Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
While working on the film scans for my SoFoBoMo series, one tiny little thing kept dogging me, why was I getting some slight blurriness to my images. Not every image, but enough. Okay, way toooo many. This was another of those distracts that made me wonder, was I just producing crap in this 30 days and if... Continue Reading →
My SoFoBoMo for 2008 is complete! I just uploaded my Blurb BookSmart template and did all of the neccessary things and ordered my production proof of Places Amongst Us. And so it is now out there. Done for the moment. And I feel it almost was not going to happen and in retrospect, choosing to... Continue Reading →
It does appear that I am going to finish my SoFoBoMo project in the Month of May. I just did the last edit on my project Places Amongst Us in my Blurb book template. So tomorrow morning, I will give it another review and then upload to Blurb and order my first copy. The way... Continue Reading →
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