Art Z Angel Ink (About_Us) Photography and Videography.

Albums

Albums are one of our specialties! This why many of our packages includes some sort of custom designed album. Typically, our designers will begin album design as soon as possible after your wedding day. Of course any requests for images or suggestions are always welcome. Once we have an initial design, this is posted to the web for your review. From there, you can request any changes you might like to see- from swapping out images to adding more pages, modifying a spread and so on. The important aspect is that nothing is sent to be printed and bound until you approve the design. The albums in any package may be upgraded to another album for the full price of the album. As example, The Studio Pro includes our Standard Flush Mount Album, a value of $1074. This $1074 can be applied to any album you might like.

Art Z Angel is also more than happy to design your album even if you didn't use our services for photography. Keep in mind of course that we must have permission to use the images and we are limited by the quality and size of images provided. And these don't need to be just wedding albums! They can be albums of children growing, special family vacations, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvah's and more. The one thing I have found through the years is that nothing makes a better gift than an album!

Art Z Angel works with several different album vendors in order to deliver the album you desire. And we have a complete array of sample albums. However, it is impossible for us to carry a sample of every album we offer. If there is something you would like to have, just let us know. I am sure one of our album vendors has your dream album!

We invite you to make an appointment to come see all the albums we have to offer so that we can find what you would like to have.

We offer:

Custom designed flush mount albums in a variety of different covers and bindings. Including, etched brush aluminum, acrylic, rare leathers, silk and more!

Standard Flush Mount Albums, with design, begin @ $999 for a 10x10, 10-page (20-side) album. Additional pages (two sides = one page) are $75.

Matted Albums, with design, begin @ $1499, 10-pages. Additional pages $125.

Parent Albums (copies) begin @ $249 for a 6x6.

Coffee Table and/or Photobooks begin @ $799 for a 10x10, 10-page design.

Proof Books!

Sometimes it can be quite a challenge to review hundreds of images at your computer! Now you can review them via our proof books, making it much simpler! Proof books are spiral bound book containing multiple images/pages. And each image has the corresponding file name making that favorite image easier to track down!

8x5x11, 9-images/page. $2.70/page + $15 binding.
Example 99-images = $44.70 (99/9=11; 11x2.7=29.7 + 15 = 44.70)

11x14, 12-images/page. $5.70/page + $20 binding.
Example 96-images = $57.60 (96/12 = 8 * 5.7 + 20 = 57.6)

Sample Album, from a Studio Pro Wedding shot by Mike & Laura

Sample Album (Flash required) Studio Pro shot by Rachel & Mike

Our Digital Darkroom

Many photographers simply have a computer at home and that qualifies as their Digital Darkroom. It is common practice for many photographers to send their files to different online services to design albums. Often times, there is a charge to change album designs since this requires the page to be uploaded to the designer, the designer to modify the page, and then sent back to the photographer.

Not Art Z Angel. All of our designs are in house. Our designs are custom. And we can modify them ourselves, for which there is no charge. Our design proofs are posted online for you to view. And we can set up time to review the design together as well. And remember, we don’t have the album printed & bound (which of course we do send out to have done!), until you approve the design!

Art Z Angel maintains a stringent workflow. For starters, we require our photographers to shoot in both the RAW & JPEG mode (provided the camera allows this, otherwise we require the RAW file). The RAW file simply gives us the greatest post-processing flexibility. The RAW + JPEG is an added layer of security when shooting a wedding: every image is recorded twice thereby reducing the risk of losing an image. Once I have the flash cards from a wedding the images are loaded onto the computer, then back up DVDs are made of the original images. Once these DVD back ups are made, another back up is made of the images on a separate hard drive. Only then do we delete the images from the memory cards! Sure, that is a lot of work- but talk to someone who has had their computer hard drive fail on them and you will know why we do it!

After that the fun begins. Our Digital Darkroom consists of more than just a computer. We have several actually. Our two main workstations each use two monitors with one monitor dedicated to just seeing your image. This allows us to see more detail as our image isn't crowded with several pallets and other information. And this second monitor is color calibrated so that we know we are seeing what a print will look like. And trust me, there can be a big difference! And then we have loads of software to bring out the best in every image. Of course we use Photoshop for image manipulation but we also have several Photoshop plug-ins: Nik filters, Photographic Edges, Noise Ninja and more. On top of that, we have several customizable actions as well! This all amounts to several thousands of dollars of software at our disposal to allow us to create true works of art for you! Again, something a bit more than a camera and computer.

For the very technically oriented our Digital Darkroom:

Station 1

Hardware

MacPro with 16GB of RAM. Yes, 16GB of RAM. It’s not a misprint.

Boot drive is a pair of Raptor hard drive.

1GB graphics card.

Dual Display System: one "standard" monitor; one image (color calibrated) monitor

Mac Gurus Burly Bays: Three 5-bay SATA II towers. Connected via a Sonnet Tempo SATA card.

Gigabit home network system.

Photo Software:

Apple’s Aperture (I LOVE this program)

Photoshop CS5 Master Suite