Help me find the right album

[tbfoto]

I've shot about a dozen or so weddings over the past couple years and I have priced my package to include a "proof album" that includes a 4x6 finished print of everything that I shoot.

1. This guarantees me a sale of at least one of each print.
2. I have always had good reprint sales after these are presented.

My problem is finding a good looking album that will hold 300 or so shots. I would like to find something in a 3 ring configuration that I can add/subtract pages as needed. I dont put the images behind mattes. Can anyone here help?

I'm embarresed to say that the best ones I have found so far come from.......well.....Walmart.
I would like something nicer but dont want to pay $100-$200 for a album.

[Phil V]

Firstly, if you're showing clients 'everything' you shoot; you're either a genius OR you're letting yourself down by showing some of your substandard work. Why do you think you need a sale of every print? Isn't it better to sell 50 images from a wedding in a nice album for a fortune than hand over everything for some kind of point scoring (at least I sold one of each photo!)?

Secondly, I know a lot of Pro's use those Walmart albums, a slightly classier but inexpensive alternative is to use a presentation box for proofs.

Personally I proof via a DVD slideshow (for many reasons), and all my packages include a quality album.

[tbfoto]

Firstly....No I do not show every shot to the client. However I do give them about 300 out of every 350-400. I seperate myself from all the "other" wedding photographers by providing my clients an album that tells the story of their wedding day from the moment they arrive to their last dance of the evening. I think that only shooting weddings in a posed portrait style gets real old. I do include those shots but its caputring all the other little things that make my albums special to my clients.

And YES I do want to sell every single print. That's my buisness! I shoot images to sell!
Why give your clients 50 prints to choose from when I can give them 300. Almost every wedding I've done, the bride has ordered at least one more of every shot, not counting those that they want enlargments of. My extra cost of shooting this many images is usually made up in the sale of just one enlargment.

I know that there are many different styles out there. I hope I have found my ninch.

[CyberPet]

I only show proof's online. Seems to work fine, my last client did order 200 prints (some of course of the same image, in different sizes) and did pick about half of the images I did - since I did provide a few different versions of the same thing, I only expect them to go with 1/3, but it seems they can never say no and want half.