K.W. Masters Photography offers our customers 3 basic Wedding Album layouts. One of the things that we do not like to see is a bride having a beautiful collection of her wedding day memories, tucked away in envelopes for no one to see. This IMHO is almost as bad as paying $3k for a wedding video that you watch normally twice:The first and last time. Our survey of couples seem to support this. (Videos are great for those people who could not attend the event). It is for this reason we offer you 1/2 off of our Fully Matted Album on selected packages.
Pictures on the other hand can be put in frames and displayed though out your house and at work. All of our in house printed pictures are printed with Archival Quality (meaning it will last at least 75 years exposed in Direct Sun light will not begin to fade). Store these in a Custom Album and they will last much, much longer. I have witnessed people who bought low cost photography services, only to see these memories fade away in under 7 years. The old saying "It pays to buy Quality" sure applies here.
Fully Matted 8x10 Album
This is a beautifully bound Album with between 12 or 18 pages in it (24 to 36 prints). All mattes are fixed size of 8x10. We custom print images that display better at different crops so that they can be placed in this Album. Make no mistake. This is not your $20 Walmart special, but rather a beautiful looking Wedding Album to store your 8x10 images in. All of these images are printed on Epson's Luster Finish paper with Epson Inks for the highest color gamut and archival quality durability.
This is another standard type of matted Wedding Album but this time with custom inserts for your 8x10, 5x7's, 4x5's, ovals or others. It is a beautiful album and can now contain different image sizes.
We also can design a fully digital matted album that is then custom bound with a bonded leather cover.
For us, this is the best way to present and store you Wedding Images. You are now not limited to any prefixed sizes. In fact, because the album is a Lay-Flat album, your 10x10 or 12x12 pages become Huge- double in size allowing a full 12x24 in spread (we call this a double page spread). Artistic layout here is extremely important and Irene is a master at image layout (no pun intended). All kinds of things can be designed into this Album from different backgrounds, to repeating patterns, to black & white, closeups, etc. We take each double page layout and have it tell it's story of your wedding day. One couple for example, went to the trouble of painting and posting sign markers to the church and reception for their guests. You would normally never want to select this print but put in a designed album, it is an important memory of this special day as are signs on the limo, etc.
But we are not finished yet. In our Wedding Information Page, we talk about the 4 elements that make an image great. The 4th Element here is Photoshop. Every images is inspected and enhanced in PS to make it look awesome. This of course takes lots of time on our part. Our pricing is currently at 1/3 of that of some studios and our image quality meets or exceeds most other studios meaning that you are getting great value for your investment.
One element not mentioned is group shots. Ever seen a photograph taken with a wide angle lens where the lens distorts the size and shape of all people at the outer edge of the image? This is called Volume Anamorphosis. There are also a number of other lens corrections that need to be applied to images. We correct for the 6 or more common lens distortions that occur even with the best of equipment used.
We process all of our images in a special raw processor that sharpens and also corrects these lens distortions. It can take over a day on our Raptor quad core i-7 computer to process all of your images and we have one of the best computer currently available. It also does a lot more to make your images look their best. We know that top professional photographers use this software, but we do not know of anyone else in this area using it. They don't even know about it. I will blog about it in the up and coming weeks. You just might call this our 6th Element in creating a great photographic.
But let us not forget the 4th Element, Photoshop. Every top photographer today uses some type of image processor. I say top as many people will try to do less hoping you don't notice or some times one can miss something. Our images have my name on it so I want to make sure it looks it's best. We try to make the image look good in the camera. That is the rule in professional photography. The fact is that today you must use and apply many different Photoshop processing and enhancements to wow the crowd (and even yourself). I consider it like an artist painting a picture. He should never think how long it is taking to produce the work and what he is going to get paid for it. You might call me a poor business person, so be it. If I know that you really want this image and to make it look awesome I have to work on it pixel by pixel for two hours so be it. In some cases we can charge for these enhancements but not in the majority of cases. We want to give you memories that you are proud of and of course will tell all of your friends about us. That is how we get paid in the long run.
November to March Sale
Don't forget that between November 2011 and March of 2012 we offer a 10% discount on selected packages over $1500.
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