Manual or digital

Philippines
April 10, 2007 8:15am CST
Should you choose manual or digital photography for your wedding? Weddings are one of the so called milestones in one's life. More often than not, it is one that is to be cherished forever. This is why people try their best to capture it in pictures. Years ago manual photography is the only choice. Nowadays, one has the option to go digital. But which one is better. And which one do you prefer?
6 responses
• United States
13 Apr 07
I work at a photography studio, and believe me, you're regret it if you don't go digital! You will have a much easier time ordering extra pictures later. Also, you'll have them on your comuter to e-mail everyone and put online. Also, you can put all kinds of beautiful effects on them!
• Philippines
13 Apr 07
Having it stored in a hard drive make it easier to share your pictures to your friends and relatives around the world.
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
going digital is better because you will be able to take as many pictures as you like. since wedding is a one-time event, i think it is just right to make the best out of it. if it is a special event in your life and you really enjoyed it, you just can't get enough to show it. memories will be the only ones that will be left in your mind but at least you have the memories documented in the form of your pictures. if you want hard copy for the pictures, you can easily have it developed after you have chosen the best shots. i think it is also cheaper to have a digital photography in your wedding because it is possible that you just pay for the labor of the photographer.
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• Philippines
12 Apr 07
Hiring a professional digital photographer is actually more expensive than manual photographers. But if you want your photos to be in colors, sepia and black and white, then going digital will be relatively less expensive because you save on different films.
@feris0604 (303)
• Malaysia
10 Apr 07
Digital would go very far compares to manual. You can delete shots you dislike and save some space in your memory card. Further more, it will be much cheaper as the cost of printing digital pictures may not be so costly after all. You can even edit or retouch during the editing session, but not for manual photography. Think of the time and cost .... go all out for digital photography!
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
11 Apr 07
A good Digital SLR Camera would doas good as a film camera. I would suggest that you sit down with the Bride and Groom and the families and discuss which shots they would like and what groups shots. One of the things we did at my sons wedding was had 2-3 people taking pictures of each guest as they arrived. I would also suggest that wehn you take pictures of the Bride or Groom dancing with guests you should ask them to face the camera while your photographer takes the photo. Make sure you have extra Memory Cards anda couple of extra sets of Batteries.
@rhinoboy (2129)
10 Apr 07
I think that digital is the way to go, just because of the versatility it allows. When I got married, we had a small, inexpensive ceremony and didn't hire a professional photographer. Instead, we collected the pictures from all of our guests digital cameras and edited them into a pretty good photo album. The only drawback we found with this was that we didn't get all of the 'poses' we wanted with different groups of people. I was certainly happy with the results though. If you're on a tight budget, it's certainly an excellent option.
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• Philippines
10 Apr 07
Well if one can't hire a professional photographer then going digital is the best option. You can tweak the photos later on in photoshop to look as if a professional photographer took it. But one has to make plans if they want those posed pictures.
@diansinta (7544)
• Indonesia
10 Apr 07
wedding picture - wedding picture image
i think we should go with digital photograpy with a serious moment like a wedding. because we dirrectly can see the result after taking pictures. if we using film, then when the film stuck in camere or burn, we have no widding picture and we don't know it until the last shoot.
• Philippines
10 Apr 07
You are so right. With manual photography, there is the risk of overexposure and underexposure. Both of this problems can be address right away with digital camera.