Neil February 5th, 2008

Here is a view of Britta’s Chautauqua institute wedding album from June:

Read more to see the whole design in a flash player and a few of my comments on the stronger page designs.

Here is the whole album in a flash player, if you cannot see this player - please download an install the latest flash.

Here’s a lighthearted page at side 9 and 10 that shows how we can use creative cropping and image placement of seemingly unrelated images to create a bright color palette and telling design. The bottom left image is quite filled with detail if you can’t quite read it all notice it larger here:

Sometimes people equate taking pictures of ‘things’ as details pictures, saying “I love the details” well, we shoot images with detail in the texture, and storytelling in the composition so that they can fit back into the layout and add story to the finished product. There you can see the tourism magazine from the bedstand noting the location, a bridal accecory from Haute Bride, Britta’s mamosa and her lively pink moto rAzr.

Next we see a designed series of image showing Britta and Cameron’s first meeting just before their ceremony.  You can see me playing with scale to show time from left to right.

And finally a subtle touch at that first meeting is a gentle picture representing the ceremony about to happen.

Here on the left we have a large bisected square representing in smaller squares all the flurry of activity just before the ceremony. The page is culminated by Britta’s father giving her a kiss on the cheek while giving her away.

Well I guess I’m noticing the details again, here I have 4 shots representing the event design and coloring of the reception in the historical Victorian Athenaeum hotel which has been serving guests since 1881. If you’ll notice my emphasis on the vertical design and incorporate it within the images and merge it within the design using a chair back as a photo design element to complement the album design.

Here we see another inventive combination of photo design merged with the book design.

Over these six pages I developed a storyline from the evening portraits, guest waving goodbye to Cameron and Britta, Cameron carrying Britta over the threshold of their honeymoon suite and a few tender moments on the bed to finish the wedding story all the way to the end of the night in the album design. I love building a relationship strong enough to allow me to portray my clients with such honesty and tenderness.