Your Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wedding - Feb/Mar 2019 (Issue 75)

PHOTOGRAPHY 77 DAVID BOSTOCK ON... WEDDING ALBUMS. Giving your other half a beautiful surprise album is a fantastic idea. The motivation to do something with the images is always high to begin with, but life gets busier and, all too often, apart from the lone frame on the mantelpiece, the rest of the images get forgotten at the bottom of a drawer. Having high-resolution files on a USB stick or disc as a form of backup is a great idea, but it should never be the final product. Far too often, digital files get forgotten or misplaced or laptops and hard drives fail. The long-term compatibility of the files or the disc is not guaranteed, either. On the other hand, I am still captivated by my parents’ 1948 wedding album, with real photos stuck into a pretty simple album. Some clients who have purchased high-resolution discs go on to get some flat-looking prints . Some design their own wedding photo books over the web, but when the image files do not perfectly match the calibration of the lab’s colour profiles, clients can end up disappointed. Often, these modern photo books are not designed to last a lifetime, unlike a properly bound, professionally designed wedding album. Broadly, modern wedding albums fall into two main categories. They are either albums wherein the images are printed directly on to the page itself – often known as coffee table books or flush-mount albums – or the type where photographic prints are set into apertures with bevel-cut mounts on the page. These are known as matted albums. The simpler and less flashy the design, the less your album will date. For me, a well-designed, matted classic wedding album is something that stands the test of time. And one of the advantages of getting your photographer to design your wedding album is the access to album companies that deal exclusively with professional photographers and a high-quality range of products not available to the consumer. David Bostock, davidbostockphotography.co.uk