As I promised, here is the album design of Marina and Slavic Wedding. It has a few extra pages I have designed for them, which didn’t end up in the final version, they have been edited out, but I wanted to show you all wonderful spreads I designed for them and have a complete story. If you get this by email, you may not see the embedded slide show, please, visit the blog to view it. Start it by clicking ‘Play’ button on the right corner. To see it full screen, click on ‘Full Screen’ button in the right corner.
Enjoy! Let me know what do you think by leaving your comments below. Thank you!
If you haven’t see it yet on my web site, here is the album I have put together from love story session of Mariana and Sergey from last year. The photo session took place in Pearl District in Portland. To play the slide show, click ‘Play’ button in the lower right corner.
Enjoy!
Tip: Click a button in the right lower corner to see it in full screen.
I am finishing working on wedding album for Marina and Slavic. It is going to be an awesome album! Check out one of their spreads. Stay tuned for the whole album slide show next week.
PS. The album slide show is posted now under Marina and Slavic Wedding Album post, or click image to view it in a separate window here.
My son Pavlo started taking piano lessons. We wanted to see if he likes it and looks like he is making a good progress and enjoys it. I hope he will keep playing and not get bored soon. We borrowed a digital keyboard from a friend of us, but now considering getting a real instrument for him. So, if you know anyone who is selling acoustic piano, please, let me know. Or I can trade it for services.
Did you know if you get your wedding album page damaged for some reason, you can get it repaired for a small fee? The company, I order my albums from has such service. So, if anything happens to your album, don’t worry, it can be fixed. Isn’t it awesome?
Looks like when I don’t post for a few month, I have a lot to tell and post almost every day.
The fall came and we are going to get nice foliage colors soon. I have decided to through away one free portrait or love story session (if you are getting married soon). If you would like to get some pictures taken for your Christmas card or renew your facebook or odnoklassniki photos, it is your chance to win.
Here is what you have to do. Leave your comment here after this post and I will randomly draw a winner on October 15, 2010. Leave your email address, so you can be notified. The winner will be announced here on this blog.
You can select from two styles: all color or all black and white. If you select black and white style, all photos will be taken in black and white in camera. Please, make your selection in your comment.
The fine print: The photo session must take place in Portland metro area before December 1, 2010. 1-2 people or small family up to 4 people. The photo session will last from 60 to 90 min max. Prints or images are sold separately.
OK, now, share the news with your friends! That’s it!
A few month ago, I got a project to create a wedding album from existing prints from the wedding which happened back in 1984 in Lviv, Ukraine – 25 years ago! I received a bunch black and white paper prints took by some amateur photographer and a few color prints from some photo studio. I think, I remember when that studio was located and, I think, I was photographed there once as a wedding guest. Anyway, all those pictures where very old, some where damaged over time and some very faded and discolored. Especially, the color photographs. My task was to pick the images, arrange them into a story, scan them, retouch, restore and make an album. Right away, I knew what kind of album would work for this project. The company, I order my wedding albums from, is offering some matted albums. They look very classic, just what I needed. I have to say, that it was fun to work on restoring old photos and giving them a new life. Otherwise, who knows what would happen to them… probably they would be laying somewhere in a closet for next 25 year… totally forgotten… I always was making albums for my clients. That is the only way to preserve your memories… Media disks are not able to store your images forever… they gonna last just for a few years. They just get unreadable over time… Technology may change… I remember, 20 years ago I was using floppy disks to store data. Now, modern computers even don’t have floppy drives in them anymore. What if I had my wedding pictures on a floppy drive? I won’t be able to read them now. They were replaced by CDs, now we use DVDs, which will be replaced by Bluray disks in a few years… Then, who know what else gets invented and what gets updated… Looks like paper has the longest life… We have books which were printed hundreds years ago… still readable. Albums is the best way to preserve your memories.
This is before and after pictures of one photograph. Amazing how over time colors faded and what modern technology can do to restore them. The colors still have that look produced by film made by Ukrainian film making company SVEMA.
I photographed Zarie and Igor Wedding last year. It was good to see them again for a short sitting in downtown Vancouver. Don’t they look cute together?
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