albums
David Dadekian is pleased to offer Zookbinders' Zook Book as his primary album of choice. These are leather bound, seamless, flush albums and David custom creates every album from scratch, designing around your day's photographs--no cookie-cutter templates. As an added convenience, for those of you from outside the area or if you just don't have the time to work on your album as life gets busy after marriage, as part of your password protected online photo gallery, David will place all your album pages online for you to preview from the comfort of your own computer.
Every photo David takes can be printed in color, black+white, sepia or other art toning and can be cropped, all at no additional cost. Photographic prints are printed on Kodak Professional Photographic Paper (fine art options are below). David personally edits every proof image before making final prints, creating a higher quality print from his raw image, and he can e-mail you a preview of any toning or cropping edits before making your print. Below are some examples of the differences between unedited proofs and final prints.
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fine art prints
Dadekian Photo offers the options of having your final photographs printed on fine art mediums such as velvet paper and canvas. The velvet paper is 100% cotton, acid-free paper. It's a thick, heavy stock that is similar in appearance and feel to watercolor paper. David's canvas prints are not made via the canvas bond process. Prints are made directly onto the canvas and include an invisible ultraviolet spray coating for protection and increased longevity. Canvas prints are wrapped around a 1.5" thick stretcher frame, ready for hanging or framing. Fine art prints are less resistant to scratching and damage than traditional photographic prints and should be handled and displayed with care.
If you're looking for an alternative to the leather-bound, wedding album, these are custom-designed coffee table quality art books. Press-printed books have the style and feel of a fine art book from the bookstore. There are a variety of sizes and styles, from mini-books that can be carried in a purse, up to full-size albums. Books are available with custom photo dust jackets and all the books have gloss covers and either black, red or frosted plastic slipcases. Great for parent albums or second albums that you can carry everywhere.
thank you/greeting cards
Dadekian Photography offers folded press-printed thank you/greeting cards in 4"x5.5" and 5"x7" sizes after folding (actual card size is 8"x5.5" and 10"x7"). All four sides of the cards are fully customizable and full color. David also offers 4" x 8" flat cards with a printed design (holiday, graduation, birth announcement, etc.). All cards come with envelopes.
alternative photo book
In addition to the Zookbinders' albums, Dadekian Photography can produce a coffee-table style book through Italy's Graphistudio. The Wedding Book is a unique variation on an album with translucent plastic covers, metallic pages and other variations. Please ask David to see a sample to find if it's the cutting edge alternative for you. Prices vary from standard album pricing.