moment we had 50 photos so the extra 20 cost $3000! Well Louise was quite frank, she ask what is our direction for our marriage preparation. So my HTB told her we want a simple wedding and we don't mind a thin album so she didn't press on to ask us to top up for the album. It was indeed very difficult to choose as there's quite a few good ones which I like to keep.
Don't be compelled to top up if you don't want to, bcoz it is only during the actual day where your guests will flip through it and forget after tat. For that 5-10 mins of flipping, who will remember if you have thin or thick album? But of course if your idea of marriage is to have alot of memories, then by all means select more photos.
Going to view the album layout in early Aug... tata~
