What To Do With Your Photos After Having Them Taken
Yay! You finally got those portraits you’ve been longing for. Or maybe you just got married and now you have 700+ photos sitting in a gallery or on your computer… But what now?
6 ways to use your photos!
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Prints!
It’s time to get your digital images off of your disc, usb or hard drive and enjoy them! Let them live!
The most obvious of all the ways to use your photos is prints! And for a good reason. There is something magical about holding and touching an image to see and relive special moments in your life.
You can frame them, clip them, put them on the fridge, put them in a box or album, tape them to the wall, the options are endless! Don’t have a lot of wall space for frames? Try creating a gallery wall! Here’s ours in our home. We incorporated our absolute favorite images, on different materials, from our wedding along with a few personal custom art items to really make it feel like ours.
A mix of framed prints, personalized framed art and a large fine art canvas!
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Print Box
Have so many digital images you love, but don’t know what to do with them all? What about a custom print box to store them all in! This way you can swap out your frames or photos on your fridge periodically. You can also simply tape images to your walls! We would recommend using photo safe tape or washi tape to avoid ruining your priceless images.
Another fun option would be to mount your smaller prints (we can help with this) so that you can simply place a baby easel (or two or three!) on a bookshelf and swap those out as you see fit!
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Albums
How many times has Grandma (or insert any relative here) asked you to look through her wedding album or maybe just a keepsake album of you as a kid? There’s nothing quite like reliving your story through a wedding album. Our couples simply love sharing these keepsakes with their kids. You can even get a mini version of your album for a parent or relative!
Bonus, ours albums come with a lifetime warranty! As long as you are smart when taking care of it (they come with a care card!), we’ll fix any issues if you should encounter any. Although, we’ve been offering our couples albums for 10 years and have yet to have someone have an issue. A bride even told us once her daughter got something sticky on her album and it simply wiped away!
Mini Albums
How cute are these guys?? Mini albums are perfect for parents, grandparents, or just an album to take around with you to show off your day!
Guestbook / Session Album
Another amazing way to revisit your photos is to create a guestbook or album from your engagement or portrait session!
Create a Guestbook or Album of your engagement images to relive these special moments!
We turned our engagement images into a guestbook and had all of our guests leave us love notes. Our best friend’s mom who has since passed away, left us a note that is even more special now than ever.
Even more special, when her son recently wed, Mr. Vondy used this quote while marrying them in her memory.
“My very dears,
Love, love, love. That’s all there is.
Love xxx Wannie & Driko”
Hearing her voice during their ceremony made everyone feel like she was there.
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Canvases
Another popular option is canvas! You’ve likely seen these or possibly already have one hanging in your home. We LOVE our canvas company, they are the most amazing quality.
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Framed Prints
You can now order your prints to arrive framed and ready to hang on the wall! How amazing is that? Choose your style, color, print, everything all in your gallery! And don’t forget to send us a photo when it’s on your wall, we LOVE seeing your photos in your home!
Our lab offers matted framed prints for any size!
Easily create a gallery wall of your favorite images. Buy extra prints to swap out as often as you wish!
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Prints on a Unique Material
We’re guessing you’re most likely familiar with all the methods of printing and enjoying your photos we’ve mentioned above, but have you ever thought of printing your photos on Bamboo, Wood or even Metal?! Our lab is now offering some of the finest and most durable options for your prints! They come ready to hang, no frame or additional work (besides hammering a nail) needed!
Mounted Prints:
Standout (black)
Styrene (white - middle)
Matboard - Recommended for larger prints. Fits in frames! When you’re ready to replace your matboard image in a frame, it’s sturdy enough to hang on it’s own!
Wood Prints
Bamboo Prints - sustainable!
Metal Prints
Bamboo Prints - sustainable!
Why Print at a Professional Lab?
We highly recommend printing through your professional photographer! Not only are you supporting a small business (which we cannot tell you how much this means to us), your print products are going to be a much higher quality and last you a lot longer than that cheap lab. Sure, that cheap lab may be a few hundred dollars less (at most), but if you’re only investing in a wedding album once, what’s another few hundred dollars on a wedding album that will last you a lifetime? When that cheap album falls apart, you’ll need to re-invest, so just invest from the beginning and get yourself a timeless keepsake. When ordering your prints, why not order from a professional lab the first time so you won’t have to invest in them again!
If you must print on your own, we recommend avoiding Costco and Walmart for prints as they tend to be extremely low quality and print weird colors, blown out highlights and other unflattering editing due to the lack of calibration from their printer to your computer.
If you’re in need of some professional prints and are not our couple/client yet, feel free to reach out and we will see if we can lend a hand! We’re also happy to schedule you for an updated portrait session! Drop us a line to book yours - hello@thevondys.com.