Here’s a great article our friends over at Pro Studio Supply wanted to share with the CurrentPhotographer.com community. Enjoy!

A tip for those of you planning weddings: To print every single wedding picture we have would only cost $104 at Walgreen’s. Skip the print package and just get the CD-Rom!  – Janet

Woe to photographers who have clients like Janet.  Photographer M. Bubba Blume of Insomniac Designs Photography offers an excellent response for educating the customer who questions why she should pay him to print photographs when she could get them printed from the CD at a low-cost processor.

‎Thanks Janet!

Of course, Walgreen’s uses the cheapest paper and processing they can get away with and the result is prints that won’t be around in 50 years.

You’ve spent the money on a professional photographer. You’ve trusted him with creating the memories and capturing the moments of one of the most important days in your lives. Why not trust that he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to prints?

Sure, you won’t pay 19 cents a print. But you shouldn’t. I can spend 4 or 5 hours working on one image to make it as perfect as I can get it. Most images don’t get that kind of time, which is true, but they do get some time. They all get color corrected and balanced lighting. Go ahead and print that on some cheap paper and see how they turn out. Read More→