photo-breezing

And now I've spent the evening putting a book together.

Me too! Just a simple 7x7, soft cover, 40pp, kids' pics from 2013. Should be under £20 with postage. Rendering out to Blurb now...

Did you use Lightroom to put it together? I've done mine that way, felt a lot easier to work with than any web editor I've tried before. I think I have my final version now, won't order it til tomorrow night though just in case I think of something else I want to change.

ILP books in '14

Yeah, Lightroom. I kept it very simple.

Made this motherfucker:

http://richardgin.tumblr.com/post/74949332873/good-morning-internet-friends-i-am-pleased-and

Let me know how your Blurb stuff looks. I'm so anal about my colors that I decided to just go w a c-town printer in NYC (vs blurb or shutterfly or kodak or w/e) because I would have rather have the 'we only guarantee to w/in 10%' problem removed from me so I can say "well It's a digital print wtf do you want, dummy?"

Blurb etc all seem so permanent; if I pay 40 bux to have a book made it had better be goddamn ass perfect.

I bought that motherfucker.

(My Blurb book, with shipping and first-time LR discount, was £15. I guess any I order this year for weddings are going to be £50+).

my gf's brother and his gf made a photo book for their parents of their italy trip (which we were also on) and immediately because furious and jealous that I didn't do that myself. I just don't have the need/financials to do a bulk order and get a discount of any note

also your motherfucker is going out TOMORROW dogg

Pretty excited.

To me, the biggest hurdle is any non-photographic content. I'm no great designer, I don't have the tools anyway and, going by last night's experience, it's fairly tedious to layout text and so on in Lightroom. You don't want the cover of a wedding album or whatever to be just thrown together and, if it's a showcase of work for sale, it better be brilliant. I really like your letterpressed cover. I have a friend who could do this...but I'm not sure it would be possible with a finished hardback book with the gear he has.

having a printer you can talk to is a p big deal. mine was INSISTING that we make the cover separate from the guts of the book and then stitch them together. letterpress machines don't like having whole books stuffed into them, y'see.

depending on how DIY/punk rock you are willing to get look @ silkscreen instead of letterpress?

My wife used to do silkscreen; we have Gocco but the ink/bulbs now seem hard to find. She also use to do bookbinding. Somehow I think there enough skills at hand to fashion something, if I just take the pictures. For now, let's see what I can do with LR/Blurb. I'm just lazy - I wanted to be able to knock something together in the Books module in like five minutes and it took - JESUS - ten. If I'm getting paid or aiming to make something worthwhile, I'm sure it won't seem so irksome to take a couple of evenings over it, and learn all the tricks.

JtM which Ctown printer did you use?

Also can I buy this in like 2 weeks?

Hello! Yes I used g&p on Baxter. They were rec by a dude who knows more abt printing than I do. They also beat minuteman by a few hundred bux in a blind bid.

Also as much as I want to say otherwise there will be copies next wk!

http://browncardigan.s3.amazonaws.com/imagesfarm/2014/LbdpMXkjorLaMDm.gif

My Blurb book turned up today, had gone for a hardback with standard weight paper (I think). The quality is quite good, the paper is a good thickness and the hardback is sturdy. Not sure how resilient the binding is though, and the print quality is good rather than excellent, but I guess these are downsides of print-to-order efforts.

Actually it was the Premium Matt paper. Link to it here: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5052725-fifty-two-people

One thing I forgot to say was that the layout of the text works better on screen than it does in the actual book.

removed from public view...

Ah, sorry, this might work: http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/4288949/59bfde5051c2d90ac1d143c61d71b684d4bd574c

Here's a couple of crap phone snaps of my Blurb book. I like it, it's pretty good. Print quality a bit better than the likes of Photobox but I'd be interested to see what it looks like on different paper.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7412/12320708875_97a753d5c6_z.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3805/12320705405_7d2577f775_z.jpg

oh yeah I got my test book back and I'm pretty pleased! printed on the cheapest paper.
the only element I haven't liked is the way text is printed on the cover stock. it's a little 'soft' and looks sort of cheap, but I'm totally satisfied with the print quality inside the book.
of course the pictures don't look like inkjet prints, and I never really wanted them to. they look like digital offset, which is just fine and, importantly, I think the color reproduction is nice! comparable to commercial photo books that I like.

