Looking at one photograph at a time
Another take away from my SoFoBoMo book Places Amongst Us has been the relatively feel in my hands of the Blurb square 6-3/4 x 6-3/4" softcover book. Perhaps a little too small. My square images appear to be stuffed in it. Admittedly, I use the LensWork magazine (also softcover & pefect bound) as my "gold standard"... Continue Reading →
I am glad that I let my V1.1 update for my Sharpen Photographs for Blurb Printing rest overnight before uploading the template to Blurb. I think that I still found about half dozen additional edits to complete. This just confirms for me that I usually need some time after completing a project to come back and look... Continue Reading →
I decided that I needed to get the version 1.1 rewrite completed for the Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing book. My thoughts are fresh and I am motivated. A good combination. And it is taking most of the day. I did not think that it needed that many edits, but considering that this was a long... Continue Reading →
Places Amongst Us by Douglas Stockdale Yesterday afternoon I received my "printing proof" of my SoFoBoMo book Places Amongst Us, my softbound printed by Blurb. And of course, its one of those good news, bad news things. First the bad news. I am a goof. Okay, the very first thought as I open the Burb mailer;... Continue Reading →
While making my way around some galleries over the weekend, I was showing my new Blurb books as works in progress. And although I would have perferred a request to hang my work, I did get a serious inquiry as to teaching a one day workshop on how to create a photographic Print on Demand... Continue Reading →
An interesting thing happened to me while I was working my way through the image sharpening for Blurb, I learned more about noise reduction. huh? Okay, I have to admit, up to now, I just accepted noise in my digital images. I could easily see the noise in the skyes of my toned images for... Continue Reading →
I have continued to look and then look again at the various test images in my book Sharpening Photogoraphs for Blub Prining for many times. And I have come to conculsion that I had not selected the best Unsharp Mask setting to get the best results with Blurb printing with the HP Indigo 5000 halftone printer. But I do... Continue Reading →
Yesterday afternoon I received my production proof of my Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing softbound book. One correction I need to make on the next version is that in the Afterword, I have the pages reversed. Only myself to blame on that one! I still want to spend some time looking at the various PS3... Continue Reading →
As I worked on my project Places Amongst Us, there was the frustration that photographs that I really liked were on film and due to my image process, did not make the final cut. But I also see that I missed a short term goal, there is still the long term journey, of which this series... Continue Reading →
Having just completed my SoFoBoMo book it is probably a good time to reflect while the memories of this project are still fresh. So in very random order: Deciding to try this with film and scanning was a mistake for ME. My film processing, scanning and image processing work-flow is too slow. Digital work flow... Continue Reading →
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