Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 Thus the low-hanging fruit to dispose of are all of my out-of-date how-to and technical photo...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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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, 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 →
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 →
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