hows the black density

http://gizmodo.com/led-streetlights-will-change-hollywood-and-make-every-c-1514840416

:( :( :(

First thought is that the new LED lights make LA look like a video game

a cool dream of an led-enriched future is their potential to simplify mechanical projection of film, replacing awkward/hot/scarce old lamps inside small gauge projectors
but yeah that's interesting! like gaslamps -> electric almost

in theory LEDs are dialable to kelvin of choice but god knows we can't be bothered to set a lamp at, like, 4000 K vs 5600 K to keep people from going crazy. on the other hand, alaska in winter

This is my aunt's ceiling lamp, I love the mismatched bulbs (two inc's and 1 fluoro I think)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/colortemp.jpg

The original teal & orange.xls

"... Because once you've begun," he would preach, "there is no reason why you should stop. The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow. If you take a picture of Pierluca because he's building a sand castle, there is no reason not to take his picture while he's crying because the castle has collapsed, and then while the nurse consoles him by helping him find a sea shell in the sand. The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photograph-able way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness."

Read the closing sentences as saying "You must either live in your photographs as much as possible" and I thought, well, I hadn't considered it that way before, but I'll try it out, inhabit those grays, stretch out and lie down and let halides wash over me

Got it! Love the cover material and look.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/12456873135_2fc2ffb6c2_z.jpg

is that jimmy mod's?

Yep.

WOW THAT GOT THERE FAST!

that picture of montana is v popular

http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/429-film-preservation-20/

Remember optical media being touted as a very stable way to store digital information - but I dunno how long a blu-ray keeps for

I had thought Fuji Neopan 400 was long discontinued but I saw some at a shop today... a lot actually

Apparently it's still 'in stock' at a lot of places, though will be discontinued soon

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/covr-prism-mirror-iphone-case/

is this dumb?

http://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-4-In-1-Digital-Converter-F2DSUPER/dp/B00GIDADP0/ref=sr_1_9

also slide film prices continue to skyrocket

fisher price aesthetic super appealing to me
though i just want a koolscan

Wedding at the weekend. Full frame + f/4 zoom and crop frame + fast portrait, but I just kept swapping lenses cos I wanted to use the FF *all the time*. I've just been spoiled by it (particularly by the immensely flattering hi-res LCD).

Will take me all week to weed/pick/process/review but there's not much I enjoy more. Hopefully at least three more this year.

Maybe not that exciting to anyone but me, but someone at Dundee City Archive has started uploading lots of old photos of the city on a Flickr account and I've been finding it fascinating - whole streets in there that were torn down in the modernising zeal of the local council from the middle of last century onwards, continuing to this day with the latest rounds of regeneration. Not to say that it was the wrong thing to do, just that it's brought it home to me how much more the city has changed than I thought it had. I grew up in a village outside a town 20 miles down the road that I suspect has changed very little in the same time.

Here's the whole lot:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/118069284@N05

Here are a few I liked:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/13625976114_436b342d77.jpg
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/13535668883_40f717c044.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/13756596403_b9199fc0d0.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/13756457735_af7af8449b.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/13718548553_118ee22500.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3734/13716379235_6e18844d05.jpg

Love those. That pedestrianised parade of shops is by the railway station, right? I visited Dundee a couple of times about 25 years ago.

Second last shot? Yeah, that's the Overgate, which has since been completely redeveloped again so looks nothing like that. My earliest memories of Dundee are getting the train through with my mum and gran and visiting the numerous 99p shops in there. The station is a few minutes walk away but not far.

I think there was an Our Price there in 1989 or so. I knew a girl who lived on Roseangle, while she was doing her Masters. We went to Oblomov's on Nethergate and climbed to the top of the Law at sunrise. There should be photos somewhere but they may be lost...

my sister lives in rural nebraska and sent me these cellpwn pics of an old red piano that appeared on the edge of a cornfield along her commute a few weeks ago; almost makes me wanna hop in the car and do the 8 hour drive so i can take my own

http://i.imgur.com/ZJFvOzz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XyuupqO.jpg

always hyped to have a new red thing to photograph