Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
OK, so if it turns out I'm the only person here who does this, I guess this'll be a really limited thread. But I hope I'm not.
In the couple of years I've been back into photography, I've found an annual photo-book to be the best modern way of pulling out the best of what you've done and put it into an "album" of sorts. They're very easy to pull off of the shelf or table and leaf through, they're easy to make extra prints of for a few close (and supportive) friends and family members, just a good thing to have. Aside from a very few prints that I seem to make a couple times per year, this is the only time I ever view my photos on paper, rather than on electronic screens.
Anyway, I put my 2011 book together this week (after culling through my photos at a leisurely pace over the past few weeks) and sent it off. The theme, not surprisingly is, street photography, because that's what I most tried to get better at this year - it takes up roughly 2/3 of the book. Last year I only started shooting again in April and my book was 200 pages. This year I got a whole year in so I went to 240. If this was primarily intended for a wider audience than myself and close friends and family, it would have been a LOT shorter. And if it had been intended ONLY for me, it might have been longer. But, it is, as they say, what it is. And it doesn't take that long to browse through and linger on the ones you like.
Its now available on Blurb, which I find to be a very convenient publisher/printer, although I know there are others that are probably as good. If anyone is interested in browsing through it, you can hit the "preview" button and leaf through as much or as little as you'd like on your computer screen, although I have to warn you it can look pretty funky if your monitor is either too big or too small. It looks terrible on my 27", but I recall it looked OK on the 21" I had last year. If you have an ipad, you can buy an electronic version of it for $2, which is cheap enough and is, frankly, a much nicer viewing experience. Or, of course you could buy a copy, but I'm not trying to sell them - I don't make any money on them anyway (you can set it up to do that, for any of you pros out there) and the print copies aren't cheap, so I'm NOT trying to sell them. Just suggesting that $2 for the ipad ebook makes for a nicer experience than the preview, unless you have just the right size monitor. Anyway, if interested, here's the link:
2011 - Street Photography by Ray Sachs | Blurb Books
And please, please, please, if anyone else does something similar to this, please add them to this thread. I know not a LOT of people do this kind of self-publishing, but I can't imagine I'm the ONLY one. And I'd surely love to leaf through some other folks books if they make 'em.
-Ray
In the couple of years I've been back into photography, I've found an annual photo-book to be the best modern way of pulling out the best of what you've done and put it into an "album" of sorts. They're very easy to pull off of the shelf or table and leaf through, they're easy to make extra prints of for a few close (and supportive) friends and family members, just a good thing to have. Aside from a very few prints that I seem to make a couple times per year, this is the only time I ever view my photos on paper, rather than on electronic screens.
Anyway, I put my 2011 book together this week (after culling through my photos at a leisurely pace over the past few weeks) and sent it off. The theme, not surprisingly is, street photography, because that's what I most tried to get better at this year - it takes up roughly 2/3 of the book. Last year I only started shooting again in April and my book was 200 pages. This year I got a whole year in so I went to 240. If this was primarily intended for a wider audience than myself and close friends and family, it would have been a LOT shorter. And if it had been intended ONLY for me, it might have been longer. But, it is, as they say, what it is. And it doesn't take that long to browse through and linger on the ones you like.
Its now available on Blurb, which I find to be a very convenient publisher/printer, although I know there are others that are probably as good. If anyone is interested in browsing through it, you can hit the "preview" button and leaf through as much or as little as you'd like on your computer screen, although I have to warn you it can look pretty funky if your monitor is either too big or too small. It looks terrible on my 27", but I recall it looked OK on the 21" I had last year. If you have an ipad, you can buy an electronic version of it for $2, which is cheap enough and is, frankly, a much nicer viewing experience. Or, of course you could buy a copy, but I'm not trying to sell them - I don't make any money on them anyway (you can set it up to do that, for any of you pros out there) and the print copies aren't cheap, so I'm NOT trying to sell them. Just suggesting that $2 for the ipad ebook makes for a nicer experience than the preview, unless you have just the right size monitor. Anyway, if interested, here's the link:
2011 - Street Photography by Ray Sachs | Blurb Books
And please, please, please, if anyone else does something similar to this, please add them to this thread. I know not a LOT of people do this kind of self-publishing, but I can't imagine I'm the ONLY one. And I'd surely love to leaf through some other folks books if they make 'em.
-Ray