Wedding photographers have been delivering their photos the same way for years, and there’s a better way to do it.
Typically, the photographer will shoot your wedding, then take several days or weeks to edit and deliver the photos.
That’s not great because:
- You only get to see the photos days or weeks after your wedding—but because it’s your wedding and you’re excited about it, you and your guests want to view and share them right away!
- It becomes a hassle for you to share the photos with your guests. You’ll have to find a place to upload all of the photos, and you might not feel comfortable sharing all of the wedding photos with everyone.
- While your guests would love to see all of your wedding photos and share in your joy, they also want to find their own photos. They will have to browse through the whole gallery to find them.
As wedding photographers ourselves, we built Honcho to solve these problems and provide a much better photo sharing app for our clients and guests.
Here are the ways that Honcho addresses the previous list of problems:
- With Honcho, wedding photographers can upload their photos in real-time—while they shoot. That way, you and your guests can view and download the photos right away, without having to wait for days or weeks.
- All of the photos are automatically uploaded to an online gallery, which you can share with anyone or protect with a password. If you don’t feel comfortable showing all of the photos, you can blur them for privacy.
- Guests can find their own photos with face recognition—the photos are distributed to each individual, automatically. All they have to do is upload a selfie, and Honcho finds their photos by matching them with the selfie. If you have blurred the photos for privacy, guests can only view their own photos, which are found by face recognition.
With Honcho, wedding photography becomes much more than just documenting a life-changing event. It’s a photo sharing app that helps to create an engaging experience that adds to the excitement of your wedding.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the features and show how you and your wedding photographer can use them for your wedding.
Upload Wedding Photos in Real-Time
You and your guests want to see the wedding photos right away, in the moment—not days or weeks after the wedding.
After all, we’re living in the age of smartphones, where we can instantly share photos and videos. There’s no reason for wedding photography to be stuck in a different age.
Honcho gives your wedding photographer superpowers, so that they can free the photos in their camera.
All they have to do is connect their camera to their smartphone, with the Honcho mobile app installed—we support both iOS and Android. The app automatically detects their camera.
As they shoot, the photos will be automatically transferred to the app and uploaded to the cloud, where they can be viewed in an online gallery.
In effect, we’re uploading your wedding photos straight from the camera to the cloud, in real-time!
Even better, no dedicated equipment is needed. Your wedding photographer doesn’t have to invest in costly hardware—they just need their camera and smartphone.
As the photos are uploaded from your wedding photographer’s camera to the cloud, you can instantly view and download them in the online gallery.
You can share the link to the online gallery with all of your guests. Many of our clients print the QR code and place it around the venue, or show it on the main screen.
That way, everyone can share in the best moments of your wedding right away—it makes a huge difference in adding to the experience.
However, not everyone is comfortable with sharing all of their wedding photos with the world. We get it, these are some of the most intimate moments of your lives.
Honcho gives you a couple of ways to protect your privacy.
First, you can add a password to the online gallery, so that only you and selected guests can access it.
The second way is more interesting, and it’s what we recommend for most clients.
You can blur all of the photos in the online gallery. Only photos that are found with face recognition are unblurred.
That means you can still share the online gallery with everyone, but they will only be able to see their own photos, which are found with face recognition.
To do that, just click on the Find Me button and upload a selfie. Honcho will automatically find your photos by matching them with your selfie.
Since you can’t see anyone else’s photos, this option lets you share the online gallery publicly, yet maintain your privacy.
Automatically Distribute Your Wedding Photos With Face Recognition
The photos taken at your wedding are important to your guests too.
And while they would love to see your photos to share in your joy, they also want to find their own photos.
After all, your wedding is where many of your guests will see each other after a long time, such as friends or relatives who have lost touch or live far apart.
That’s why we find it so unfortunate that there hasn’t been a good solution to distribute wedding photos individually to each guest—until now, that is.
So many of us have experienced this scenario—we’re at a wedding as guests, a wedding photographer takes photos of us, and we never see those photos.
We understand that wedding couples are busy with starting a new life together, and distributing photos is not high on their priority list.
That’s why we built Honcho to do it for you, automatically.
Photos from the wedding photographer are uploaded to the online gallery in real-time, and guests can easily find their own photos with face recognition.
We use the latest AI technology, and the face recognition software can detect over a hundred faces in a single photo. It can also recognise faces from different angles and lighting conditions.
The only work you do is sharing the link to the online gallery with your guests. The rest is taken care of for you.
In addition, Honcho is flexible and allows different ways of uploading photos.
After your wedding photographer is done editing the photos, they can upload the files to Honcho.
Once again, all you do is share the online gallery, and the photos are distributed automatically for you.
Create a Live Slideshow for Your Wedding Photos
We’ve done thousands of events and weddings, and we know that nothing engages an audience more than a live slideshow.
There’s something magical about seeing photos of yourself on a large screen. It generates energy and gets conversations going.
That’s why we built live slideshows into Honcho, so that you can also create a bit of magic at your wedding.
To start a slideshow, just click on the More button in the online gallery, and select Slideshow. It runs in the browser, so there’s no need to install any software.
You can show it on the main venue screen or even on multiple screens around the venue.
Your wedding photographer can control the photos that show up in the slideshow, by approving or unapproving them in the Honcho mobile app. That’s important for most photographers, because not every photo is worthy of being shown.
And while they shoot, the photos will go from the camera to the slideshow in real-time, without any manual file transfers—it just works automatically.
Conclusion
There are so many missed opportunities in the way that wedding photography is done today.
By not sharing the wedding photos right away, you miss the opportunity to create engagement and excitement during your wedding, to elevate it above any other event.
By not distributing the wedding photos individually to each guest, you miss the opportunity to give keepsakes that are personally meaningful to everyone. The photos are important to your guests too, but that’s too often an afterthought.
With Honcho, wedding photography becomes more than just documenting your life event. The photo sharing app adds to the experience of your wedding and shares photos individually to each guest, with face recognition.
It’s a win-win for both you and your wedding photographer. Your photographer gets to showcase their photos to everyone, which is highly effective in generating enquiries and referrals for their services.
To top it off, no dedicated hardware is needed, so there’s minimal investment to use Honcho’s game changing features.
Get your wedding photographer to sign up for an account with Honcho, and make a difference to your wedding.
