Not much to write about at the moment. I am in the middle of installing new flooring in the studio, in preperation for the larger format printer that I have been considering. And as one thing leads to another, this little wood flooring project is being immediately followed up with carpets for the house, because now... Continue Reading →
Blurb – BookSmart 2.0 & 12×12″
I received a heads-up from the Blurb PR folks that they were going to announce a new update on their free book-making software BookSmart. From the press release, it appears to have some of the attributes of InDesign, with added customization capabilities. Wish I could say more, but the Blurb site is a bit slow in running for the... Continue Reading →
Photo Exhibit & The Photo Book
Last year was interesting in that I found myself a little overwhelmed with maintaining my web-journals and other photo-groups and then pulled back. Then one thing led to another. I then jumped back into the thick of things by startinga blog for our monthly photo group called The Photo Exchange. And I realized that I needed to get to more photographic... Continue Reading →
Designing Full Bleed PhotoBook pages
Yesterday, I had provided a very brief overview about my earlier bias against full bleed photographs in a photobook and some reasons why my opinion about full bleed photographs have now changed. I am actively designing my photobooks with the intent of using full bleed photographs. As Martin pointed out in his comment yesterday, after I decide to use... Continue Reading →
Full Bleed Photobook pages
Away Station from my project Insomnia: Hotel Noir photograpy copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting internal changes that have arisen from my recent book reviews is my complete reversal on the use of full bleed photographs being in photobooks. Up till last year, I have realized that I was a bit of a purist (also read... Continue Reading →
Keeping a broad historical perspective
Cover photograph, Oak Tree in Winter, 1842 - 1843, photograph copyright of the William Henry Fox Talbot Estate Well again, I succumbed to temptation at the book store. This time it was a retrospective of the developmental and creative work of one of the early photographic pioneers, William Henry Fox Talbot, published by Phaidon last year.... Continue Reading →
50 Photographers you should know
I am always intrigued by books that state that they have THE list of important information, in this case, 50 Photographers you should know. Nevertheless, I bought the book, published by Prestel and edited by Peter Sepan, a British editor. It also made me think about past books that wanted to provide the history of... Continue Reading →
Photographic book reviews – part II
Reflections from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noirphotography copyright of Douglas Stockdale I have been reading and assessing a lot of photographic books recently to publish on The Photo Book, and to a lesser extent, photographic reviews at galleries, but still looking a ton of images on the Internet. One aspect of these reviews that I bring with me, probably... Continue Reading →
Developing the Limited Edition book
Country Road, Texas from the project In Passingphotography copyright of Douglas Stockdale I have been looking for an elegant way to complete the Limited Edition book and photograph for In Passing. At the moment, it appears that the print will probably be the easier of the two, but I want to do a little more than just shrink... Continue Reading →
My photographic book reviews
Untitled from the project Insomnia: Hotel Noircopyright of Douglas Stockdale I have not discussed that much about writing and publishing my book reviews over on The Photo Book. Probably because of how those reviews and the blog in particular is evolving. And for me, the whole thing is evolving in an unplanned but excellent ways. By background, I... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 