I thought, since our blog is actually our “about” page, that I would take a short break from pictures with a couple of posts, as much I see most about pages as: blah, blah, blah – just show me the beef. I’ll try to make them short – thanks for bearing with me.

We have gotten a ton of calls recently from prospective clients looking for just wedding coverage and a DVD of images.

While we do offer a DVD of digitally mastered images with a fine-art wedding album, we really believe that, as much as we are in the electronic age, one day a couple is going regret not having a wedding album.

I think the proof of that has been an explosion of new companies who design and order wedding albums for brides and grooms (and photographers who have never designed an album or find that it’s just too much work). They have found that many couples have a DVD of images, but don’t know what do with them, or find that putting together their own album is a daunting task.

And, proofs are just a starting point for us for both a vision of a finished image and a vision of how an image can be used in a creative way in a wedding album.

Here a couple of examples of before and after – a DVD proof and my vision for a finished print. We go through a similar creative process when we design a wedding album.

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Our current and former clients who have been through the album design process realize how much work is involved in design, re-design, finishing and retouching prints and that by far, most of our work, both actual and creative, is done after the wedding.

Oh, I have to admit that sometimes at 2AM, after hours of hours of pouring over a clients wedding album, Barb and I wonder if we shouldn’t just be doing shoot and burn wedding photography and spending all those hours working on something more profitable, like photographing little league teams, but it’s all worth it in the end when we’re able to present, what we hope is a work of art, to our clients.

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