Hi fellow photographers.

Wedding photography has evolved in the last 10 years, not only with the style of photography but also with the final product delivered to the client...The Wedding Album.
Pre-digital days, the album was Traditionally laid out. Meaning the album would either have 1 print per page (usually an 8x10 ) or 2 prints per page. Fast forward to around 7 years ago, the "Digital Storybook" became a fad. Something different. It gave a new look and feel not only to the album but the the photos as well. Now we have all the plug-ins ever imaginable to "enhance" our photos. We can even tone our photos purple/blue or orange in a click. We don't even need to use any filters on our lenses to get the "soft romantic blur" or the "star filter". Anyway, what I really want to know is how many of us still offer our clients a "Tradtional Wedding Album". When I say traditional, you still use all the enhancements ever imaginable but dont use the collage or storybook layout. I personally loved the digital album when it first came out... but I still prefer the look and feel of a Traditional Album. What about you guys? Do you still offer this?

I still like the traditional album although I don't sell it anymore unless requested.

The only thing I don't like about traditional album is that you are limited to album maker's matt selection. It is almost like doing a digital album using a template software.

For some clients, I use digital layout but the look is still very much traditional matted pictures. The beauty of it is I dictate the dimension and placement of pictures.

just my experience
Dino

I still offer the traditional album for my clients with really low budget and cannot afford the cost of the digital layout. In my opinion the traditional album truly reflects the style and talent of the photographer. I've seen great photos that lost impact because it only became a part of a collage and could very well stood well on it's own.

If I were to make my own wedding album, I would prefer the traditional album. :)

I like what Pilar is doing, using high-end traditional matted album with her classy photos. Who could ask for more?

where do you get your albums? is there a link so I could browse the company's product catalog? thanks a lot!

Here's my two centavos...

While the majority of photographers here favor the digital album, I would like to throw some points why NOT to use the digital album.

1) Digital Albums are permanent- majority of albums here are mounted directly on the album itself, so if something was to go wrong with a page, the whole album would be destroyed because trying to replace a page would probably mean destruction of an album.

2) There is a strong possibility that the photo will fade and when it does, the album will look stupid. Most photographers will use their one hour lab to print their photos and tack it on the album with rubber cement or whatever cheap adhesives they can find. We have photos developed by labs of our son who was born five years ago and some of them are already showing signs of fading. Once we were in a bridal fair and we looked at some loose photos of an excellent photographer who used to shoot primarily film. When we saw the photos of weddings that were photographed around 1998 they all showed signs of fading. Now if you had a traditional album, all you would need to do is reprint the faded or damaged photo and plop it back into the album. Can't do that with digital albums.

3) Most digital albums are cheesy. Its true but most wedding photographers have the tendency to put too many images in one page thinking that more is better. Maybe this is their selling point to clients. Maybe that is why many of the albums look mundane because quality will suffer when you have to edit tons of photos for an album. On the average, Pilar's traditional album will have around seventy photos only. Better to edit properly seventy photos than to sloppily rush through say two hundred fifty of them.

OT: Hello Sir I'm a photography enthusiast, I would like to asked if where Can
Buy the traditional photo album now adays...pls send me the address or links

thanks

hi joel,

a quick visit to hidalgo will answer your question. Cheap "White" can be found inside the Illusions complex, you can also try Danny Soleta and V-ART. :)

Hi. I would like to ask what type of paper use and printing done for a digital photo album album. I am currently making one (my own version of our wedding) and I noticed that the photo pages of the copy that was given to us were sort of laminated or protected with a thin layer of plasticlike material. Are the minilabs offering such services? what do you think is the best type of paper to use? (glossy,metallic, etc). Thank you very much for your help.

Hi. I would like to ask what type of paper use and printing done for a digital photo album album. I am currently making one (my own version of our wedding) and I noticed that the photo pages of the copy that was given to us were sort of laminated or protected with a thin layer of plasticlike material. Are the minilabs offering such services? what do you think is the best type of paper to use? (glossy,metallic, etc). Thank you very much for your help.

Album suppliers usually put a lacquer or something of that sort to protect the prints from scratch or drops of liquid. From my experience, it's not the printers that put the lacquer on the prints but the album supplier. We've done an album using the classic paper and also using metallic prints. We really liked the metallic prints, fortunately, the client did also. The thing with metallic prints is that it's shininess will somehow be affected by the lacquer. From what I saw, it might have decreased the shininess by something like 25%. And by the way, because of this fact, the album supplier we are using does not, by default, lacquer prints made on metallic paper. You have to specifically request it thereby it's like you are signing a waiver to them that you know what will happen to your prints.

This is just from experience so this may not be so with your album suppliers there or others may have different experience/opinion.

Cheers!

Marco

3) Most digital albums are cheesy. Its true but most wedding photographers have the tendency to put too many images in one page thinking that more is better. Maybe this is their selling point to clients. Maybe that is why many of the albums look mundane because quality will suffer when you have to edit tons of photos for an album. On the average, Pilar's traditional album will have around seventy photos only. Better to edit properly seventy photos than to sloppily rush through say two hundred fifty of them.

:Grin: Oh so true... Chief complaint of most layout artists... 'Forced to squeeze too many photographs in one page... It's easier though if the album is seamless but in most cases are not...

I continue to offer the traditional album for clients with tight budgets. But personally,
I still like classic look and feel of the traditional album.

I continue to offer the traditional album for clients with tight budgets. But personally,
I still like classic look and feel of the traditional album.

Hey Allan, You know these things are trends... They come and go, but the classics always linger... Maybe more Avant Garde wedding photographers should revive traditional albums at these Wedding Fairs... They'd reach their audience swifter...:Grin:

hey earl! i agree! i still feel the some years down the road, the traditional
album will make a major comeback

@Amy

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@Amy

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tsk. oo nga. there are proper places in this forum to post it. :Thinking:

sorry medyo off-topic

but have you guys heard of 'picture books'? they have a kiosk in Alabang TownCenter, I think they use the picture layout in i-life and outsource the printing to fuji, P995 for 8X10 and 1k+ for hardbound, 120 images ( that's what the staff told me )
well honestly I think they have a market, well if clients will just ask for proofs and skip the album maybe they can ask 'picture books' to make it for them (I do hope not)