Top Class Portraits™ | Multimedia Digital Photo Lab
Full service Portrait & Wedding Photography Studio & Multimedia Lab based in Athens, Tennessee
Full service Portrait & Wedding Photography Studio & Multimedia Lab based in Athens, Tennessee
360° Virtual 3D Aerial View of Our Studio Location
STUDIO BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Our custom lab services available only to our portrait session customers, our own Top Class Portraits photographers and professional photographers who rent our studio and/or Portrait Park immediately behind the studio.
Portrait customers of Top Class Portraits™ may upload your photos to the lab for printing using the FILE UPLOADER below. This may include your own photos you've taken inside the studio as well as in the "Portrait Park" outside area behind the studio as well as at other locations with your own camera.
If it has been several months or even over a year, you may also upload your favorite images from any of your portrait sessions you've had with us. You must also have your payment information on file at my office to minimize transmission of your payment info across the internet. Your order will be ready for pick-up at the studio by the next business day.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING:
We do NOT guarantee photo enhancements, retouch, printing, manipulation or inferior services of other photo labs which you may take to have digital portraits provided by us to be printed by other photo labs.
Carefully inspect any and all enhancements, retouch, creative applications BEFORE you have printed by our photo lab or by any other photo lab. Especially for enlargement. For example, retouch that may not be visible in a small print, may become visible in a larger print.
When you choose our in-house photo lab for printing - we make further corrections to the digital portrait before we print . . . and at no additional charge. We are a CUSTOM digital lab. This means you WILL receive better quality and faster service from us than probably any other lab anywhere in the United States! We usually deliver print orders by next business day at the studio with no shipping & handling charges for pick-up!
GREEN SCREEN PROCESSING:
We can process for you. One green screen processing is included for each hour of portrait session. Hundreds of digital backgrounds to choose from for replacing the green screen. Any additional images you would like to have green screen processing are priced at $1.50 each. These may be uploaded anytime after the session using the Contact Form. We will provide email link to your processed green screen files for full-resolution download. Some digital background examples below.
Here are just a few . . .
Our custom lab services available only to our portrait session customers, our Wedding Photography clients and professional photographers who rent the studio.
You may also order photographic prints from my own on premises multimedia photo lab with next business day pick-up at the studio. Mounting, matting and framing options also available with next business day pick-up also available at the studio. All size photographs from wallet sheets up to 16" x 20" wall portraits. Photographs are printed on professional photographic luster surface paper for exceptional quality and longevity. Paper has a wide color gamut for natural looking skin tones and vibrant color reproduction. Price includes basic retouching and enhancements. Also next business day delivery at the studio for pick-up to avoid shipping & handling fees and no waiting travel time for package to get to you.
Photographic Package Printing: All on Inkjet Lustre Photo Paper. The Same Digital Photo is Printed Per Sheet. Only ONE digital image is printed per package sheet:
One Sheet of Eight Wallets / $8.00
One Sheet of Four Wallets & One 5x7 / $8.00
One Sheet of Two 5x7s / $8.00
One Sheet of Four 3½x5s / $8.00
One 8x10 / $8.00
One 11x14 / $12.00
One 16x20 / $22.00
16"x32", 24"x30" and 18"x24" are available only to commercial clients with larger print orders, our photography customers, Top Class Portraits photographers and other professional photographers who rent our studio.
What is "basic retouch"? Answer: All digital and print images I create for my portrait customers include "basic" photo retouching. I define it as any photo shop retouching I have the skills and ability to do within 60 seconds per image. Doesn't matter how complex or sophisticated some may consider the photo shop technique employed, as long as I can do it for you within 60 seconds - your image will get it as I deem necessary and at no extra charge to you.
Portrait Frames Group A
Portrait Frames Group B
Portrait Frames Group C
36"x12" Framed Panoramic Signature Mat.
36"x12" Framed Panoramic Family Portrait
Your favorite 3 to 5 images. Any names if desired, no extra charge. Mounted on ¼" thick archival photo mount board. Hanging hardware included. Two fine point markers included.
Highly recommend an attendant to standby to help make sure children do not scribble on signature mat.
(Wedding photography clients who have ordered this on the wedding photography contract receive a 50% special discount). Black or Wood frame option.
