Here is a big topic that I could probably discuss over and over again, but I choose to make my clients happy. I know this day in age, disc of your images are the only thing you want. Why? because you can take it anywhere to get your pictures printed for a lot cheaper and a whole lot more for the price of ONE of my prints prices. PLUS, most of you use it for Facebook, or Twitter, maybe even for Google +. Some may even still use MySpace. C’mon now, who hasn’t uploaded more pictures since all of these have come around? I totally understand because without out any of these social media sites, I wouldn’t be uploading any pictures of myself, and that’s just because I don’t like pictures of myself; however, I mainly do it because I have family or friends that I don’t see every day. Of course Gramma wants to see how much you’ve grown since elementary school to your graduating day! However, I strongly believe in taking a small step in making them physical copies to last for a lifetime because let’s face it, it’s only a matter of time until the next big social media site hits, and you’ll delete everything from your current site, and start all over on a new site. Would you have all those pictures go to waste?
Since the world is on a technology craze these years, it’s only a matter of time when CD’s & DVDs are going to vanish. Remember those old floppy disc’s that we thought were so amazing? Look where they are now, 95% of computers don’t even take them anymore, and most stores don’t have the ability to change those to any sort of way to retrieve them again. How devastating would that be to know that your wedding photos were on a CD and you didn’t get all of them printed because you kept thinking to yourself, I can do it tomorrow, but then tomorrow turns into years, and then etc.
Sometimes, my PC tends to have a lot of things on there, from personal to business related, and sometimes it loses itself and goes bonkers. My dad is an IT, so he could fix my computer, but every single time he does, the entire data is erased, so no family pictures from vacation to no pictures with my friends from school or outings. All of it BOOM, gone forever. When it finally hit me that the most important one is the last few years of my grandfather’s life, I was completely devastated. All the pictures with our big family together, POOF! Since now, nothing is the same as it use to be.
If you’ve ever lost any important photo due to technology, then you can understand why it’s so important to purchase prints instead of a CD or DVD. However, I’m not against them because I sell them to my clients, but I know most of them forget to actually print them out. I just hope that this blog reminds you of how important printing your pictures really are instead of just showing them off to Facebook or any social media site. I will however be changing my print packages to include a few of your most favorite portraits from the session to let you show them off to Facebook. Like I said, I’m not against purchasing a CD or DVD at all, I’m just simply saying that the real thing makes it so much better!
Quote to end the blog:Â “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – By Anonymous
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