Archive for April, 2007

Sarah and Lisa Walsh got together with Tiffany and did these bridals at the Benn Conger Inn.   Tiffany is getting married June 16th.

One night a bit over six months ago we shot Sarah’s maternity photos - that slideshow is here: http://slideshow.pictureinfinity.com/dardis/

Twelve hours later, Ava was born!  We were shocked when we heard Ava was born so soon after the shoot.  I always tell people that story so that they don’t wait when they want maternity photos!  “Look, Ava was born 12 hours after our shoot - Sarah almost didn’t have these photos!”

We were back 3 months later for this: http://slideshow.pictureinfinity.com/avadardis/  3 month old Ava giving us her shocked & surprised and tongue sticking out looks! 

Well of course everything changes so without further ado, I bring you new Ava photos!

Ava’s slideshow will be right HERE as soon as it finishes uploading.  is here: http://slideshow.pictureinfinity.com/ava6mo/index.html   

Thanks for looking & let us know what you think!  Remember, if you need maternity photos done, do them early enough that you don’t have your baby the next day!

 Our new lab just announced a special on folded greeting cards so we’re going to pass it along:

All folded greeting cards ordered through US directly (not Pictage) are 50% off through April 30th.  The shoot must already be completed and you need to contact us directly for the special pricing.  The best thing about having this new lab is they run these great specials so check back often for our new specials!

Here’s a test of your memory skills and how long you’ve been with Picture Infinity.  Do you remember Amy & Clayton’s wedding?  Amy was our bride with the mad flower holding skillz.  She’s been featured in the Syracuse Wedding Magazine and Rochester Wedding Magazine for about a year running now.  You can pick one up at your local bridal shop and she’s in it.Well Clayton & Amy are PREGNANT!!! (YAY!  Congratulations guys!)  So we hooked up with them to do some maternity shots.  Check out how good these guys look:
       

Ok loyal blog readers - boy or girl?  They don’t know yet!!!  Post your comments and I’ll post the answer when we know.  It should be soon!

For those of you who missed it or forgot, here is that photo of Amy:

Heather and Stefan have some VERY cool friends!  They are also very much in love.  Our second wedding of 2007 turned out to be quite the amazing event.  This couple did anything we asked - it was fantastic!  They also had great friends in the wedding party who made our job easy, fun and very cool.  Heather & Stefan are fairly easy on the eyes so I’m going to let their images say most of the rest…

Here are some images from Heather & Stefan’s AMAZING wedding on April 7th.  As I promised last year, I want to show more images so enjoy!  At the end of this post is a link to their whole slideshow!!

Hope you’re enjoying the new site so far!  We had a great idea - we’re extending our Pre-registration gift cards to all future 2007 weddings!  If you are one of our 2007 brides you should be getting an email from Pictage.com soon that says

“Picture Infinity Studios has scheduled your event: Xxxxw & Yyyyz Wedding on Pictage.com and is very pleased to offer a $5.00 Gift Certificate to ALL guests who register to view your event prior to it being available online.

Here’s what to do:
1. Send friends and family your event website link: http://www.pictage.com/eventID
2. Your guests regsiter with Pictage.com, before the event is available to view online
3. Once your event is online, your guests will receive the gift certificate credit in their account”

So that’s it!  It’s simple to share the Gift Cards.  All of your guests who register for the event before it’s released will be eligible to pre-register and receive $5 off any orders they place.  So far I’ve completed all the pre-August weddings and will finish the rest soon.

OH!  And the Lamkay/Kowalski wedding should be ready on our end as soon as Pictage releases it back to me!  I’ve uploaded the OVER 700 FILES and we’re waiting on news that it’s ready.

Having been incognito for so long, we have a LOT of shoots to catch up on posting but I thought it would be cool to post a photo right now from Nardine & Ramez’ engagement ceremony today at Saint Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church. 

We are going back to the reception shortly but since we had a break, just thought it would be fun to post a same-day photo.

Well, you’re reading this, so obviously we’re done.

I never, ever, ever, EVER want to do that again! 

So what exactly is a relaunch?  We examined every aspect of our business, things we’ve learned over the last few years, products we offered, wanted to offer and had thought about offering.  We looked at our color scheme and what it “said” about us.  We examined our prices, our business strategy, and ultimately we looked closely at ourselves.

Our old blue on blue scheme said to us “professional, corporate and traditional.”  Those are all very good things to be.  Those of you who know us, however, know that “corporate and traditional” aren’t the words you would likely use to describe me & Sarah.  We try to be fun, exciting and we tend to be a bit more hyper than the average person.  We love our work and we show it.  Hopefully the new look around here & the website shows a bit more “fun & happy” part of us.  We want to attract clients who are like us and we feel this is the best way!  We’d love your feedback.

So what’s new?  Well definitely take a look around but here are just a few of the highlights:

1) New pricing!  http://www.pictureinfinity.com/pages/index.html <—This is a full product catalog for our wedding offerings.  You can click on ANY product on that page and you will be taken to a complete description of the product and the available sizes/products in that line.  You can click on a package title to see what each package contains as well.  It’s a much more visual way of seeing what you get with us.

2) New products!  Designer Albums, Leather Craftsmen Matted albums, DVD Slideshows, Picbooks, custom framing, and pre-registration gift cards for your guests.  We came up with some of the coolest products we could find and made sure it was affordable to get them.  Our average package is actually MORE affordable!

3) Wait, Packages?  Yes, we now have four packages.  They are Simplicity Packages which means - if you have to ask, the answer is a la carte.  “Can I get a signature mat instead of signable guestbook?”  Yes, but it’s custom.  “Can I have you for less than full day?”  Yes, but it’s custom.

4) New galleries and tunes.  Check out the new imagery in four galleries: Beauty, Celebration, Eternal and Romance.  Beauty features images that struck us by the color, clarity and popping look.  Celebration is our FUN gallery - some of the most interesting, entertaining images we have.  Eternal gallery is our classic black & white and sepia toned imagery.  These are timeless, classic images we love creating.  Romance is a gallery just for our couples!  We wanted to create a gallery just for the love our brides & grooms have for each other and how we capture that.  As far as the tunes - well listen to the site.  If you listen long enough, the song will actually change.  We’re looking at adding a third song so it doesn’t repeat quite as quickly.

5) New LAB.  We have partnered with Pictage to offer more products, better (we pray!) services and a better experience overall.  Our lab nightmares were well documented on our old blog.  We have many photographer friends who use and love Pictage so we hope that our experience is as good.  We aren’t afraid to change this if things go astray!  Pictage allows us to offer Picbooks, Custom First Edition Prints and other very cool products. 

6) A new blog of course!  We wanted to show off larger images, have more control over layout, and add a whole ton of cool features to the blog.  There is a wedding planning page which we will update a LOT more, pages for our clients, us, and our friends!  There’s also a page to help us - if you want to write a review or testimonial for Picture Infinity just follow the links!  We also added a Slide of images to the header of this page and will be updating it frequently (it’s so easy!)  We will also have categories for posts so if you want to see all of our slideshows as we add them click the slideshow category and you’ll see ALL of those posts.  This blog works so much better that way than the old one! 

If you want to keep us around make sure you add us to your rss feed reader using the links on the left sidebar.  You can digg the blog, add us to your Facebook group, or subscribe to the blog in a bunch of ways. 

THANK YOU for bearing with us during this LONG transition and we appreciate the love & support you all give us.  We really love our clients and friends and hope to help you all in any way we can this year, next and beyond. 

Comment!  Let us know what you think!