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Everyone at a wedding has a camera, everyone takes tons of pictures. And surely, one of the guests has “the shot”. Chances are though, no one will ever see it… that shot may stay in the camera for months… or it may eventually land in a computer… but it most likely will never be seen by the bride and groom. |
If you’re a guest …
Level 1: Basically impressive
Set the Eye-Fi card to go to a Picasa Web Album, a Flickr Set, or to your Facebook account. Take all the pictures you’d like from the wedding, capture smiles, dance, have fun! The next day, send the bride and groom the link to your set. They’ll be amazed and grateful to have pictures of their special day so fast! Why will that be the best gift for them? Because memories are priceless!
Level 2: Totally wow the crowd
Get your Eye-Fi Pro connected to your laptop via ad hoc. Bonus points for using a Lightroom watch folder and applying auto-filters. Bring camera, laptop, and projector to the wedding. Take lots of pics of the preparation, the crowd, the ceremony. At the reception, use a wall to project the photos getting sent via ad hoc transfer. All the guests will ooooh and ahhhh at the photos of the ceremony while they’re having dinner.
If you’re the lucky couple:
What the buzz is all about: getting your pics before the honeymoon!
Step 1.
Get 4-5 Eye-Fi cards. Preset them to go to your Picasa Album, Flickr set, or Facebook account. Many of these websites allow you to preset them for public viewing, and allow all guests to see, print and share their favorite shots. Go with the Eye-Fi Pro card and set up an ad hoc connection on your laptop so you can have all photos on a screen while at the wedding.
Step 2.
Set the cards up at home the week before the wedding. The day of, have your best man distribute them to 4-5 of your guests. Ask them to take pictures and videos for you. The Eye-Fi cards work in most SDHC compatible camera, so they’ll just need to pop it in and start shooting.
Step 3.
Get your best man to set up the laptop at the reception, so that all the photos download while you’re having dinner, champagne, and cake! After the reception, you can tell your guests to keep the cards as favors.
Tip: make sure to give them the login credentials so that they can edit the upload preferences after they’ve taken shots of your wedding.
