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For my senior portrait sessions, my biggest seller is the album. Just thought I'd share an album design, which gives more of a complete look at one of my senior portrait sessions. I do my designing with Fundy Album Builder. My senior albums are 12x12 inches, the lay-flat Photobook by BRI.

Comments welcome.

1. Front cover on right, back cover on left.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/381/19780383891_dc7bda07ba_b.jpg

2. I always start with a single page on the right.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3759/19152402324_c795145513_b.jpg

3.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/467/19154098793_cc9e05a526_b.jpg

4.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/560/19154096973_8f63cfc44a_b.jpg

5. I had another shot that reduced the green on the right pic so the green matched the green on the left pic, which helped Claire pop out more, but Claire really liked the color in this shot as is.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/337/19588395429_bd333b9cc7_b.jpg

6.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/276/19586985728_b3ec5b3a6d_b.jpg

7.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/513/19586965680_b79c57cf82_b.jpg

8.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/423/19779730191_23ac7dc02f_b.jpg

9. Last shot of the session on right. Might be my favorite.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/362/19748819546_c2070a5607_b.jpg

10.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/480/19154087603_e9bb51be90_b.jpg

11. Backlit by sunset, front lit by a pair of Yongnuos.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3682/19152388874_6f048d444d_b.jpg

12. There was literally just a sliver of fading sunlight here, so I used it to light her up against the background.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3782/19779724181_0a86394ff9_b.jpg

13. The Mom's favorite picture.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/295/19586975388_d7d81e0c1b_b.jpg

Edited on Jul 17, 2015 at 05:54 PM · View previous versions



Jul 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Senior Portrait Album Design


Great session and a beautiful album, Ron. I'm with mom on #13.


Jul 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Senior Portrait Album Design


Great shots all around Ron! My favorite is #5, very natural looking.

I'm not sure how I feel about the left over space in 10. I think it would look great if it covered the whole spread, but that's just me



Jul 17, 2015 at 01:13 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Senior Portrait Album Design


GoodEgg wrote:
Great session and a beautiful album, Ron. I'm with mom on #13.


+1




Jul 17, 2015 at 03:00 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Senior Portrait Album Design


Beautiful! I agree with mom, it's a wonderful shot there.


Jul 18, 2015 at 12:04 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Senior Portrait Album Design


Very nice - I am sure that this will make all clients happy -
Enjoy -
Paul



Jul 18, 2015 at 08:33 AM
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Thanks, everyone!



Jul 18, 2015 at 01:00 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Senior Portrait Album Design


High quality, just what I expect when I see your work!


Jul 18, 2015 at 09:16 PM
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Ron, obviously take this with a grain of salt as I am no pro, but there is a lot of sameness for me. It think it might be a stronger collection if it were broken up with some detail shots, some outtakes from the sessions or maybe some landscape types shots were she is not engaging with the camera. However, you know your clients and the work is excellent so my view likely makes no practical difference in any event.


Jul 19, 2015 at 08:30 PM
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I'm with you & mom on 9-right and 13, and I add #10/back cover as my favorite. She's well lit and the brightness of the sun pulls my eye away, then pushes it right back because it is too bright and uninteresting. So in many ways, my eye spends more time on #10.

I like the album design and in my non-pro opinion would have been inclined to put a couple of the more 'fun' shots as more prominent features, like maybe the jumping shot in #7.



Jul 19, 2015 at 09:35 PM
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Thanks, guys, really appreciate it!



Jul 20, 2015 at 09:29 AM
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sidefunk wrote:
Ron, obviously take this with a grain of salt as I am no pro, but there is a lot of sameness for me. It think it might be a stronger collection if it were broken up with some detail shots, some outtakes from the sessions or maybe some landscape types shots were she is not engaging with the camera. However, you know your clients and the work is excellent so my view likely makes no practical difference in any event.


Appreciate your feedback. I allow my clients, both wedding and senior portraits, to change my original design in any way they'd like. Bottom line, this is their album. I agree that way too many of the shots, especially those featured in this album, had Claire camera-aware. It's something I've always struggled with, but actually did a fairly good job in this session of getting shots of her not camera-aware, often looking at and laughing with her mom. But many of those didn't make the cut, and those that did were made into smaller pics. I was also surprised that she didn't choose any of my b&w conversions.

Also appreciate your suggestion to add outtakes and detail shots. Getting detail shots is not something I normally do with my senior portraits unless they have something specific with them. But it's a great idea and I need to start getting more of them. Thanks again!



Jul 20, 2015 at 09:34 AM
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Very insightful.

As hard as wedding albums seem to be for younger couples to appreciate, I would never have thought that Gen. Tech would be up for an album from a senior portrait. Or was Mom more enthused about the album than Claire?



Jul 20, 2015 at 06:00 PM
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Looks good, Ron. I keep saying I'm going to start trying to sell albums with my senior session but I keep not getting around to making my samples. I need to get on the ball. I plan on getting some samples of the Finao Playbooks.

brad



Jul 20, 2015 at 11:19 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Senior Portrait Album Design


+1 with moms choice.

The only thing I don't like are the way you kept white boarder on top and bottom of the left image in number 4. Many ofnthe other pages only used vertical white separators. I would have altered to male crop or resolution work.



Jul 20, 2015 at 11:49 PM
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Nikon_14 wrote:
Very insightful.

As hard as wedding albums seem to be for younger couples to appreciate, I would never have thought that Gen. Tech would be up for an album from a senior portrait. Or was Mom more enthused about the album than Claire?


Sometimes, there is a discussion about who gets to keep the album but it's pretty much always the mom. We also offer Sticky Albums for their smart phones so everyone definitely gets something.



Jul 21, 2015 at 06:55 AM
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gschlact wrote:
+1 with moms choice.

The only thing I don't like are the way you kept white boarder on top and bottom of the left image in number 4. Many ofnthe other pages only used vertical white separators. I would have altered to male crop or resolution work.


The border on 4 was actually a mistake that went to print. I didn't even see it until I posted it here. Fortunately, lots of bleeding space so not an issue.



Jul 21, 2015 at 06:57 AM
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DigMeTX wrote:
Looks good, Ron. I keep saying I'm going to start trying to sell albums with my senior session but I keep not getting around to making my samples. I need to get on the ball. I plan on getting some samples of the Finao Playbooks.

brad


Brad,

It's absolutely a game-winner. It's my biggest seller. Once I pull out my samples, they have to have one as long as they have the means. I have had a few people who got bug-eyes when I said it costs $600 for 20 pages (10 spreads).



Jul 21, 2015 at 07:00 AM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Senior Portrait Album Design


Do you offer more than one size? Also, tell me more about the sticky albums. Does that come with an album purchase or do you sell it separately? Is it easy to make?

brad



Jul 21, 2015 at 02:14 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Senior Portrait Album Design


She should be very happy with this, again, adding this to my next Nina photoshoot as "possibles"

I'm with the Mom on #13
Nice work
Bob



Jul 22, 2015 at 01:07 PM
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