"I Love Us" is your favorite three photos printed as shown. Printed on lustre inkjet photo paper as 11" x 14" or 16"x 20". You might consider mixing sizes for a creative effect. This is available exclusivelyto our portrait customers, Top Class Portraits™ photographers and other professional photographers who rent the studio.
Each 11" x 14" with file creation fee $15.
Each 16" x 20" with file creation fee $25.
(Might want to consider using these as signature mats for guests to sign best wishes to the couple on the wedding day. There are three shorter lines for guests to stand in if at all so more convenient and faster for guests to go on into the reception for larger weddings).
I prefer to keep the couple mostly photographic and bring in their Wedding Day colors digitally in water color styles. Focus is on the couple and capturing their shared emotions. Digital watercolor images I provide may be printed as sheet of 8 wallets and up to 16"x20" with next business day delivery to the studio for pick-up.
I provide digital watercolor services for photography club members and other photographers who shoot in the studio and our Portrait Park outside behind the studio. All my past portrait and wedding customers may order digital watercolor prints.
This is available exclusivelyto our portrait customers, Top Class Portraits™ photographers and other professional photographers who rent the studio.
This service is available to everyone - amateur and pro photographers in the United States and around the World.
Send us your full resolution JPEGs. We recommend uploading 100 images to us. We will provide all your album page designs on an M-Disc. The M-Disc face may also be customized with Couple's names and wedding date. Twenty digital album pages designed for you. Our price includes shipping & handling of your M-Disc album to you. A hardcover wedding album or book may optionally be ordered from most online album/book companies using the provided full resolution album page designs as is. Pages are default square and sized at 12"x12". When album opened to view two pages at once you have page spreads 12"x24". Let us know if you need different dimensions.
Hardcover album/book not included. The M-Disc album may be upgraded to Deluxe Padded album for $20. If you are local, schedule to sit down in the studio to design your album with us. Want more than 20 pages? Each additional page is $5 with two-page spread required at a time for $10 each additional spread to add to album.
We create a Designer Online Interactive Multimedia Virtual Wedding Album hosted for one year. Each additional year of hosting of the online interactive wedding album only $36.
(The "Album Files UPLOADER" button requires a Google account and sign-in as well as authorization by John once we have received payment in advance for this service. This prevents internet abuse of the uploader).
These are Demo albums. Designer Albums include your 360° Virtual Views & Tours, 4K videos and other files you upload to us. Follow Us on X
Back Cover of this album has a 360° wedding album presentation.
Back Cover of this album has other version of this album design presented as a 4K animated video.
Back Cover of this album has Weddings & Engagements Photo Gallery rotating viewer.
We have Signature Mats available in various colors and sizes. Frames in various colors and styles. Includes Two Signature Pens and Hanging Hardware.
This beautiful Fall online wedding album at DEMO 3.
Over the past 10 years especially we have seen some big advancements in photography and video equipment. Computers and accessories. Also in home television. Namely, Smart TVs. Also huge pricing decreases.
These various electronic technologies is LEADING the wedding photography industry towards making online interactive virtual wedding albums the widely accepted standard by consumers.
They are not a fad. They are not a novelty.
Innovative photographers and videographers who are keeping up with our industries have to see the writing on the wall. The lines between our roles are becoming blurred. In the very near future - there will not be "wedding photographers" and "wedding videographers" as such. The main and lead role will be "Multimedia Wedding Producers".
Just had to address the "naysayers" of these online albums. It's kinda funny that professional videographers charge people hundreds to thousands of dollars for wedding video coverage. What do people tangibly receive? A disc and what are they expected to do? WATCH THE VIDEO ON THEIR TVs. We are all also viewing our photos on computer monitors and TVs as well. A few years ago, still cameras and video cameras were completely seperate devices. Now, our still cameras come with video capabilities that rival and are even superior to the video cameras of yesterday. Even our mobile phones have 4K video capabities.
The next step in the innovation and technological advancement of wedding documentation - is the online interactive multimedia virtual wedding album. It simply consists of all these media as well as 360° views & tours combined into a more cohesive, coordinated and polished end product offering it all together. - John Wilson
This printer used exclusively for my commercial clients for larger print needs and larger orders.
This printer used for printing of photography club member photos and for print orders from portrait customers. All print sizes from wallet sheets up to 11"x14" wall portraits.
This printer used for printing of photography club member photos and for print orders from portrait customers. All print sizes from wallet sheets up to 16"x20" wall portraits.