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Estate wedding at Lake Tahoe – 8×8 Starter album design

monique — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:08:57 +0000

Here is an example of our beautiful, and affordable, 8×8 Starter album that is included with all of our collections.

The linen cover, pictured here in black, comes in a variety of colors.

New flush-mount wedding album options

Scott — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:16:55 +0000

You can see full examples of some of our past flush-mount albums by clicking on the products or album link under the categories section of this blog. I just finished photographing a few of our albums from this year and since there is some new stuff in there, I thought I would give you a detailed look at some of our new flush-mount and traditional wedding album style offerings. For more details and examples of albums, click on the albums link from our main website.

Our metal "armour" cover with the photograph printed onto the metal.

The Shrike skin back to the metal cover 20 x 8 flush-mount album.

All our flush-mount albums allow amazing design freedom. In this case we have a breath-taking double page spread on a 20 x 8 album. The optional thin style of interior pages allow for less weight and bulk, but do not lie completely flat. The standard pages lie flat.

Another example of pages from one of our 20 x 8 flipbook albums.

Detail shots can fill your entire spread.

A detail shot of our thinner style pages for flush-mount albums.

A detail shot of the spine with our thinner pages for flush-mount albums.

The cover of one of our 12 x 12 albums with the "Secret Garden" leather cover.

A detail photograph of the pages used in our standard flush-mount album pages.

A detail photograph of the spine used in our standard flush-mount album pages.

An example of one of our fabric covers with accent color on a 10 x 10 traditional style album.

All our traditional albums come with your choice of fine art paper or fabric on the interior cover.

Traditional albums have the individual photographs mounted directly onto the pages.

A detail of how the photograph mounts into the traditional style album pages. You get your choice of page and border color.

A detail shot of the pages from our traditional album.

12×12 flush mount album pages for a Lake Tahoe wedding

monique — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:50:58 +0000

By Monique

I thought I’d post photographs of a complete 12×12 flush mount album for those of you who would like to see what the flush mount album design looks like. I design each wedding album from scratch, and I never, ever hire an outside company to design albums, or drop images into predictable design software templates. After a couple chooses their favorite images, I design the pages with simplicity and elegance, using the sizing and placement of the photographs as the design elements. I create albums showcasing a couple’s favorite images, designed to tell the story of their day from page to page so that within the overall wedding day story, each spread has it’s own story to tell from each part of the day, from the getting ready process through the reception. The versatility of the flush mount album allows for page designs to feature panoramic images, a single image that sweeps across 2 facing pages. Each page is an actual photograph, printed on professional photographic paper, which is then mounted onto thick page boards and bound into the album by a professional album making company here in the U.S. The album featured in this post was designed for Shella and Jason, who were married at the beginning of April at St. Frances of Assisi Catholic Church in Incline Village. I did all of the family portraits at the church as requested, then I took the wedding party to Sand Harbor for more portraits. The reception was held at the Resort at Squaw Creek. I was so impressed with their selection of photographs for their album! They had a perfect mix of posed portraits (not too many!!!) with the many, many candids to really tell the story of their day.

8×8 flush mount album pages – Homewood Lake Tahoe wedding photography

monique — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:59:40 +0000

By Monique

Here are a few of my favorite pages from an 8×8 flush mount album I recently designed for Claire and Paul. The couple got ready in South Shore, and we stopped at Emerald Bay for some pre-ceremony shots, then it was on to the top of Homewood Mountain Ski Resort for the ceremony. This is not the complete album, I just wanted to post a few pages, to show off some of my favorite flush mount design work.

Black leather cover, with thick flush mount pages

The first page starts on the right side. Each page is an actual photograph, printed on professional photo paper, and then mounted to the thick board to make the final page. The pages are sealed, and everything used in the album making process is archival.

An example of how the flush mount design can include photos that sweep across both pages of a double page spread, with a barely noticeable small black seam running down the middle.

Some pages are designed to have one photo per page.

The flush mount album can display panoramic images that sweep across both pages of a double page spread.

Photography by Monique at the Heart Association Fantasy Bridal Expo in Reno

Scott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:22:39 +0000

For the fourth year in a row, Monique and I set up a booth at the Heart Association Fantasy Bridal Expo in the Grand Sierra resort in Reno, NV. This event is a charity fundraiser, so that part is always nice, knowing that your fees go to a good cause. In addition it allows us to catch up with a lot of our friends who are in the business and we don’t get to see a lot. The Reno market is a bit different than the Lake Tahoe wedding market, so we usually only pick up a few weddings each year from the event, but we have fun talking to brides all day. Monique had the idea to build three 30 x 60 inch photo collages, and have them printed at our lab and mounted onto foam board to form the background for our booth. We had fun and did one panel of weddings, one panel of bridal portraits, including lots of boudoir photographs taken while the brides were getting ready, and another panel of maternity and family pictures. I’ll let you guess what got the most interest and attention from all the young brides…..

Here’s a quick look at our booth, with the background panels, and another shot where you can see all our new album offerings in the foreground.