June, 2018 UPDATE : I no longer photograph weddings. I am no longer able or willing to recommend Canvera’s products or services. Since 2012, when this blog post was published, everything at the brand has deteriorated steadily. I currently order individual prints from ZoomIn. Use promo code NAINA2018 to get Rs. 100 waived off your first order. I haven’t ordered a print book in a while but if I did, I still recommend Blurb. If you’re aware of other suitable options ( quality over price ), please share in the comments or send me an email at [email protected]
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Canvera has done it again. I am floored. I had been saving up to get one of these as a studio sample and am I glad I did. I love everything about it. The finish is great. The red leather cover just give it that passionate, romantic feel and evokes these emotions in me where I want to hug the album. So here’s me, hugging the album in it’s box.
The details are stunning and well done – simple is best and it give the album this distinct elegance as opposed to the traditional albums we are used to seeing in the Indian market.
Once I have gotten over the box itself, I open the box and the album emerges. It feels solid and the weight is just right. I advise my clients to go for albums with the very special images instead of filling it up with unnecessary, non-memory-evoking photos from the events. Fewer images with more emotional impact and more nostalgia-evoking heart wrenches.
This particular album in the images has twenty sheets of lusciously thick paper – I am not aware of the technical term used for this paper – it is thick card stock and the printing works exceptionally well for my images. The images just glow and the colors pop and the vibrance and feel of the day remains captured on these pages. Gosh. Having something printed in your hands is just magical.
The attention to detail is impressive. The lining inside the box is stitched carefully to the edges with no loose ends and no ugly knots in sight.
This particular album in the images is in a square format of 12 inches by 12 inches. I love the square format personally but Canvera has larger landscape formats as well – the largest being 12 inches by 18 inches.
The edge of the binding that achieves the laid-flat layout of this album.
The gorgeous, lightly textured end paper as it folds into the main album.
My black and white images look stunning on this paper. The photographs I have made are much warmer than the original print on the album, which is whiter, brighter and richer. Please don’t go by the colors in the photos – it is impossible to reproduce the exact look of the album. Happy to show the album to you in person – give me a call and let’s meet for coffee.
Twenty sheets means forty pages and the layout can determine the number of images captured. I prefer one image to one page and sometimes when I have a horizontal frame, I layout the image across two pages.
As you can see, this album truly does lay flat and the experience of turning the pages and viewing your wedding images in their full glory is something exceptional.
Above is one of my favorite ways of laying out an image – one landscape image across two pages. It leave a column of space that adds to the elegance of the design. Some couples use that space to invite family and friends to write personal messages as well – you can order two copies – one to get those messages written in and another, untouched, pristine, cherished like a heirloom.
Now that I have this album with me, I am extremely tempted to publish my non-wedding work in such a book as well. More saving up to do for that edition now!
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3 comments
hi naina…..i luv ths album n want to knw the price plss….
mam your photography is awesome….!!!
Hi Naina,
This is shahnawaz , I loved your photography and I want the detail along with price,
Please email me soon,
thank you
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