Turns Out I Almost Finished A Book
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Just never got around to the editing or writing part.
After finishing my cross country bike trip in 2007 I made a short(76 page) book of pictures and what I ate along the way. I think after exams are over I could redo essentially all of it with better edits, some actual words, and larger pictures. If I don’t get the internship working with the Global Post and some Exposure kids I’ll have a few weeks before I go to Kenya to do what I want. I would love to finish a book, just because I have never really completed a large scale photo project… My only other option for a book right now is doing something on Israel. I have what I feel to be a pretty complete portfolio of a wide variety of images. I could even make the whole book just pinhole photographs! Also interesting to note that until today I never knew that anybody would call darkroomed pinhole photographs not “legit” pinhole photographs…
Maybe check back in a month and I’ll have a pretty book for you all?
Check out what I did awhile ago here.
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There is absolutely no reason not to make a book – print out a billion tiny prints and start shuffling them around. Sequencing is the most fun thing in the world, you learn so much more about your images.
Thanks so much! Your site is most excellent. I’ll try and organize a billion little prints. I get so sad when I don’t have prints to play around with.
I usually wait until a site like colorinc or iprintfromhome has a sale, where it’s about 10 cents each for 3x4s or something like that, and drop a ton of jpgs into a batch upload for little prints. It’s like having trading cards.
You only need like 600 pixel jpgs to make prints that size, so it’s not necessary to make perfect print files. After a while you get a few binders of these prints and can flip through them when looking for images to use for something.
When I was putting Gray Days together I did the first edit, from about 4000 images, on the computer. Then I printed out about 1000, and over the course of 6 months got it down to 60 or so by moving the little cards around.
Hey – I’ve been there and done that with books – seems like i have the images, but feel there needs to be more/better words. Funny, because I came to photography late after lots of word-working. But writing that complements photography is hard – lots of work. Keep at it, you’ll get it I’m sure. Cheers!