Fine Art Wedding Album by Irwin, PA Photographer

I read a quote recently that said something along the lines of:
This generation will be the most photographed, but with the least photographs.

As a photographer, that statement really stuck with me. And I’ve thought about it a lot. It was one of those thoughts I’ve mulled over while vacuuming, cooking, and taking a shower (you know, those mindless tasks that we do that allow our brains to wander).

This is the day & age of digital. Think about it: everything is very quickly moving into the “digital” lane. We are more often than not consuming digital music (Spotify, anyone?) and we are being encouraged to purchase our movies digitally (Hollywood is rewarding those who buy digital movies with early releases & extra features). Our computers are no longer sold with CD drives & the ports on laptops and tablets are slowly disappearing.

I love technology and I truly don’t mind the digital age. I’m not sure if I would be a photographer if we were still in the film era.
However, with everything moving to be more and more digital – the necessity of printing our photographs has slowly been easing up as well. After all, we take too many pictures to print them all, right? I mean, I remember having a little film camera – those 24 exposures were precious! I’d never just snap away like I do today with my cell phone!

But let’s put the personal photos we take on our phones in a separate category. What about the professional photos we have taken? That we pay to have taken? Do they exist somewhere outside of your hard drive?

I love digital photos. I’m obsessed with them, really.
Which is why I include digital photos with all of my wedding packages. I believe that my clients can handle printing their own wedding photos to display in their homes & give as gifts (I actually just wrote a post about what to do with your wedding photos after the wedding). We’ve all grown up in this up-and-coming digital age & ordering things online (ie: getting photos printed thru an online lab) is second-nature to just about all of us.

However, there is one physical product that I do offer my KAP Couples – and that’s wedding albums. My albums are unlike anything you can have made as a consumer. Sure, you can have books made of your images, but nothing at the professional quality level that I can offer as a professional wedding photographer. My albums are leather, their pages are thick, and the binding lays flat so that photos can go right across the middle of the page. I love my wedding albums & I’m always so excited when a couple adds on an album!

I always encourage my KAP Couples that if they know right off the bat that they want a wedding album, to add one on to the wedding package they create. Things come up after the wedding: the honeymoon, new bills, and we all know that even the best intentions can get lost in the shuffle.
However! I always have your wedding files! So, even if 2 years pass, I can still create a stunning family heirloom for you!

And that’s kind of what happened with Chris & Erica! They had a wedding album coming their way as part of their photography package, but life got the best of them & we’re coming up on their 2 year wedding anniversary! Having a new baby kind of lit the fire under all of us to get this book completed though & I’m obsessed with how it turned out!

This is a massive album – it’s a 12×12 25-spread (50-page) book!! Almost the biggest book you can buy! And we packed it out telling the story of their beautiful Day One.

If you’d like to see my full blog post of Chris & Erica’s wedding day highlights, hop on over to that post, here!

If I’ve photographed your wedding and you have had every intention of ordering a wedding album but have just kept putting it off (or forgetting) – why not send me a quick message right now & we’ll get the process started? It’s actually a lot of fun to work through & you can have one of these incredible books as a part of your family history in a matter of weeks!