They say “all good things come to an end”, “change is good”, myself -I  said at the Mystic conference “it is always a good time to re-invent”.  Enter Finao, a bad ass album company, to help us with the reinventing of altF.  Yes…. an album company.   As of the beginning of 2010 we have been changing things all across the board here at altF and our albums are not immune to those changes.   As of a couple of months ago we have stopped the production of our hand crafted albums and passed over the craftsmanship of our books to the folks at Finao.   I know some will be disappointed, as we have been at the very forefront of artist crafted books for the last 11 years, but not to worry - I will still have my hands busy creating things, it will just be in a different place. Having Finao produce our wedding books will free us to do what we do best which is push the boundaries and do things people haven’t seen yet.  So with that, I’ll leave you with a small hint on why we have chosen Finao over all the other album companies:  There are a lot of great album companies out there and Finao’s quality (which is superb by the way) was only a very small part of the equation.  We picked Finao because of their attitude, passion, and style line up with our philosophy here at altF.  Frankly we are just “trying our best” to be bad ass fucking photographers and we need one bad ass fucking album company to make our books. Finao!

.johnmichaelcooper.

ps. I also like that there is an “F” in Finao.

a few of our new samples and a good segue into moving away from our albums to Finao’s with a 12×18″ book with a decade of our artwork,  signature images from 2000-2009.

uploaded thursday, in the mail friday!

As some know, we have been hand crafting our own albums for almost 10 years now.  And now with our signature workflow so efficient and the fact that our fabulous production assistant, Rachel, can now build even better books than myself, we’ve decided to offer up some of our extra capacity to a few select photographers (sorry invite only) giving them a chance to provide some of their clients with our very couture hand bound books.  The above images are the first book we have ever built for another photographer. BTW, we recieved the files on Thursday afternoon and the book was in the mail Friday… 1 day for our first!  Album companies do you hear that? time to step up your game..  Also our video tutorial on making your own albums will still be available for a little while longer (we are planning on retiring it in the near future). You can find that here:  http://altf.com/c