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March 12th, 2009 in Uncategorised by


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What does a photographer do when their client wants something ‘a bit different’ for their wedding day? Ask Steve and Heidi of Aim 2 Please Photography. That’s exactly what they were asked by Katherine and Steve who were married at a stunning golf course resort north of Toronto on a warm spring day.

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The bride and groom were married by the bride’s Grandparents, who are both members of the Salvation Army, then headed off to several locations around the resort where Steve and Heidi has set specific shots up. They posed with chairs in a grassy field, under a white canopy bed and set up a shoot with big lights outside the hotel after dark.

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This wedding turned out to be a wedding of many firsts for Steve and Heidi. Their shooting format and album design included several elements they hadn’t experimented with before.

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They used 16×9 cropping of their images, incorporated text into their album, and designed the album to specifically exploit and make use of the negative space on the page, to compliment the size manipulation and alignment of the images. Their choice of album size and format was also a first.

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They chose a Queensberry 18×10 Horizontal Pagemount album with Grass Leather cover, Black mats and Silver pages – choosing the horizontal layout to parallel their 16×9 image cropping.

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Click here to see a slideshow of Katherine and Steve’s album

 

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    • Best of 2008 – Part 2

    January 29th, 2009 in Uncategorised by


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    Wading through our “how-to” posts was quite a job. Trying to single out the best was just as difficult, but worth the effort.

    Here are my favourites. Hopefully you’ll find them handy when dealing with Queensberry and Photojunction, and evaluating your own workflow…

    There’s so much good stuff in the  Smooth Sailing series I reckon you should check them all, but here are a few:

    Photo Front covers (easy peasy) - If designing Photo Front covers sounds hard. It’s not. Here’s how to easily do it.

    What can delay your orders? –  Here are a few simple things that frequently delay people’s orders (long delays in some cases). Interestingly, our staff sometimes end up double-checking things to head off ‘could-be problems‘.

    Titles in PJ Remix – There’s no standard “title” aperture in PJ Remix, so how do you add a title? There are actually two ways.

    Below are some more useful posts which walk you through ordering your printing from Queensberry.

    Designing and exporting your design
    Remix Order Wizard and LabFTP
    Sending us just your Cover Image

    Cheers, Nigel

    PS Why not check out the various Categories in the right-hand column of this page to discover your own good stuff.

     

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    • Best of 2008 – Part 1

    January 28th, 2009 in Uncategorised by


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    The New Year is a great time to stop, take a look around, absorb what you’ve achieved, and focus on what the year ahead offers.

    I’ve just done the absorb bit. Gone back and had a look at what we’ve posted over the past year. I found some really great stuff I’d forgotten about! No doubt you’ve forgotten or missed some of these posts too so over the next few days we’ll bring you our favourite posts of 2008. 

    There’s not much of a criteria – just posts that really stood out to us. I hope they do to you too.

    We’ll start by engaging your senses. Today we’ve picked a couple of really interesting interviews, and two gorgeous albums we featured last year. Enjoy.

    • From DJ to Rock star – NZIPP 2007 Wedding photographer of the year Steve Sharp talks to us about how he went from cheap-and-cheerful to high end in five years. He talks about money and productivity and shares one of his albums with us.
    • Red and white all over - Matt and Enna of Grazier Photography reflected the details of this wedding in a stunning red and white album.
    • Wedding venues, valued partners - Relationships with local wedding venues are a great way to build a strong wedding and portrait business. This beautiful album by Simon Whitten rests on the piano in the drawing room of  the luxury castle hotel Swinton Park in Yorkshire.

    Tomorrow we’ll have the top tips, how-to’s and marketing posts of 2008.

    See you then

    Nigel

     

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    • Back to nature

    November 11th, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Heading back to where they first met, Stephanie and Adam married in the hilly pastures of rural Berkshires, just west of Massachusetts. Their naturally beautiful day was captured by Danielle Zielinski.

    They chose a remote farm as the perfect venue and married on a grassy knoll under a cherry tree; then shared drinks on the lawn, and celebrated at their reception in the barn.

    Danielle’s brief was to capture the natural, unstructured beauty of the day – and it was this style that inspired the design of the album, and presentation of the photographs.

    A Rimu timber cover set the natural tone of this 12×12 feature album from the get-go. The couple wanted a timeless, classic look inside, and chose matted pagemount pages with black mats and ivory pages – black page edging finishing the look.

    Danielle sent us this comment from Stephanie and Adam about their album: “We’re absolutely impressed and delighted by the work that Danielle, and Queensberry, put into the photographs and the album. We’ve received so many compliments about it! We really will treasure the album for many years to come.”

    Note: We’ve recently discontinued Timber covers, although if you have a display sample we expect to be able to supply them for some time yet.

    To view a slideshow of the album click here.

     

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    • Stand Out

    October 23rd, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Michael and Anna Costa have been touring the US over the past few months sharing their secrets at PUG conferences and events.

    We’re their preferred album supplier so we designed an 18×12 Duo for them to take on tour. The objective was to demonstrate the value of differentiation: how great presentation can help you stand out and build your studio profile. So how did it go?

    We received this note from them: “I wanted to tell you the album is drop dead gorgeous. The hundreds of people that saw it absolutely loved it! It couldn’t have got a better response.  

    “There’s just nothing quite like a Queensberry album. Because people got to hold it and flip through it in person, they really recognised the difference we have been talking about in our sessions. Now the only problem is wiping the drool stains off it.”

