Should I give clients full retouched images, or just lightroom adjustments?

How many images do you provide a client with for a wedding? Full editing or just light room adjustments?

Dave: We light room edit everything, and we each shoot about 500 images for the day – about 1000 images – so if we were to full retouching, that would be crazy. Instead, we edit everything and choose our favourites and re-touch those and create our own design mock-up. And that way, when they make changes we only need to edit five or ten images.

Taylor: I usually ballpark 500 and deliver about 600 – 800, and they’re the best photos. Don’t send 12 variations of the same family shot because you’ll waste a lot of the clients’ time. It’s a quality thing – if they’re not 100% sharp images, I don’t include them.

Dave: There are so many moments in the day that if you don’t include the shot of grandma giving her a hug, there are so many more that they won’t even remember that one.