Odd, I've been shopping for a wedding photographer and will be marrying one and have found the opposite to be true. She and almost every photographer we've interviewed gives you the negatives or raw images to do with as you will. They're just not worth keeping.
The future-missus has a file cabinet full of old negatives from the first few years she was first shooting professionally and didn't include them with her prints. They're almost certainly never going to generate any money and are more of an expense to her at this point. Besides, she'd rather be shooting than making reprints anyway: Shoot it, sell it and move on.
Now that she's shooting digital most of the time, she'll easily shoot 10GB of images at a wedding. 10GB x 52 Weddings/Year = 520 GB/year. Add that up over a career and store it forever.
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Odd, I've been shopping for a wedding photographer and will be marrying one and have found the opposite to be true. She and almost every photographer we've interviewed gives you the negatives or raw images to do with as you will. They're just not worth keeping.
The future-missus has a file cabinet full of old negatives from the first few years she was first shooting professionally and didn't include them with her prints. They're almost certainly never going to generate any money and are more of an expense to her at this point. Besides, she'd rather be shooting than making reprints anyway: Shoot it, sell it and move on.
Now that she's shooting digital most of the time, she'll easily shoot 10GB of images at a wedding. 10GB x 52 Weddings/Year = 520 GB/year. Add that up over a career and store it forever.