Another satisfied GraphiStudio customer.
Stephanie Blake stayed up late at night going from one website to another,
checking out photographer after photographer. After a ton of time
and effort, she wasn't any closer to a decision. One thing was certain,
she liked her friend's videographer. When she met with Dan at Plug Video
she asked him who he liked and worked well with, that's when they were pointed
our direction. What they originally signed up for was a magazine
album package, but Stephanie saw and liked the GraphiStudio books. Her
wedding day came along and the storm clouds were looming. It looked like
rain, and unfortunately this wasn't a good thing because they were planning for
an outdoor wedding at Coyote Hills Country Club. Somehow the gods must
have been listening to her prayers because the storm passed close by but it
didn't rain until it was dark. Nathan was just so excited to get married
to her, his attitude was so great. If you knew Stephanie you
would know why, not only is she beautiful, but she is nice, and just has a great
personality. These were two people who were so genuinely happy to
get married to each other that it may just as well rained because it wouldn't
ruin their day.
Normally, overcast lighting is great. But the weather was nearly rain so
the dark, dark clouds tended to make the images look dark and dull. It was
Photoshop to the rescue. We went through and spent hours breathing new
life into images. By the time we were done, we had our skills pushed to
their limits. The end result was amazing! When she came and
saw her book with Nathan they had no idea how well the images turned out.
Everything was so large, and sharp, and colorful, and vivid.
She kept looking through the pictures saying "I'm just happy!" They
were both full of hugs and literally bounced out of our living room.
We decided to snap some pictures of them reviewing the book and holding up
their polished metal (mirror) full color cover. It's breathtaking.
Look at the image to the right, do they look like they are happy? She's
going to first take this book to work and show it to everybody she works with,
and she can retell the story of her wedding day, and people will be impressed
about how beautiful she was, and what a wonderful day she had. Then she is
going to call her girlfriends and meet them at Starbucks and go over her wedding
day with them. As she relives the stories she is going to feel like
a celebrity. How do we know this for certain? We get phone calls and
e-mails from our clients, a week or two after getting their books. "My mom
cried" or "Everybody in my office wanted to see my book." We even
get phone calls from clients we've had two years earlier who take their books in
to show all the newly engaged people at work. Now, that's a
testament, showing your book off to somebody a full two years after your
wedding!
After nearly ten years of doing wedding photography, we haven't had anybody more
excited about their wedding albums and wedding books as we have had over the
last couple of years. If you come by, we'll gladly show you a copy
of Nathan and Stephanie's wedding, and many of the the dozens of other weddings
we have. You really have to see their wedding. You would be
surprised to think that it almost rained.
Hello! Is this thing on?- 02/09/06
Lecia always said that Steve would work 24 hours a day if he could. Well,
now he does. Even while Steve is sleeping he's talking about Artisan
Magazine Albums and Coffee Table Books. . . literally. Attached to the
price lists for the Artisan Magazine and Coffee Table Books is a link to a slide
show. Each show lasts around 20 minutes. The show's cover a very in
depth introduction, and overview of the package, and a complete description of
the price lists. Also, there are examples of the packages with a lot of
graphics and images.
This is something new, and we always appreciate feedback
on the project.
 The
return of the Bee-Hive?
This is an image sent to us ( in pieces) from Wedding Channel Magazine.
It's reminding me of the B-52's and all the Austin Power movies. Swinging 60's
here we come, yeah baby!
Still working on the site! -01/13/06
After a well deserved vacation, we are now back to work on the site.
Just before we left, we made the big switch to IPowerweb.com and not everything
transferred perfectly. We had a problem with our price list
not loading. That is now fixed. Also, the home page was a bit, well,
boring. Instead of showing a bunch of lovely images just like every other
studio's website, we instead focused on showing what we could do with these
lovely images. The home page now focuses on the many different and
exciting albums we offer.
The website will be a perpetual project, we plan to add to it and upgrade it
often. Still if you run across anything that doesn't work, doesn't make
sense, or needs improvements, please let us know.
A new year and a new look- 01/02/06
Thank you for visiting
www.LifetimeImages.com. This is our new website and we are very
excited about it! We started building our website around 1997, and the
software wasn't very good back then. We just kept adding on to it,
so the problems only got worse over time. More than anything the
information and images became very stale. This time around we wanted to
build the site right. We wanted to streamline the site and have our
more recent images on the site.
We had anticipated having a little more time at the end of 2005 to work on
this site, but we got caught up in year end projects. Thankfully, this
site has our price list, contact information, and images at this time. We will
be adding back in some of the old favorite stuff and some new stuff. We are very
excited to have our site hosted by
www.IPowerweb.com . They are giving us 50 times more space than our
old website host, and a HUGE bandwidth increase. What this means is
that we will be able to do newer and more creative things with our website.
Of course we are always looking for feedback from people, if something doesn't
work or could use improvements please drop us a line at our
feedback section of this site. Thanks again for
visiting!
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