I've researched it over the years and for me it's more a matter of what my client says she'd like me to put in the book for her mother-in-law, but I was thinking a standard formula to get started would be to design the pages a little more old-fashioned. She gets to choose one photo per page for each album she's having me create, and just emailed me the first list of photos. A lot of my clients have stated that they would personally like a more jazzy, modern, "chic" style which meant more eccentric photoshopping, but I don't think that's what her mother-in-law would like.

For those who have purchased parent albums from their photographer, what design preferences did you have when you sat down and reviewed the page proofs? What did you notice that your parents preferred?

I'm remembering an older wedding album I studied that was created in the 70's, which had some basic four-to-a-page layouts, some pages were a full-sized spread, others had one 6x9 and several 3x5s along side it. I might want to shy away from overlapping as I often do with one general black and white and "chain" images vertically lining one side of the page.

8/14/2008 5:29:12 AM