Lol, well I am a photographer as it happens. Just upload the thumbnails! Of the 45 or so weddings I shoot each year, totalling between 40-50,000 images easily per year, they all get hosted online. These are just to view right? So no need to be that sort of size.

Just resize them to 400-600 pixels wide, you can batch them in CS3 etc, or straight from your RAW converter and bobs your uncle. Each image should be no more than 50-60k with more than decent detail at screen res but too crappy to print from.
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