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I am watching this thread bc we are in the same boat. I also want to know of anyone who created their own flush mount. How did you do it? Who/what did you use. My photog is not an option here as he has been discovered to be a moron....
Hi! Ok, we'll watch together :)
P.S. I feel for you. My videographer shot amazing footage but putting it together is his weakness.
Think of your album as a book that tells the story of your wedding. Start with a few prep pictures, then go to the first look pictures (if you had one), then the ceremony and the reception.
What made each part of the story unique and meaningful to you? Was it your girls helping you into your dress? Was it your face as you saw your groom for the first time? Was it the way your dad held you tightly as you danced together?
Pick images that tell the story, not just pictures that you feel that you "have" to put in there.
All too often I have brides who try jam pack an album with a ton of pictures because they have so many to choose from. Only the put the pictures that are essential to the story and skip the ones that aren't (most of the family formals could fall into this category).
Is there a set amount of pages that you're dealing with MsHymanRoth ? That influences a lot of the picture choices. But remember, resist the urge to shove as many pictures as you can in the album just because you have a lot to choose from.
With albums, as with most things, less is more :)
Hey guys, this is the process I tell my brides and use myself when putting together studio samples:
It's really a matter of going through it over and over until you have it fine tuned and you absolutely can not live without those images.
If your image numbers are more then what your photographer allocated, see if they will work with you on adding the extras. I think 120 is max for any album under 12x12 and that is really pushing it. If you want your images to run bigger then you need to have much less. I've also had overwhelmed brides give me a larger selection of what they like and let me choose from there as they couldn't get their choices to a manageable amount. Your photographer may be able to do that for you as well.
Editing down is one of the hardest parts of my job so I can completely understand how overwhelming it can be.
@stlginkgo all professional flush mount album companies out there only work with pro photographers. There are a small handful of companies that sell consumer flush albums, but the quality does not live up to the investment and have been known to fall apart after a few years. Pro albums are usually hand made with archival materials so they are a huge investment, even for your photographer. If you have full reproduction rights and your photographer doesn't sell albums then you probably could find another photographer willing to put together one for you.
Good luck!
I don't have any advice but I wanted to say WELCOME BACK!! I was wondering where you went, are you going to post some pics?
PizzutiStudios has really good information. There are some companies who sells flush mounted albums with matts or self-mount with sticky page. With those type of albums you may not be able to put that many photos. You can have coffee table book if you really want to have that many photos in one album. They are press printed and bound to the cover. They don't print on photo paper and it looks like high quality story book. It might be why it is also known as magazine style album. You can have so many pages with this kind of album compare to professional flush mount albums. All professional flush mount albums are printed digitally from pro photo labs on Kodak or Fuji paper. Since they get printed at the higher quality, not like 1 hour express photo print, it requires details specs in colors. It is the reason why most of flush mount companies only deal with pro photographers to keep their quality high. Once they get printed on photo paper, prints get mounted to a hard board, there are compress hard paper board and plastic board which can make different length of its lifetime. Because of thickness of each page, it becomes heavier than coffee table books. If you have rights for your photos, you can find a photographer who wants to do designs and purchase an album for you. Even though they didn't hold your event, I don't see why they refuse to work with you. Find the album style you like then check out consumer reviews. A photographer should be able to order an album from any company.
I'll be putting together our albums myself. We ordered just over 100 4x6 photos with a few other sizes as well. We will pick out an album and use the frames we've already purchased as well as other frames that we've been given. Yes, they may not last as long as professional quality albums, but I think that by doing this myself, it's going to be more meaningful for us. I've done many other types of albums for other events, so I have experience with this sort of thing. :-)
Please share some photos with us!
Here is our album layout. It has 85 photos. I hope it helps!
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/helloooo-beautifulalbum
Hey my wedding was Oct. 17th and I haven't made an album yet either. Our photog is still waiting on us to choose the pics for our album, but I just don't feel like doing it yet.
I feel your pain. Some photographers are really good and have a vision and and an eye for what pics would work and what doesn't at the first glance. We amateurs would just have to do it by trial and error and with lots of iterations. Check Anne's blog out.
