Two words about Somerset Photo Albums

Looking on the web I have seen a quite interesting photo album solution.

Somerset ( http://www.somersetalbums.com/) appears to be the web shop of Dameron Color Labs (www.dameron-color-labs.com), a firm placed in Springfield (Missouri?) specialized in photography professional producs. The firm has about 40 years of experience in this field and this should always be, in my opinion, a good start to evaluate a product. Then you could consider that the solution they propose is flexible because they give to you, on the web, the possibility to load pictures and create a digital album to be full displayed on you PC using the login they give to you in order to access the software. Afterwards if you want, you can buy the real album.

The flexibility here is also on the possibility to make photo by yourself (if you are a couple) or to buy shots by a professional photographer: you can load pictures you prefere to compose the album. If you are a photographer you could buy one for your couples and resell it.

I have read quite good opinions about flush mount album Somerset on the Internet, you can see some here . Album covers look fine, John Givens and Devon Knadle - two members of the Photo.net portal - think they should be affiliated or related to Tuscany albums (http://www.tuscanyalbums.com/) because products are similar.

What I can tell you, from my side, is that sample digital albums there are fine, look here for instance, and I suggest at least to register to create you digital album. You will make a decision later !

By the way I don't know if Tuscany is an italian mark of photo albums, but I don't know it.

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If you know more about Somerset, please post a comment!

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You can visit the Bandinelli's photo albums collection at: www.bandinelli.it - milano@bandinelli.it

Alessandro Gatto's photo albums in Aicurzio (Milan)

Today I went also to visit Alessandro Gatto, a wedding professional photographer in Aicurzio, in the surrounding of Monza GP circuit. He shows me his own photo albums, made by a friend firm. He has a catalouge of Mario Acerboni, one of G. Bandinelli (a new one, even if he already knew the firm), I also have seen there something about Erreeffe, a firm from Brescia, but he shows me a very special kind of photo albums: have you haver seen something made in sheep leather? I think it was this:

http://www.atanor.net/scmPecora.htm .
He sometimes uses these kind of photo albums for his customers because, he said, they are smooth and soft and they have a good finishing. Also for interioriors special indian papers are used here.

Gatto is not a customer of mine, but he gives me a sharp impression because he is focalized on wedding, he has a studio in this little village, not a big shop, and I think he could be taken as reference for new couples in the northern east of Milan. If you want to marry there you should contact him to see how he works and to take some ideas.

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Oggi ho visitato anche Alessandro Gatto, un fotografo specialista in matrimoni di Aicurzio, dalle parti di Monza. Mi ha fatto vedere gli album fotografici che usa, fatti da un'azienda amica. Ha un catalogo di Acerboni, uno di Bandinelli (uno nuovo, sebbene già conoscesse l'azienda), ho visto anche qualcosa di Erreeffe, un'azienda di Brescia, mi ha però fatto vedere una tipologia molto particolare di album fotografici: avete mai visto qualcosa fatto in pelle di pecora? Penso fosse questo:

http://www.atanor.net/scmPecora.htm .

A volte usa questo tipo di albums per i suoi clienti perché, dice, sono lisci e morbidi oltre che ben finiti. Anche gli interni sono fatti di carte indiane molto particolari. Gatto non è un mio cliente, però mi ha fatto un'ottima impressione perché è focalizzato nei matrimoni, ha uno studio in questo piccolo paese, non un grande negozio, e penso possa essere preso a riferimento per le nuove coppie della zona nord-est di Milano. Se vi sposerete in questa zona dovreste contattarlo per vedere come lavora e farvi un'idea vostra.

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Gatto's website: http://www.gattofotografo.it/

You can visit Bandinelli's photo album collection at: www.bandinelli.it

An italian eye to the USA photo albums market

To be sincere today I am really tired, but I want the same to start to talk about and interesting argument. In the next day we will talk about differences between italian and USA photo albums. To start this talk I promised to begin from the site of Jeff Schaefer, a wedding photographer that I don't know and I will probably never meet - so this is not pubblicity. I guess him into Google as I told you yesterday.

In his own interesting site I just had a look to FAQ and to the suggested album page: See the albums page.

He declares to use essentially two kind of album:

1) Willowbook Sequoia flush mount albums :

http://www.willowbook.com/sequoia.htm

2) Flora brand matted albums:

http://www.tap-usa.com/Brands/Professional/Flora/

Let's have a look there before, we continue the talk tomorrow...

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You can visit Bandinelli's photo album collection at: www.bandinelli.it