The new photobooth features a white background for a cool, clean look, as well as props galore.  It is free-standing and open-air – meaning it can accommodate much larger groups than a traditional boxy booth.  If you’d like to add one to your wedding collection, just make sure that your venue has enough space; it requires an indoor space roughly 12 feet square (we can work in slightly smaller spaces too) and works best against a wall or in a corner.  It’s also great to have a table on-hand to display the props, but again we can work around this.  The setup is simple – a studio light plugged into the wall, with a large umbrella to create soft, flattering light, and the background which is held up by two large stands.

The photobooth currently costs $750 plus tax per hour, and includes the high-res, edited images.  We aren’t able to print on-site, however we can offer a quicker turnaround on photobooth photos if you need them for thank you cards and so on.  And now for the special!  If you’d like to add a photobooth to your wedding collection, and can pay in full by the end of this month (May 2012), you can add it on for just $500 plus tax.  Woo-hoo!

And now for what you really wanted to see … some photos, right?  Well, I was all alone when I was testing out the new setup, but I still managed to have some fun with it.  Yes, this is yours truly, goofing off.  Enjoy!

The construction of these albums is top-notch … they really are so much better than everything else that’s out there right now.

And here are a few of my favorite spreads:

These new albums are available with either a round spine (more traditional) or a square spine (more modern). The pages are square cut for an elegant, modern look, and deliciously weighty (look how thick they are!)

There are a number of cover options, including leather wraparound (the most traditional style), photowrap, leather with photo cameo, and this amazing acrylic cover. The acrylic sheet is thick, with a photo mounted underneath. It is sleek, modern, and oooooh so cool.

And what fun would an album post be if I didn’t include a few of my favorite spreads? In fact make that … almost all of the spreads! Thank you Jen and Scott for having such a spectacular wedding at beautiful Belle Mer in Newport, RI. It was a treat designing a sample album for my studio with your images!

Here are some of my favorite spreads from the album … it’s so nice reliving this beautiful wedding through the album.

And here’s the silk bound parent album – notice that these books have a seam down the middle of the page:

And here are the two albums together – the parent album has much thinner pages, so although both books have the same design and page count, the signature album is much thicker and heavier:

And of course I have to share a couple of the spreads too – it’s so fun reliving the wedding day when I design the albums (and it’s *such* a treat getting to look through the finished books before sending them on to their new owners):

Here are some photos of the beautiful books:

I figured it might be useful for comparison to photograph the two books together. The parent album is 8×8, and the main album is 10×10:

And here are some of my favorite spreads from the albums:

And of course I can’t show a guest book without showing a few of my favorite spreads!  Enjoy. 

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I love the look of silver on bronze.  Classy and modern all at the same time. 

The pages lay flat, allowing design across the full spread.  Here are a few of my favorite spreads:

I’m looking forward to designing more of these beautiful albums over the next few months … and I have a couple more awesome sample albums arriving soon, one of which is a massive 20×8 fine art book with a photowrap cover, showcasing some of my favorite images from the last year.  Stay tuned for some photos of that bad boy!

The cover features a full photowrap in a soft matte laminate.  The full wrap means I get to design the whole thing – front, back and spine – and the soft matte laminate is really pretty … and a lot more high end than the consumer versions of these books.

The lay flat pages enable me to design across the seam with very little image loss in the gutter:

And a couple more photos of the open book:

Note that for engagement guest books such as this, I utilize a lot of white space in the design; this is so that your guests have plenty of space to write messages around the photos.  Here are some of my favorite spreads:

And a few more, for fun. 

Will you be purchasing a guest book with photos from your engagement session?  Do you prefer the silk cover (click here for a sample) or the new photo wrap?

The photowrap style means you can have a single photo wrap all the way around the cover, replacing the leather cover.  In this case, I chose one photo for the front and spine, and a smaller, complimentary photo for the back.  I like this design style – it keeps things looking sharp and smart.  Also, note that Karen and Phil ordered two matching parent albums, also photowrap but a different company, in the 8×8 size.  They look good together!

I like posting closeup details of albums to illustrate just how beautifully these things are constructed.  I’ve seen a LOT of albums in my time, and these just can’t be beat!  The pages are thick and heavy, the spine is strong and sharp, the cover is bright and sturdy.  Inside, Kodak Supra Endura paper with UV coating means top quality printing, and the lay-flat panoramic pages mean 100% design flexibility.  Although I often choose not to, it’s nice to know that I *can* design across the seam and not lose any of the image to the gutter.

I’ve been designing a lot of guest books and wedding albums recently, and I’ve definitely refined my design style over the last few months.  I love a clean, simple design with all the attention going to the images:

And a few more of my favorite spreads from this album: