Photo Selection

On Thursday, 26 July 2007, we went to Ivory Romance to see the result of our photo shoot. We were attended to by our photographer, Ah Mun. His job was to help us select matching shots to fit into our photo album and to also convince us to upgrade our album into a fully digital design album. Personally, I thought their digital designs were decent, not impressive, but on the other hand, we would also get more poses in the album. Hmm…

Cost was not the main issue in not buying his sales pitch. I believe that if the digital designs made the album look truly extraordinary, then it would automatically become a must-have, a necessity that no matter what, we would still want to upgrade our package for that awesome result. But that was not the case… and moreover, I don’t really like indoor photos that much.

As for Sze, he let me decide as he didn’t have a preference. Fiona was also with us to help in selecting the photos. We wanted more poses but didn’t want the digital designs. So, we came up with the idea of upgrading our mini album from identical poses (which was redundant anyway) to different poses, with a digital copy of all the photos (no touch-up) on CD-ROM. Poof! There goes the fat commission for Ah Mun - he wasn’t thrilled but helped us to finish up the process. Our album would be ready on 28 September 2007.

The physical mini album was not impressive but that was less important – the crucial point was that we would get the digital copy of the photos in JPEG format. That was like getting the film negative in the old days and we could then do anything we wanted from there. We didn’t want the bridal studio’s slideshow either as we wanted to do our own - the video slideshow of our Pre-Wedding Album has been posted earlier in the Video Gallery.