Hours
Monday Monday 9:30 – 4
Tuesday 9:30 – 4
Wednesday 9:30 – 4
Thursday 9:30 – 4
Friday 9:30 – 4
OPEN DURING LUNCH HOUR
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays CLOSED
Hours may vary, call to confirm
Due to various family and business commitments, my opening days & hours may vary. I highly recommend reaching out to confirm my availability before planning your visit.
Thank you to everyone for your continued loyalty and support.
Call today to verify my hours 403-327-1114
Started in 1985 by Mike Paterson. Paterson Photography quickly grew to be one of the leaders in the photography industry in Lethbridge and southern Alberta. Paterson Photography has always been on the cutting edge of the photo business and continues to be so, even today. Offering more than just a standard photography studio.
Printing – One Hour & Custom Printing First Choice Photo Lab
In the early 2000’s Mike opened his custom photo printing division to the general public. Catering to beginners, advanced amateurs, professional photographers, artists as well as many graphic companies around western Canada.
Now with an expansion of the printing department Mike provides photo printing to all level of photographers with both the one hour and custom photo lab divisions.
A LARGE selection of media from canvas, luster, pearl, matte, metallic, fine art. Same day prints, online picture ordering, Paterson Photography Ltd. / First Choice Photo Lab is your best choice for one hour and custom photo prints in Lethbridge and area.
Offering prints from wallets to 24×100 inches on a variety of media. No cheap, thin poor color poster prints like many places offer. All printing is done on archival media at the highest resolutions. Printing for individuals, companies and groups that want quality prints that look amazing. Traditional photo lab prints with outstanding quality, better than your discount and drug stores! If you need a one hour lab or a custom lab call Paterson Photography / First Choice Photo Lab, you will be glad you did!
If you need photo restorations, slides scanned or negatives scanned. Prints from slides, prints from negatives, fire restoration, flood restorations, old prints copied Mike at First Choice Photo Lab is the only choice!!
Digital Photography
The early 90’s found a new trend starting in photography studios, Digital. Mike wanted to know more about what was happening. During a business trip to Vancouver Mike had a chance to try one of the first digital studios in Canada and was impressed with what he saw.
Spending a lot of time researching digital Mike tried a couple of digital systems to add to his traditional photo studio. Dabbling in digital was not enough and in the late 90’s Mike jumped into digital all the way. Converting his studio to 100% digital in 1999, many years before many even heard of a digital camera. This jump to digital opened up an entire new area of work in offering copy work and digital copies of old photos.
Around this time Mike was introduced to one of the top Adobe experts in north America to allow him to work on old photos and this created a desire to know more about photo restoration and retouching. Now with Photoshop training at Langara College and numerous courses directly from Adobe, as well as many thousand of hours working on photos. Mike is recognized as an industry expert when it comes to old photo restorations.