love love LOVE my new sample coffee table book! coffee table books are a bit different from albums. the main difference being in the page thickness (more magazine-like for coffee table books, more cardboard-thickness for albums) and the cover (thin silk-cover for coffee table books, thick leather or vegan alternative for albums). of course, coffee table books also have the photographs printed onto the page itself, where an album is actually a large photograph adhered to the cardboard-like pages so the print quality is noticeably different as well.

i offer them both to give a variety of choice and price range to my clients. recently i changed my format a little bit. i used to use backgrounds in my books, but i found that white pages suit me a little better. white doesn’t distract or take anything away from the photographs and it’s much more timeless (not to mention easier to design). so i redesigned a sample set to take to consults. the coffee table book got here yesterday and i love it! the silk is awesome…changing colors slightly depending on the light. can’t wait for the album to get here!

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yay! what do you think? :)

why 365?

day 45/365

white cherry tree

just looking at these makes me want to sneeze. what’s so funny is that everything in raleigh in the spring is an electric color. we were driving down the highway today and the leaves are electric green and there are these little electric purple little trees everywhere. everything looks incredibly photoshopped. it’s awesome. i have a wedding at duke gardens this upcoming weekend which should turn out some beautiful spring foliage shots!

why 365?

we’re almost there!

well, still several months away, but.

only a few major events left in the planning of our wedding at artspace later this year. went there today to scope out the amount of people we can actually sit in gallery 2 and how many tables, etc. will spill out into the gallery hall. found an awesome little window to hide the cake behind. still waiting to find out who the featured artist of the gallery will be during our wedding. they’re always super awesome though, so we’re not worried in the least. excited!

next step: shoes!

artspace raleigh nc

*taken with my droid. :) not bad! taken inspiration from “the best camera is the one that’s always with you.”

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