    That pretty much sums up the reaction we’re after from both you and your bride. It also goes to show the value of sample albums ;)

     

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    • Luck has nothing to do with it

    October 10th, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Melanie and Neil were married on 07/07/07, possibly one of the luckiest days in a hundred years, so Melissa Worthington couldn’t help but laugh when she saw a lucky penny laid out for the sole of Melanie’s shoe – a Southern tradition.

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    The couple married in the quaint town of Onancock, where Melanie grew up, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Melanie’s history runs deep within the town, and they chose to celebrate family history and small town tradition to make the day unique: the reception was held in a mansion once owned by the doctor who delivered Melanie’s grandmother.

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    Melissa and Sam were there to capture every moment.

    The album is a 12×12 Black Leather Duo with black pages and matching mats. A combination of Wing and Flip pages throughout the album brings out the personality of both the couple and the day.

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    The opening sequence shows the dramatic possibilities of Wing pages: We see the couple in front of the church doors, which open and invite the viewer in.

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    We suspect luck had nothing to do with this couple’s special day, or the album that reflects their love and happiness. Mel says, “We’re not trying to document what a wedding looks like so much as what it feels like.” We like that.    

    Click here to view a slide show of the album.

     

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    • A bright future

    September 22nd, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    We love it when our clients win awards for their work, especially when our albums are involved.

    Laura and Marilyn of Natural Expressions recently won the New Hampshire PPA 2008 FujiFilm Masterpiece Award for Photographic Excellence with this beautiful album, which they called “a bright future”.

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    Winnie and Sean’s wedding, held at a beautiful country club in Massachusetts, was all about a colourful palette, so a colourful album was only appropriate.

    Laura and Marilyn design a 10×7 Pagemount feature album with a Teal Leather Photo Front cover – Teal Leather chosen to complement one of the couple’s favourite portraits.

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    Inside, Ivory mats and a unique combination of coloured pages brought the album to life. Pink pages were used to frame colour images, while more subtle Ivory pages complemented the black and white images.

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    Laura and Marilyn said, “We wanted to stick with a traditional matted album but take a modern approach to the design. This album is a great example of the flexibility that Queensberry offers photographers.”

    Congratulations Laura and Marilyn on your outstanding award win. We’re sure a bright future awaits.

    Click here to see a slide show of the album.

     

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    • Do it yourself

    September 5th, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Most of the albums we make are now printed and bound by us, but the guys from Front Room have chosen a road less traveled – Self-Mount Digital albums. There are pluses and minuses to DIY but (strictly from our own point of view) it sometimes feels… a little distant. We never get to see what goes into those books!

    But Front Room buy a lot of albums, so we thought we’d ask them to share.

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    Recently they ordered a two volume 15×12 Rose Buckram set. Which is great for everyone: the clients obviously loved the images, and the studio’s made a nice sale (and had 40% discount on the second cover). We asked Front Room if they’d send us a slide show of the albums and some words to accompany it. Here’s what they sent us – and they were positively lyrical!

    “This was an overcast day in downtown Chicago. The bride and groom took a long road to get there and were grounded beyond their years. Their love was borne of a need fulfilled, a hollow space filled within each of them.

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    “They came together that day, with brilliant relatives and adoring friends that melded into a varied and supporting cast of characters: this bride and groom will be well looked after.

    “They toasted and danced and mingled and ate like royalty in a room ripe with the moment.

    “They stole away outside into the night, to sneak some moments in the scaffolding light.

    “When no one was looking, or if they were they didn’t care, they came together again for the kiss they’d always share.”

    There, they’re romantics, just like us.

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    To view the slide show for Album 1 click here.

    To view the slide show for Album 2 click here.

     

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    • Case in point

    August 28th, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Steve Sharp sent us this exceptional album to complete our series of posts with him. Steve shot Ben and Lauren’s wedding in Taupo, New Zealand, a few weeks ago and designed them a 14×10 Queensberry Digital Album. 

    The couple initially committed to a 12-page album package, but Steve presented them with a 24-page album, pre-designed in Photojunction.

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    Steve finds that most of his clients, when presented with a larger range of page designs and images, decide to include more pages in their album than they have initially pre-committed to. 

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    Ben and Lauren have not yet finalised their album, but any extra pages they include, over and above the original twelve, will represent an increased return for Steve. He says the album is where the profit is. “Why wouldn’t you do your best to make the best album you can for your clients?”

     

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    • Red and white all over

    June 30th, 2008 in Uncategorised by


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    Time and time again we see albums pass through our Bindery in which the photographer has reflected the stylistic theme of the wedding in the book itself. Last week we featured an album with an autumnal harvest theme. This album uses our Pagemount page system to very different effect.

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    What caught our eye in Scott and Priscilla’s case was the stylish simplicity of their red and white theme, and how well Matt and Enna of Grazier Photography had captured and reflected the details in a stunning album.

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    The red highlights around the prints are created by trimming them to reveal the red page behind the ivory mat. Because the pages were supplied without edging and corners, the same red highlight is carried through to the edge of the pages.

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    Scott and Priscilla’s red theme appears throughout the album but it’s possible to add a non-standard feature colour on selected pages only.

    The 12×12 Photofront album was printed and assembled by Queensberry.

    Click here for a slideshow of the album.

     

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