Any tips for Wedding album?

PoleStar

Hi guys.

Got married last year in Spain and have some dvd's of the shots but never got round to getting them printed (how lazy are we!). We never got a chance to go back to Spain and get the photgrapher there to print them and as I have a passing interest in photgraphy, we thought we would takcle this ourselves.

We plan to print the photos and then get decent album for them.

Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations where to print them to get good quality prints (not just drop them into your local chemist jobs ha!) and if anyone has any recommendations of where to get a good album!

Cheers

rymus

did the photographer supply the high-res originals of the shots or just a low res slideshow?

mikeanywhere

As Rymus says. it really depends on the quality of the images you have.

City-Exile

I've got an urge to cover my eyes. I can't bare to watch! Could this be another case of low res. wedding images locked into a DVD slideshow?

rymus

it could well be.... kinda makes the ol stomach go queasy thinking about it alright.

If you've got the high res images, congrats. You're out of the woods. Take your JPEG's and print them anywhere you please. Like www.photobox.ie for example...

If you only have low res images, you'll have to chase down the photographer and see what they can do for you. They'll probably print themselves, send the photos to you and bill you. Or, they might sell you the high res photos which you can then print yourself. The former is more likely as it guarantees recurring revenue for the photographer.

PoleStar

Ha no I am ok guys,

They are high res photos, each photo is approx 10Mb, so from that point of view I am grand.

We kinda got a great deal for our Wedding, and he was a great photographer I have to say and does lot of stuff for Spanish magazines.

Anyways, gettin back to the question, any good places to go for prints and albums. I assume pros have their own places they go, different from "consumer" places or am I wrong?

rymus

You're not wrong. High up on the quality list for consumers would be photobox though. I've always used them, find them great and see no reason to change any time soon.

PoleStar

Hi Rhymus

Thanks for the tip. So photobox is good enough for wedding album quality prints?

Has anyone any good recommendations for a place to get a decent album, the type that would be provided by a wedding photographer?

Or these days do most people go for a "photobook" for their wedding albums? Anyone out there that a) got married or b) does wedding albums that might know?

Plus as a noob I may be around this saturday for Waterford so might see you guys there!

rymus

I think the trend these days is toward photobooks. At least the last few weddings I've been to, they're all getting swanky leather photobooks made up. If t'was me, I'd probably spend a bit of time and effort making up the book on lulu.com or blurb.com, get a nice hardback photobook done up and order 10/20 copies of it. I can't vouch for blurb.com, but the quality from lulu.com is outstanding.

For just getting stuff printed to frame and hang on the wall, photobox is your only man.

Roen

Try Asuka and Graphisutdio as well. I think Graphi do a metal book or something, supposed to be well high quality from what I've read.
How gimmicky or how much of a passing fad that will turn out to be is anyone's guess.

http://www.graphistudio.com/en/index.html

mikeanywhere

Roen wrote:

Try Asuka and Graphisutdio as well. I think Graphi do a metal book or something, supposed to be well high quality from what I've read.

I didnt think Graphistudio was available to joe public!!??!!

440Hz

Just looking at that GraphiStudio... Urgh!!! Its like an American High School Year Book!! All the examples up there look so fake, cheesy and just dreadful! I would HATE a wedding album like that.

Dwilly

Bump - just wondering where the best place to be for a classic leather photo album & mounts, rather than a photobook?

Thx