A common question that I’m asked is how should I maintain my album. So here is the scoop, common sense should prevail here. In other words don’t be flipping the pages of the album when you are eating cheese doodles and a soda pop, which I know you won’t be doing.
Your wedding album is made to last generations and is made up of two materials paper and most have a leather covers. The leather is very different then leather that goes on couches and your automobile seats, so try not to get it stained since most of those commercial leather are treated differently.
Now with anything made of paper humidity and temperature changes will affect the album pages. You should not store your album in an area that has high humidity or is damp, that is very bad thing. What will happen is the pages will start to warp, which is common. If this does happen the pages usually will go back to there original form if you move the album to a more temperature controlled environment. You could also place a heavy object on top of the album only if you can evenly distribute the weight. Now all you have to do is leave it alone for a week or two and everything should go back to normal. In other words, storing your album in an attic that is not temperature controlled or heavily insulated is usually a very bad thing. Oh yeah, don’t leave your wedding album on a coffee table that is in direct sunlight for 8 hours a day either.
Since every home is different every album will be affected differently. Depending on the size of the book, the type of paper used and the style of album you purchase. To a certain extent slight page warping is normal. Even my own wedding album that is 6 years old has a slight warp and I always tried to maintain it properly.
I do go over this in greater detail with all my clients when an album is delivered.
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Merry Christmas from our newest addition to our family... Bear the wonder puppy.
As the New Year rolls around the corner we are changing our pricing structure for our custom photography and design studio.
Prices have slightly increased due to time talent and top of the line professional products we now offer.
If you have questions about our 2009 prices, please don't hesitate to contact us at the studio.
Vision Studios Photography
423-339-3461 / 423-584-2541
andrew@visionstudiosphotography.com
This year has been an amazing ride for us here at Vision Studios Photography. Full of excitement and memories we'll remeber for years.
As you've noticed, our blog has gotten a lovely and much needed face lift. In the next month we will also be giving our website a new look as well as our online ordering system.
So if things look different and a little more extraordinary than good. Change is good and it let's people know we really care about our clients and the future of Vision Studios Photography.
We will also be giving our price structure a rehaul and by summer of 2009 we should be moving into a studio location in downtown Cleveland. If all goes well as planned.
We are offering some amazing specials this winter. So stay tuned to check them out this christmas season.
Thanks
-Andy and Rachael
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This last weekend was crazy busy for both my wife and I. Two weddings on Saturday! Not only were we busy shooting weddings it was also our wedding anniversary. I just want to say that Rachael and I have been married for six years now. Every day I thank God for her being in my life. Sharing tears, laughs and the little things that make us smile and enjoy each other as a couple. She's been my biggest critic, my best friend and my biggest fan. She supports me when I've been at some pretty low times and even when I'm at my best. She's made me a better person within these past six years. Thank you for being my wife and best freind through everything we've been through and shared.
I love you
-Andy
Walker Arena
This past weekend was amazing. Prophet Gary Brooks and Apostle Bret Wade were invited by International House of Fire. It is the Church's 8th birthday and I am ecstatic to be part of that tight group of family.
Tune in the next couple of days and see the slideshows from the three day event.
Thanks
-Andy
I decided to start this customer education series with one of the topics I see very often–customers wanting full resolution images on a DVD, and their photographers not “including” it in the package or not offering it at all. This topic can be explained from several different angles (e.g., profitability, reputation and copyright amongst others). First of all, if your photographer does this, be glad, as this means he/she cares about the future of his business and images and will be around for a while. So below are some points you may consider the next time you are presented with this situation.
Profitability:
We, photographers, are image makers, and our revenue comes from selling images that you can proudly hang on your wall. If you are expecting your photographer to “give” you a CD with the high resolution images, then you are expecting him to forefit any revenue from your session or event. How much longer do you expect him/her to stay in business while giving away his/her main source of income.
Reputation:
This one is entirely particular to my studio, and I know some other good photographers do this similarly. We give our hearts and souls in all the sessions we photograph, learning the craft, retouching images, and all other aspects that go into a final product, therefore giving images on a DVD opens the door for a client to print and possibly display and image that we have no control of the final product. When a DVD with images is purchased from us, we do not allow anything bigger than an 8×10 to be printed from it, nor do we allow to public display of these images without our authorization. This is mainly protecting our reputation as image makers. If a client intends to print anything bigger than an 8×10, then it’s probably going in somebody’s wall, on a generic frame, without my signature, my retouching, and more than likely without our printing standards, and this is not acceptable. No amount of money collected during the sale of a DVD is worth a badly printed picture of your work hung on somebody’s wall for the next 20 years.
In our studio when an image is purchased for a wall portrait, we retouch the image to perfection and print it with labs that understand our standards, and if it’s not perfect, we don’t deliver it until it is. Our eyes are trained to see things in the images you may not see when printing your 8×10 at Wal Mart. We print on the best paper in the industry, frame it with acid free mats and non-glare glass, and frames that compliment the images, but most of all with a signature in silver ink that proudly represents an original finished piece of art, and I hope that’s the way you look at your photographer’s work and respect it as such.
Until next post.
Hello everyone…
After hearing about issues between photographers’ rules and methodologies and customers’ apathy towards them, or lack of acceptance, I’ve decided to start a new category on my blog which will house a series of posts dedicated to educating clients. I’ve seen countless posts in other wedding websites where brides or brides-to-be comment about a particular photographer’s method of doing things, and response after response the aggravation grows, and I just think if the clients understood why certain things are done the way they are done, this wouldn’t happen.
That being said, after it’s all said and done, the customer and client may still not agree. This is perfectly fine, as we live in a free market, and if an agreement is not reached, then the next step would be to move on to the next vendor that fits your particular demands. The topics I will be explaining will be very much directly related to my studio, and my method of doing things. Even though I share these views with a lot of my colleagues, you are not forced to understand my point, but indeed entitled to an explanation.
So lookout for these Customer Educational posts every week or so as I am sure you will find them interesting and informational. I will try to keep them short and to the point.
We traveled off to Minnesota this past weekend. My (Andy) mom was getting remarried to Stan Muenchow. Not only was it a my mom's wedding day it was also a family reunion and little vacation for our family. It was an awesome wedding and I'm glad to know she married a very genuine man that I am proud to welcome into our family. Congrats Mom and Dad!
Tune in Friday for their SlideShow.
Thanks -Andy and Rachael
