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KISS Flushmount Wedding Albums

February 15, 2010

I just love my KISS wedding photography album. I got it a few months back and have been meaning to show it off online. So far every bride who has touched it can hardly look at anything else.

It comes in a variety of colors, all super soft leather. This one is smoldering brown. It’s pages are thick. It’s 12×12 leaving plenty of room for really big photos, or designs with lots of images. I designed this sample album using Kayla & Skyler’s wedding photos in Salem, Oregon.

And then there are Little Kisses… You can get 4×4 duplicates of these books that are fun to toss in your purse or give to your bridal party. They come with the same covers, thick pages, and photographic prints. Linen versions have just come out too. I need to get my hands on one of these.

If you read my blog often, you probably realize I get excited about albums. I photograph plenty of weddings where the bride and groom receive a high resolution dvd as their end product, without a book, but I just love when the couple wants a wedding album. Designing the pages and having something tangible to hold onto just makes me feel like the wedding photography is truly complete.

I almost forgot. They come in these fun pretty flowered linen bags!

Wedding Photography Album by Portland Oregon Wedding Photographer, Jessica Shepard

Kiss Wedding Albums by Oregon Wedding Photographer Jessica Shepard

Flushmount Wedding Album of Salem Oregon Wedding

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Album Design {Portland Wedding Photographer}

November 24, 2009

The first wedding album I designed, I was so scared. I actually did piles of research on how to do it! For quite a few albums, I painstakingly used Photoshop. It’s not a bad tool but it’s just not meant for layouts. This summer I discovered Photojunction, which rocks my world (not a phrase I normally use but it’s just the only way to explain it). It lets me have so much more freedom to play around with photo layouts, and works seamlessly with Photoshop for the final steps.

I just thought after yesterday’s post a few wedding album layouts seemed like a good follow-up.

Flushmount Wedding Album - Portland Weddings

Portland Wedding Photographer and Album Designer

Professional Wedding Album Design by Portland Photographer, Jessica Shepard

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Eco-friendly Wedding Album, and a Toddler

September 24, 2009

Yesterday I delivered my first eco-friendly wedding album, to Christine, the wedding coordinator at the Portland Ecotrust building, an amazing wedding venue. The building has tall industrial style ceilings, lots of brick, and a rooftop terrace with a view of downtown Portland.

Ecotrust is across from Jamison Square, which made for an interesting morning. I did something I don’t normally do when I have a business meeting. I brought my toddler along. I don’t know how some moms do it, having a business discussion and having the little one there. I’ve seen moms make it look easy, and thought I could pull it off. My energetic darling sitting on my lap lasted about a whole three minutes!

So we left Ecotrust and I think let’s go see the fountain at Jamison. My little one, Mackenzie, runs in. I can barely get her leggings and shoes off quick enough. I roll up my jeans, take off my blazer, and look around. At least I’m not the only one whose toddler is swimming in a diaper.

Thirty minutes of fun later, I realize the parking meter has definitely expired, so I grab my protesting daughter out of the water, walk down the street barefoot, with my baby (she now seems like a baby again) on my hip in a soaking wet diaper. I get to the car to find that I don’t even have the diaper bag with me! Luckily, there is a spare dipe in the Ergo and a towel loose in the trunk. I manage to change Mackenzie into a dry diaper in the trunk, and get her buckled back in her carseat for the trip home.

Business and Mama time – lesson learned. Keep them separate, as I have usually done. Considering, the meeting went fine and we had a blast playing in the Pearl. I am usually very prepared and give whoever I am with 100% of me, which certainly was not the case yesterday morning.

Back to the wedding album…

This green wedding album is from Wild Magnolia Design, in Santa Monica, California. It is handmade by a small sustainable company. The cover I choose for Ecotrust is a peace silk, accompanied by a handmade end orange/brown end paper. These albums come with different endpaper options, and a variety of covers, including hemp. The pages are made of thick recycled paper, and are archival.

Eco-friendly wedding albums

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Eco-Friendly Wedding Albums

June 20, 2009

I just received my paper samples from Couture books, and am excited to start designing my new sample Earth Album. The samples look great. All the papers are at least 50% recycled, and there is a white felt that feels super luxurious to the touch. I really want to make this book as green as possible so I plan to go with the 100% recycled paper, but will give clients the other options too. I’m undecided upon 10×10 or 10×13 for size but it will have a custom photo cover, hand torn recycled pages, sewn into the binding, and somewhere between 50 to 100 pages. (I’m aiming for 100 but that might be overly ambitious.)

I also just ordered a goodie box from Wild Magnolia Design. At first I thought, “well I’ve already found a green album maker” but the two companies make such completely different books I think offering them both will work well. The Wild Magnolia albums are printed on eco-friendly cotton paper, have peace silk or hemp hard covers, and are mounted similar in style to a traditional flushmount.

Speaking of flushmount albums, I still plan to offer a leather bound photographic printed flushmount album too, as well as coffee table books. While these are not very green, I have given this lots of thought and done some research. I have found a company that gets all their materials locally, manufactures in the US, and is responsible with their environmental practices. An album is something you order once and lasts many lifetimes. Considering this longevity, I feel it is a sustainable choice as well.

What I need to find now is a coffee table book maker (for casual albums and guestbooks) that uses recycled paper, and natural materials for covers!

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Green Wedding Photography Package

May 2, 2009

I am excited to introduce my green wedding photography package!

As I’ve mentioned before, it is a goal of mine to make my business as green as possible.  A big part of that is living sustainably but I wanted to find a way to further incorporate this so I create a wedding package that is sustainable.

It includes unlimited wedding day photography and an engagement session. You will get a high resolution dvd of your digital negatives.  This means there is no reason to print photos that you do not want.  You will have an online gallery so your friends and family can easily view your photographs.  Instead of having to carry prints or a book to show your friends in person, you get an Ipod Touch loaded with your proofs.

Your favorite photo from either your engagement session or your wedding, will be printed as an 8×10 and framed by Portland’s Green House Framing.  They use reclaimed lumber to create the wood for their frames, and offer recycled mats from Twisted Limb Paperworks.

You will receive a sustainable wedding album.  These are handmade in the USA on recycled paper, and the whole process is done using wind-powered energy.  These books are 10 inches, have a custom image on the cover, and include 36 pages.

Five percent of the proceeds of this package will be donated to purchase carbon offset credits, which should be enough to offset the carbon footprint of most weddings.

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