So how did it look? Better than you expected? Worse?

I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

I'd probably do it, given the disclaimers Blake has made about how fast it will seem. That's a lot of pictures. Sad thing is, after four or five minutes of people being polite and watching the slideshow, they're going to tune it out and it's going to become a background shenanigan really quickly.

I don't know how it is in a lot of urban areas, but in less populated areas like mine, you have to try to take every job that comes at you. That means taking jobs you don't necessarily like, and very often doing jobs for much less than you would want to because you have to get the client before they look elsewhere. So much of my business is based on referrals and repeat customers, I try to never shun a potential new customer.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Glad she didn't cross the river.

The first thought that came to my mind was to scale the pix and show four up at a time (or more with some pix), displaying each quad for about 4 seconds. For the occasional choice pix, I'd do a full scale zoom-in for another 3-4 seconds (perhaps with a Ken Burns effect).

I suspect your client would be more than happy to select say "the top 50" photos for special highlight. Anyway, just a thought...

Lotsa luck,

Michael

Hey Rob, no problem and I do appreciate your two cents!

The montage doesn't look 'bad.' Obviously it's not the way I'd like a montage to look. I think it's boring.

But I also have to keep in mind that this is for HER FAMILY, not mine... and just seeing the pictures to the music she selected will probably have everyone 'oohing & ahhing' and such.

I am in agreeance with how this play out at the rehearsal dinner. After 5-8 minutes, I'm sure people will be like, 'Can I eat now? How much longer is this thing? Will it look rude if I get up and grab a drink?'

And those are the things I told her about 3 months ago... but to no avail!

I applaud you Blake. You took a job that was not your cup of tea and gave a client what she wanted. I have had clients before that made requests that were counter to what I would choose or recommend and I told them so but at the end of the day, they are your client and if you offer your advice and they choose to ignore it then you have done what you can. After that it is our job to deliver the client's vision or at least an approximation of it. Good work tackling a complicated project and making a tidy profit.

Thanks Bryan! Mosey on down to Alabama I'll buy the first round! Heck, I'll tell you about pictures 289 thru 926 and how I inserted one of my baby pics into the montage!

Blake- I just might take you up on that beverage offer and let you regal me with your tale.

Please tell me your are joking about the insert though, and remember that these forums are massively indexed on google so anything said here will likely be read by a client at some point...

I couldn't muster up the energy to find a pic of me or anything else to throw in there.

Would be funny though!

I just finished an approximately 27 minute montage with 176 photos and I am still trying to wrap my head around the scope of your project. What was the approximate view time for each photo in the end?

She had 25 different songs and some songs had anywhere from 40-170 pictures... so anywhere from just over a second to barely over two, depending on the length of the song.

I'd say the average two or real close to two seconds each.