MsH: Definitely share some pics! We've heard so much about your drool worthy wedding... let's see some wedding porn! haha :)
Sorry to bump up an old post but I too would love to see your pictures, ANY pictures Ms. Hyman Roth! Congrats to you and good luck with the album.
Ditto, I'd love to see your pictures! I'm also bookmarking this thread because it has some great tips!
I just went through this. The whole thing probably took me over 10 hours, which is insane considering how lazy I am. But I see this as the reward of my hard work planning the wedding. I really enjoy looking at how everything came together and giving myself a pat on the back as I go through the pics.
My method was:
- I had 2000 images from my photographer and 400 from my uncle (photography is his hobby and some of his shots were than our pro ones!) so first I combined them into one.
- Then I went through each one by one...Saving all of the ones I like into a folder, which was more than half.
- Then because I had a about 7-8 different versions of the same shot in most cases, I had to click back and forth between each one to pick the best ("I look better here but husband's eyes are closed, so eliminate that" etc). That was a painstaking process.
- I limited myself to 300 photos because my immediate goal was to make a couple Facebook albums, so some that I was on the fence about I saved them into an "extra" folder to include them later if there was room.
- I tried to have variety (some face shots, some body shots, some of each family, make sure each guest is featured at least once, some romantic, some funny etc).
- I also forced myself to leave in a few I look terrible in but it still captured a great moment.
- Final step was to sort everything in chronological or logical order since they came from different sources and rename them by sorting order in the folder.
Next step will be to print them and place them into a book. We're getting an album from our photographer too, but it won't include my uncle's photos and I am too proud of my work to not follow through at this point.
It took us to the end of January to order our album. Then a few months for the photog to design it. Then I couldn't decide if I wanted to make changes or not. Then she went on vacation and could order it so, the album finally came in yesterday. July 15th.
Glad I'm not the only one taking a ridiculously long time to make an album. Our photographer gave us the CDs and we have the rights. I am going to do an album on adorama but having trouble getting motivated.
I may be entering this discussion way too late, but you may want to consider using a graphic designer to help you wade through your photos, design your layouts, help you choose an album and order the album for you.
As a graphic designer myself, specialzing in wedding albums, I know that the hardest part is narrowing down the number of photos. The rule of thumb is to use between 2 and 3 images per page on average. Therefore, a 35 page album would use about 105 photos at the most. I tell my clients that if they just can't get it down to a reasonable number, don't worry, I'll do that for them!
Using a graphic designer is signicantly less expensive than using a photographer -- and the albums we have access to are from the very same professional print-to-bind companies that photograghers use, but without the mark up. I spend a lot of time educating my clients about the variety of album options out there and help them choose the right one for their taste and budget. My favorite sources are Black River Imaging, Zookbinders, Finao, NationsPhotoLab and BayPhoto.
My advice is to make sure you review a designers' portfolio carefully to be sure their design taste matches yours. And make sure you find someone is is patient, flexible, and more than willing to make your changes at no extra cost. Susan Gallagher
First off don't feel bad about procrastinating. Almost all of our clients order albums and none of them ever get started before 6 months. On average a year is about the time most people need to decompress from the wedding. Is your photographer not designing the album for you? We have found it's much easier if we just do an initial design ourselves and let the client make changes to it. Designing a cohesive album that tells the story of the day is really an artform, and if you have never done it before the first time will make you want to pull your hair out. If you're in charge of 100% of the design process you should definitely narrow the photos down. We never deliver 2000 photos, that's way too many! That would drive me crazy! Try and get it down to a manage number of favorites like 200 or so. And if your photographer is providing the album find out what their process is for album design. You may stressing needlessly if they do the design for you.
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It has been like 6 months since my wedding and finally I am ready to sit down and create an album of wedding pictures :)
I know you might be thinking WTH is taking you so long, but seriously, life got crazy for a while!
It took me months to adjust to my new life as a wife, to come down from the thrill of being engaged-planning a wedding-have the wedding etc.
I got my pictures back a couple months ago and I have been procrastinating ... it is a fault of mine ... I do that often :P and now I am whipping myself into shape and forcing myself to get things done!
I have around 200 pictures in my slideshow and about 2000 or more pictures that are all amazing from the wedding.
How do you pick out a wedding album?
Is there something cool and amazing, new or tips or anything I should know? Thank you :)