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p.1 #1 · J+A: Wedding Album

I would like to share my latest wedding album. Enjoy the music.

Let me know what do you think. Thank you for looking.

Edited on May 11, 2008 at 11:48 PM

May 11, 2008 at 11:46 PM

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p.1 #2 · J+A: Wedding Album

Wow, this stuff is good! I want to be like you when I grow up. Do you mind sharing your lighting techniques? What kind of flash? Any diffusers? etc, etc, etc. Thanks for posting.

May 12, 2008 at 01:46 AM

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p.1 #3 · J+A: Wedding Album

Thank you. Natural light, bounced flash indoors, Canon 580 EX II.

May 12, 2008 at 02:06 AM

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p.1 #4 · J+A: Wedding Album

Great stuff, some of the best I have seen on this site.
Would you share some info about the lenses that you used?

Edited on May 12, 2008 at 02:15 AM

May 12, 2008 at 02:14 AM

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p.1 #5 · J+A: Wedding Album

Three words: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

May 12, 2008 at 02:28 AM

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p.1 #6 · J+A: Wedding Album

Sweetness all the way around. Nice couple. GREAT photos! Wonderful layout design.

And, I also liked the music and presentation. Top notch.

May 12, 2008 at 02:50 AM

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p.1 #7 · J+A: Wedding Album

Awesome work!!!

May 12, 2008 at 02:59 AM

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p.1 #8 · J+A: Wedding Album

I so enjoyed looking at this album. Exceptional work. Thanks for sharing.

May 12, 2008 at 03:51 AM

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p.1 #9 · J+A: Wedding Album

Your work is exceptional, very clean, sharp, well done!

May 12, 2008 at 05:46 AM

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p.1 #10 · J+A: Wedding Album

Pure awesome!! You have to let us know what slide program you're using.

~Sam

May 12, 2008 at 06:43 AM

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p.1 #11 · J+A: Wedding Album

Probably one of the best I've seen - Exceptional

May 12, 2008 at 08:04 AM

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p.1 #12 · J+A: Wedding Album

i really enjoy both the style of your photography and the album presentation.

i'm excited to browse your website and follow your work!
kate

May 12, 2008 at 09:15 AM

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p.1 #13 · J+A: Wedding Album

Super fabulous work. I love the 2 pages with portraits of everybody in the wedding party. I haven't seen one like that before, it looks great.

May 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM

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p.1 #14 · J+A: Wedding Album

Incedible work and the layout. Everything flowed so smoothly thoughout the album. I also like the portraits of everyone in the wedding party. Yvette

May 12, 2008 at 01:17 PM

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p.1 #15 · J+A: Wedding Album

Beautiful, truly beautiful, the music was gorgeous too - what is it?

May 12, 2008 at 01:41 PM

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p.1 #16 · J+A: Wedding Album

Very nice works, beautiful images and layouts. One thing that nagging me after looking at the first few images is that the images seem to be a bit over sharpening. Other than that everything seems to be top rated.

Thi

May 12, 2008 at 02:39 PM

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p.1 #17 · J+A: Wedding Album

Overall, this is a excellent album--a fine art piece.

Helpful suggestions:

1) some of your compositions border on the "too busy" or "cluttered"; sometimes the problem is that the brides pressure us into fitting tons of images into the album; some of your borderline cluttered pages have images that are repetitious and could have been left out; consider simplifying your designs even further; convince your brides not to put in too many repetitious images

Australian wedding photographer Jerry Ghionis is one of the best I have ever met and seen at doing album design

2) your subjects seem a bit bored in some of your posed shots; you can see it in their eyes; it is important to make sure that these images preserve the magic of the moment in their expressions; this is also an art.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful artistic wedding album! Very inspiring!

May 12, 2008 at 03:39 PM

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p.1 #18 · J+A: Wedding Album

Thank you all for your comments very much appreciated.

The slideshow program I use is Slideshow Pro for Lightroom. (http://www.slideshowpro.net).

The music is Ukrainian.

The lenses are: Canon 24-70 2.8, 70-200 2.8 IS, 85 1.4, 100 2.8 macro.

Vance, you are right about too many images on some pages. My version of the album was 60 pages. They had only 40 pages prepaid. They couldn't buy extra 20 pages and dropped a lot of good ones. I had to put images on the other pages and sometimes they don't work together very well. The reception pages are very busy and they kind of represent that part of the day - very busy time.
The repetitions... I call them sequences... I find them a lot in Jerry's albums and others...

I know Jerry's work very well. I met him and talked at WPPI this year. You have to realize that the albums they show to brides and submit to competitions could be totally different things. If I would redesign it put as many pages as I need to cover what I want, but brides can afford only so much.

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May 12, 2008 at 04:16 PM

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p.1 #19 · J+A: Wedding Album

Great photography, good exposures. I especially like the work on the formals and the headshots of the bridal party- I'll remember that for my next wedding.

I find the album layout design itself to be a little static / repitious / straightforward / standard, but the ordering and selection of images works pretty well.

Edited on May 12, 2008 at 05:56 PM

May 12, 2008 at 05:55 PM

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p.1 #20 · J+A: Wedding Album

I like simple and clean design (standard, straightforward), no foo-foo. It seems to be a key for your album to be timeless. Big guys do that too.

May 12, 2008 at 06:03 PM

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p.1 #21 · J+A: Wedding Album

Great work Sasha! I love elegance, simplicity, amazing, one of the best!

May 12, 2008 at 07:30 PM

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p.1 #22 · J+A: Wedding Album

Can I ask what you use for album layout. I like very much the clean look and very much enjoyed the web presentation.

May 12, 2008 at 10:50 PM

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p.1 #23 · J+A: Wedding Album

Paul Prior wrote:
Can I ask what you use for album layout. I like very much the clean look and very much enjoyed the web presentation.

FotoFusion.

May 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM

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p.1 #24 · J+A: Wedding Album

Besides a STUNNING album, the music is entrancing..

seriously. i love it.. wowwww

where can we get it?

May 13, 2008 at 06:25 AM

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p.1 #25 · J+A: Wedding Album

markye wrote:
Besides a STUNNING album, the music is entrancing..

seriously. i love it.. wowwww

where can we get it?

No problem:
The song is called 'Only Rain'. You can get from official web site of the band NeDilya:
http://www.nedilya.com/data/music/05%20-%20Tilbki_Dosh.mp3

If you can read Ukrainian, here is official web site of the band:

http://www.nedilya.com/

Here is the video from you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFBCp7rOvo

Here is the page with their album from e-store in Kiev where I buy Ukrainian music:
http://www.umka.com.ua/eng/catalogue/lyric/trohy-teplyh-sliv-some-warm-words.html

The album Some Warm Words doesn't have that song. The album which has 'Only Rain' song was their first album from 2005. They don't have that album in stock.

May 13, 2008 at 07:03 AM


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