Archive for the ‘photo books’ Category
The Best Photo Books of 2008
Posted on: 16 January 2009
PopPhoto lists and briefly reviews their Best Photo Books of 2008. This is a good place to learn a little about what other photographers are reading/viewing.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post (Scott Kelby showing readers how to create a “travel workflow”) here he suggests videos to watch if you’re considering making photo books.
I had so many requests last week to show how to create Photo Book layouts (like the one I did for my trip to Turkey, Greece, and Egypt), that I did three short videos for you (below), to show you how, but using different applications. The three videos are:
- How to create them in Apple’s iPhoto
- How to create them in Lighroom 2
- How to create them from scratch in Photoshop CS4 using Smart Objects [via Photoshop Insider]
Read the rest of the story and get the links to the videos.
Photography books. I love what David Auer says about the many out there:
Photography is such an expansive subject and it’s quite impossible to cover everything in a single book. Some books focus on very specific topics, but contain in-depth information. Other books are broad, but just skim the surface. Regardless of the style, many informational photography books drone on page after page, leaving the reader in a haze of technobabble and jargon. [via Epic Edits]
Yet there is hope. It appears that Tom Ang’s Fundamentals of Photography is at least worth it’s price.
I received a copy of the Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang, and I must admit that I was skeptical of the book before I opened it. I assumed it would be one of those “talk about everything” books with a very shallow offering of knowledge. I was wrong.
I don’t know how he did it, but Tom Ang managed to pack an incredible amount of information into this small handbook. Not only is the information valuable, it’s extremely concise and well laid out. The book would be great as a front-to-back read or as a reference book for the occasional information search. Oh, and it covers both film and digital photography! [via Epic Edits]
You can read the review here or get your hands on a copy–Fundamentals of Photography
Jörg Colberg of Conscientious discusses the pros and cons of self-publishing a photobook. Later he consults with a number of photographers/artists who offer more suggestions on self-publishing.
In an earlier post, I looked into the kinds of problems one can get with “on-demand” book publishing – where you send off your book (actual the electronic version of it) to be printed somewhere else (only to then get it back with strong magenta casts on thin paper, for example). What appears to be somewhat forgotten is that before on-demand publishing existed, photographers published their own books simply (or maybe I should write “simply”) by printing photographs and then by binding the pages into a book (or getting this last bit done by someone with the necessary skill set).
Needless to say, this type of self publishing seems to require a fair amount of work – but then, the photographer is in full control of the final product (and I’ll take a book produced this way over any on-demand book at any given time – if you’ve ever seen examples of both types you know why); and who says that producing a book should take no time? But how much work exactly? How much does it cost? What does one have to do to create a book like this?
Several photographers/artists were kind enough to send me information about the process etc., which they allowed me to share here. [via Conscientious]
Liberate Your Photos
Posted on: 2 September 2008
PhotoInduced has a guest speaker today. Debbie Zeitman discusses how to liberate your photos.
I’ve become a big fan of liberating my photos and designing photo books to be printed and kept on my living room shelf. Memories become more precisely organized and the feel of a book in my hand can’t be beat. Sitting beside someone on a couch and looking through a book together simply feels better than sitting in front of a computer screen as images flash by. At least to me. In moments of computer sharing I start to feel as if I’m treating a visitor – even an eager viewer – to one of those slide shows of ‘Look at my vacation’ mocked in countless movies to reveal the obliviousness of the host. [via PhotoInduced]
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