Yeah. I would not expect to see any new images in here for a while. I'm deep into the publishing thing now - trying to get the bricks together for the building. The last piece of this puzzle right now is trying to get the output to look right in the PDF and fooling around with what exactly the Acrobat Distiller is doing to my images - i.e. it seems to be pixilating them right now.... some setting somewhere...keeping the size of the PDF down... and like that...
The layout, in terms of creating "master pages" is pretty much complete for the picture part of the book. The size is set: it is going to be a square 7.5 x 7.5
I like the way that both vertical and horizontal shots fit in this format.
The gutters have been cleaned. The bleeds have been staunched.
And on top of that - orders are continuing to drop by for a visit. Summer is a good time to do all this since I rarely get anything shooting in this heat /light / humidity anyway.
I notice in the Gibson interview that he sold 22,000 books the first year. I hope to exceed that.
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Great link from Barrett, the Gibson interview is cool! I have a book (which you can have) on how to publish a photobook, and the chapter on Gibson's making "The Somnambulist" was the best by far. Ralph's as good at laying out a book as anyone (except maybe Robert Delpire) and Gibson also published Clark's masterpiece, Tulsa! I think I sold around 250 copies of my book the first year and was quite happy, so if you sell 22,000 books, I'll...be blown away!
Dave,
Are you taking pre-orders? If so, I want to be as high on the list as possible. For both the books (if you do a simpler one than the 11th man first).
I'm definitely doing a simpler book before the 11th man. If you've ever seen any of the small square Aperture Masters of Photography books - it will be in that style.
I'm not taking pre-orders - because I don't know yet how it will all turn out. But consider yourself high on pseudo pre-order list :)
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