Looking for help on how to write a conditional statement in the album.php file.
I'd like to exclude some of the features in this file for specific albums. For example, if album name is 'videos', do not show getNumImages.
Any help is much appreciated.

Several options (assuming you have read the theming tutorial).

1. Use http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphotos-object-model-framework
2. Use http://www.zenphoto.org/news/multiple_layouts
3. "Old style": use album themes

For a layman like myself, option 2 works brilliantly. Thank you, sir.