Category Archives: photography

our wedding envelope calligraphy!

i have to take a minute to brag about our amazing calligrapher, Nancy Hopkins. she is so talented! calligraphy is such a beautiful art. take a look at how she did the calligraphy for our wedding invitations (which just went out yesterday – phew!) – –  i’m totally in love!

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Melbourne Invitations - Wow these are nice!

mak - Nicole, these are gorgeous! How exciting! :)

professional prints vs. non-professional prints

do you wonder why the professional prints you receive from your photographer look better than when you print the JPGs you received on your CD from your professional photographer at Walgreens, Costco, Target, Shutterfly, etc?! let me explain. Walgreens and Target’s photo printers are made for our point-and-shoot cameras; professional printers are made and calibrated…

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Tim - Great illustration of your point. What’s your go-to lab?

Tom Denegre - This is very helpful, and I will set about finding a local professional lab.

Question: Why have most of my CVS/etc prints come back overly red? You mention grey/green above, but this problem has been the same for my Sony DSC F828 and Sony point and shoot.

Nicole - Hi Tim and Tom – thanks for you comments and questions!

Tim – my go to lab is Bay Photo – i love them.

Tom – it could be a mis-calibration on CVS’s part. you should show them the prints so that they know they’re printing too red – they might not even know since they don’t often check.

I hope that helps!