I was chatting on the phone today to someone enquiring about portrait photos for their family. They commented on how they liked the style of my photography and how they preferred it over some other styles of photography they had seen. Being immersed in photography all the time, obviously I see a lot of ways of capturing a scene with a camera and presenting it as an album.
Personally I like to use Queensberry albums for their quality of materials, construction and variety of colours and designs. I won’t boast of using the most up to the minute styles because I don’t. A while after starting Moment Photography I came to the conclusion that latest is not necessarily greatest. That’s not a cop out either. Remember some of the styles of clothing from a few decades ago, are those styles still hip and trendy? Not really, and neither do I want to give you products that are hip and trendy today and cringeworthy tomorrow. Similarly I like to produce products that not only look great in years to come for their styling but also for their durability.
So the next time you are looking at a photographer’s work which has been manipulated with funky styles in Photoshop, taken at an acute angle or arranged as a pretty scrap book digital layout in an album, think if it will look great in 10 years time.
Even if you find a photographer who takes lovely images, how are those images going to end up, are they going to be locked in time as the funkiest design of the decade or are they going to look timeless and as beautiful in 20 years time as they do today? If your are looking for the latter, give me a call. :O)
Your photos: Timeless or trendy?
