{"id":1774,"date":"2021-10-16T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T19:22:05","slug":"books-photo-book-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/10\/16\/books-photo-book-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Photo Book Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These lay-flat books, which have no center seams because it is built of glued spreads instead of stitched like a normal sewn binding, arrive in a beautiful, fancy, padded box, making this clearly a great gift or special event type of book. The hard cover images are great; they are lovely overall.<\/em>
(The bright spot ear the top center is from sunlight coming through a gap in the blinds: it isn’t the book itself.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before I began my big project of rewriting my first novella into a proper novel, I laid out a monochrome photo book of horizontal images I’ve taken of recent architecture downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blurb<\/a> is a local self-publishing, art-book-printing powerhouse that I’ve used for more than a dozen projects. I decided to try out their new, continuous-spread books with a subset of this body of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is printed beautifully <\/strong>– so beautifully, that I sent a copy to another photographer friend, to inspire him to use them as well! \ud83d\ude42 (He will!).<\/em> I’m really happy I laid this out and ordered it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flaws with the book are with my choice to make it so short<\/strong>: the samples I chose create a photo essay that doesn’t show off the range of architecture I intend to highlight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have the images to make it much more comprehensive, but need to re-shoot some reflections (I’m using a rangefinder, and I boggle it with reflections taken through wires of complex surfaces)<\/em>,<\/span> and be very thoughtful in planning the layouts once I expand it. I’ll likely use Blurb’s regular premium book type (which is sewn\/glued like ordinary books), to get a much longer book with a wider range of layouts than I chose this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I began my big project of rewriting my first novella into a proper novel, I laid out a monochrome photo book of horizontal images I’ve taken of recent architecture downtown. Blurb is a local self-publishing, art-book-printing powerhouse that I’ve used for more than a dozen projects. I decided to try out their new, continuous-spread … <\/p>\n

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