Looking at one photograph at a time
Commission book dummy, text layout alternatives, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale At the end of last week I posted about having a better defined book dummy; a straw man for the amount of pages I might need and well into the process of using post-it notes to signify what attributes of this book commission were going... Continue Reading →
Commission book dummy, saddle stitch 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For those who have been following me on the development of this book commission, it has been a crazy week. I am now back to developing the book dummy. Last Friday I mocked-up a potential book dummy to the proper book trim size using some stationary... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design, self-published 2017, Douglas Stockdale In preparation for the next two-day workshop Introduction to Photo Book Design that I will be leading for LACP, I am in the process of making the edits to my first self-published work-book that I use for this workshop. This will soon become the Second Edition of... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited and honored to announce that I am a guest curator for L.A. Photo Curator with my call for submissions on the subject of Boundaries. Call for Entry: Boundaries with guest curator Douglas Stockdale Deadline to enter: October 11, 2017 "How do we establish and understand... Continue Reading →
Commission dummy, trim size , copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale When developing a photo/artist book I am a very firm believer in the creation of a book-dummy to be able to pre-visualize the final published book. It is very hard to look at a monitor or screen to obtain how a potential book feels as an object.... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that I just received a book commission from a company that I have been mentoring on photobooks. This is going to be a bit of whirl wind affair in that the book has to be developed, printed and launched by the end of October. Although... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design – This Fall (October 1 and 8th), I will be repeating my popular two-day workshop in conjunction with the Los Angeles Center for Photograph (LACP). This workshop focuses on the fundamental development of a book object. The two-day goal of the workshop is for each person to leave with a first rough draft of their... Continue Reading →
Frosty Morning, LaHutte, Switzerland, copyright 2005-2017 Douglas Stockdale Okay, it's actually been a little over ten years ago that I started photo-blogging, which was in April 2007, with this being my first post. I thought it might be charming to revisit the same Swiss winter landscape, this time in color. More about this photo in... Continue Reading →
South Coast Repertory (SCR) cast photo, Into the Woods, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago SCR had a "family day" free performance for the Young Players version of the play Into the Woods which fortunately Ella was cast as one of the "evil" step-sisters. So all the cast in costume were available for... Continue Reading →
Big Raft, Bluewater Shore, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Recently I have been evaluating the enlargement of photographic images from Bluewater Shore beyond the 15 x 15" prints that I can make on my Epson 4800 printer. The idea was three-fold; what did this image look like in a larger size (kinda of obvious), if a larger print... Continue Reading →
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