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baby albums | colorado springs wedding photographer

Dec 29, 2008

This fall two new adorably little sample albums came in. I’ve been meaning to share them here, but I actually have a backlog of album pictures to share! Hopefully I’ll get all caught up in the next couple of weeks.

The first is our new engagement photo album meant as a guest sign-in book. It took me a long time to come up with something that met my standards but is still affordable enough to be a guest sign-in book! A custom designed 10 spread 5×5 album is $350. We need about 2 months notice to have these in time for the wedding.

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A sample spread:

The second is my new favorite product–the mini flushmount. We’re been offering them all year, but I finally got our sample this fall and it is just so cute and little! It’s barely bigger than an ornament!

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I am really happy with the detail retained in even the smallest photos.

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A sample spread:

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kara's brilliant guest book idea | storyboards

Jun 19, 2008

I’m all about the product shares this week. :)

Along with our albums, I love storyboards. Probably because a storyboard is like a single album page that goes on your wall–pictures are just better when they’re together in a nice clean design.

Kara came up with my favorite use for a storyboard yet–using it instead of a guest book. She ordered a 20×24 mounted storyboard (all of our storyboards are mounted, so they are sturdy and will be able to hold up to being a guest book very well). We decided it should have lots of white space for lots of signatures. I mocked up a couple of options, and here was the winner:

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Can’t you just see it full of signatures and hanging on the wall? I totally love this idea!

And while we’re on the topic of storyboards, here’s one that I mocked up for Aubree and Zack that I want to print for myself I love it that much. (Which is the weird thing about being a portrait photographer. If I were a painter, it would be cool to have my paintings in the house. But sadly it would be weird if I hung MY art at my house–I think our clients would be weirded out if they thought we had 15×30 inch storyboards of them in our hallway.) :)

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our wedding albums just got cooler

Jun 18, 2008

I adore our custom flushmount albums. I obsess about them and drool over the leather swatches. I think they are amazing and the perfect way to see your pictures. I get so excited when our couples order an album because that’s how I want them to see their pictures. Not on a disc, but in a gorgeous album, designed to reflect the day and perfectly printed so the colors are amazing and will last forever.

I got way excited when I learned about a new cover option: glass. (It’s not really glass, it’s plexiglass, because an actual glass album would be fragile and dangerous, but when I think of it as a glass album, I love it that much more.)

I knew immediately what I wanted to make my sample from: Meg and Matt’s engagement shoot. I created the album and then had to wait for the cover to be an ordering option at my vendor (this took forever). Then I had to wait two months for my album to arrive (this took forever, too). And then on Monday, there it was at my door: the coolest album ever.

And one of my favorite spreads:

I could totally see using these as adorable guest books. Speaking of which, tomorrow I’ll share another cool product: the storyboard Kara and Drew are using as a “guestbook” at their wedding!

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