Once upon a time, weddings had pictures taken by, well, a photographer. And, maybe, somebody who had a Brownie at the reception and took a few flash photos.
When Margie and I got married, it was all about the radical innovation of disposable cameras. Now not only did you get a professional photographer, but a disposable camera at each table, meaning a bunch of (after photo processing) photos from each table. We have an album of the pro photos and a separate album (collated by Mark) of the best of the amateur photos.
But with all this newfangled InterWeb stuff, things have changed again. Doyce and Kate, for their wedding, set up a Flickr site that everyone (who pretty much has digital cameras) could upload their photos to. As a result, they have some 1300 photos from the wedding planning, rehearsal, ceremony, reception, and honeymoon. Yeah, a lot are duplicates, and many aren’t all that good — but with that volume they can organize and sort and collate and come up with the best of the best, and it’s all automatically shared by everyone.
Pretty spiffy, if you ask me. Which makes me wonder what the next quantum leap in wedding photography will be.
Well, the next Quantum Leap in Wedding technology would obviously envolve Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell…just saying. =P