Photographer/Studio Owner John Wilson

I use to own and operate a custom black & white photo lab with a couple of other portrait studios I owned in Chattanooga, Tennessee. My photo lab was called Creative Darkrooms for the sake of anyone reading who might remember.  I prefer my digital design photo lab now.

Serving professional photographers all over the United States. I'm a stickler about printing true black & white images. Back then in my film and chemical days, I was printing with Aristo cold light enlarger heads. The Aristo enlarger heads didn't put out heat which would often cause a film negative to buckle under traditional enlarger light causing focus issues on paper. Also the Aristo light minimized the appearance of dust specks on prints.

Printing color film on Kodak Panalure photo paper and on a variety of multi-contrast b&w papers from various manufacturers. Ansel Adams and the zone system were my heroes. Today, my goal is creating black & white photographic prints with all eleven zones between the whitest whites to the blackest of blacks truly represented where possible. Real B&W. I do NOT like so-called B&W photographs which are muddy zones of grey with no clean whites anywhere to be found.

Also still operating my photography business at the time as Wedding Photographics.  Shooting with two Pentax 645 medium format film cameras.  Must have shot well over 500 film weddings before moving to Chattanooga.

This is the way to design your digital wedding album.  I encourage my wedding clients to sit down with me in my digital design photo lab and we can take a whole day if necessary.  Especially if designing a 40 page wedding album.  The vast majority of weddings are best shown in a 30 to 40 page wedding album.  We can experiment with various sizing, color borders, shadowing, making some images design elements and a lot more!  No hurry to make sure we design a gorgeous wedding album that you will love for many years to come.