Compass 2017 copy right Douglass Stockdale A few days ago I was tagged for the 7 Day Black & White Challenge; Seven days. Black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Nominate someone. I was nominated by Kellie Webb and over the seven days I am to nominate someone else to pass this... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale – Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book
Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale My self-published Guide was formally launched at the Medium Photo Festival in San Diego, CA last week end. A copy was provided for each person who registered for Medium, compliments of my book sponsor, Dual Graphics, the book printer located in Brea, CA (note:... Continue Reading →
San Diego walk-about in North Park
While down in San Diego's North Park region for the Medium Festival I had a chance to join John Gossage as the two of us did a local walk-about around the neighborhood near the Lafayette Hotel. We had just finished a rambling hour and half "interview" that I published in The PhotoBook Journal when he... Continue Reading →
Solving Crunchy photographs – part 2
San Diego, January 2017 (Middle Ground) copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Back in early August, I was lamenting over some "crunchy" looking photographs and what I thought was the resolution to my problems. Now I am pretty sure I was not quite right, but nevertheless close since in fact I was very much over-sharpening my JPEG... Continue Reading →
How-to Photo Book donation
Technical Photo Book Donation, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am running out of library space, plain and simple. My shelves are over-run and it is time to make some decisions as to what is going to go versus stay. Thus the low-hanging fruit to dispose of are all of my out-of-date how-to and technical photo... Continue Reading →
Intro to Photo Book Design workshop outline – Third Edition pending
Red lines, Workshop outline, Second Edition, 2017 Douglas Stockdale As I stated in an earlier post, in conjunction with the current workshop class, we self-published the second edition of the Workshop outline. I had really thought that this outline text was pretty well nailed-down. Alas, due to the eagle eyes of my workshop participants, Jocelyn... Continue Reading →
Intro to Photo Book Design workshop outline – Second Edition self-published
Introduction to Photo Book Design workshop outline, 2017 Copyright Douglas Stockdale In the middle of last month I wrote about updating my workshop outline for Introduction to Photo Book Design that I lead for LACP. Thus this last weekend, with the help of the workshop class, we self-published the second Edition of this awesome course... Continue Reading →
L.A. Street photography last weekend
Los Angeles street graffiti 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While in Los Angeles this weekend to lead my Intro to Photo Book Design workshop at LACP, I thought it pure serendipity that some street graffiti of a shadowy book reader would be right in my pathway. Especially after I had posting a couple of photographs on... Continue Reading →
Book dummy: Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book
book dummy, Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book 2017 Douglas Stockdale Well today I just posted on Instagram the photo above revealing what my book commission is about that I have been working so diligently on for the past three weeks. Not that I was looking to write a how-to, but there are some... Continue Reading →
Book commission – editing in progress
Book commission, edits 2017 Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I blogged about the working on the text formatting process for this book commission. In the meantime Craig and I worked out a text layout design and a method to work together on how to complete this aspect of the book. While working on... Continue Reading →