| Previews
The Preview Page allows you to view images from your wedding,
portrait session or event at your leisure and from the comfort of your own home or
office. To access your previews scroll down to the bottom of this page and
enter your password.
The images will load
for your review. Be sure to enter the password exactly as listed on
your invoice or your A-La-Carte event price list without the
"quotation" marks. If you experience any difficulty please
let us know.
Feel free to share your password with family and friends.
However, online previews will only be available for 90 days.
What Happened To Old
Fashioned Proofs?
This question is asked less and
less as people get use to the term "Previews". Although most
studios usually don't go into detail, the term is used to describe images
of your event that are viewed in the studio on a big screen or online. "What
has happened to
the old fashion 4" x 5" proofs that we can carry home,
study the photographs and decide which ones we want to purchase?" There are still a few
studios around that handle their previews that way. But more and more
studios are getting away from providing small prints of their work that
can be carried out of the studio. Those that do allow small prints to
leave the studio have clients pay large deposits and sign lengthy detailed
contracts with the promise of severe
penalties if not returned intact and within a certain time frame. Studios that no longer offer these services give copyright violations as
the primary reason for discontinuing paper proofs.
The wide scale use of scanners and in-home computers and
printers have made it easier to enlarge and duplicate the studios proofs denying the photographer or studio their rightful payment for their work. The
copies, however, are generally very poor quality and fade in a short time.
There
seems to be wide spread ignorance about the U.S. Copyright laws. However,
ignorance of the law provides no protection as many chain stores have
recently discovered when they duplicated and enlarged professional prints.
Although the law does not require a photographer or studio to stamp a
photograph with their name or logo to retain their copyright, the majority
do so out of pride in their work and as a form of advertising. The
penalties for copyright violation can be large and
severe.
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