Ames Wedding Photography~Albums, albums, albums

Posted on March 4, 2010

Good morning everyone!  I have an increasing number of wedding clients that aren’t local to Ames, and I wanted to try and give them a little taste of the different albums that I offer.  I offer three styles of albums.  Of course, seeing the albums first hand and being able to touch them and examine them is the best way to appreciate the differences, but I hope this will give some of you a general idea of the quality of wedding albums that I offer.  Keep in mind, these albums are also great add ons to a portrait session.  They also make cherished memory books for high school seniors and a baby’s first year.

The first is the coffee table book.  These are printed onto heavy weight paper using a 4 color press printed process at a professional printing lab.

This is an image of a coffee table book with an upgraded canvas wrap cover. The texture is hard to see in images of this book, but it is a nice rich looking fine texture.

This is an image showing the binding of the coffee table books. These books lay nearly flat when open.

Coffee table books come standard with a leather cover in several different colors. This one is shown in classic black.

My favorite albums are the fine art line.  These are printed with archival inks and are hand bound to last generations.  The colors in these pages really pop off the page.  This album also offers panoramic spreads, but there is not cut in the middle.

This is an example of a custom designed cover with an upgraded leather trim binding. Notice the great sheen there is on the cover! These are really beautiful albums.

Here is the detail of the binding on the fine art line.

Here is an example of a full spread in a fine art album.

A detail image of the page thickness in the fine art line.

The third album style that I offer is the library bound and it comes in MANY high end cover options.  Currently, I only have the basic black album.  I promise to add some additional images when I get a more exciting sample.  These albums are top of the line and contain real professionally printed photographs, but they are flush mounted to the album pages.  These are albums that are intended to last for generations.  The pages are thicker than either the coffee table style or the fine art style, so the books are sturdy and substantial.

A classic black library style album. This line comes in a HUGE variety of color and material options ranging from silks and brocades to animal-friendly leathers, to rich grained leather.

A spread in a library style album. There is a very small slice between the spreads. This is because the album uses real photographic prints and if you crease a photograph it discolors over time.

Detail image of one style of binding.