Alright /p/
I would like to make a photo book of images I have taken on one of my trips.
I've never made a photo book before. Also I live in Australia if that affects services.
What I'm after is advice and tips if you have them. Figured I could get some unbiased advice here.
Such things as:
Book size, image size, number of pages/images, how much text/details, cover image, well to sell online if I decide to/marketing such as fb advertising etc.
All that type of thing.
How do I into successful (relatively) photobook?
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look at the canon website? They have printing options but they may be more suitable for individual books not in bulks to sell.
Also, post a couple photos here, I wanna give a look :)
Dunno why I came here.
Show some photos.
>>2746743
How many are you planning on making?
How much are you planning on selling them for?
Who do you plan to sell them to?
How/where do you plan on selling them?
My best advice would be, if you are planning on selling these, to try and put together some kind of event. Or events.
See if you can find a gallery to do a showing at.
Maybe a local bookstore to do a book signing.
Try and collaborate with other artists and photographers. That way the people they know can find out about you work and the people you know can find out about theirs.
Finally, if you do plan on selling these books online, I recommend printing off business cards with the web address of where you can purchase the book.
I've made 3 through Blurb feel free to preview them.
http://www.blurb.com/books/6510626-life-on-mars
http://www.blurb.com/books/6471428-democratic-people-republic-of-korea-in-black-and-w
http://www.blurb.com/books/6464943-japan-a-look-at-life-through-a-lens-2015
>>2746817
not OP but I was also thinking about making a book of my last trip, just as a memorabilia. How is the print quality with blurb?
>>2746817
Your titles are awful and you need to edit them down because they're too expensive/you're not anyone special enough for somebody to pay for your b-sides too.
Your good stuff is pretty good tho
>>2746834
Quality is pretty acceptable for the price.
There are common issues with color fidelity - it's all over the place (black and white is blue here magenta there).
>>2746846
i made them for myself.
>>2746817
>All pictures are shot using a Ricoh GR
holy fuck, i dont have pepe images, but id put the smuggest pepe for that paragraph.
>gearfagging in your own fucking photobook
top kek
>>2746817
Man, this makes me want to visit the DPRK so bad.
I'm gonna start making 1 at the end of every year to document my life with the best of my film work. I'm set on using artifact uprising.
>>2746834
>How is the print quality with blurb?
>>2746846
>Quality is pretty acceptable for the price.
I've always found Blurb's photo books to be fairly disappointing in terms of quality when considering the price. Their trade book service is better (lower quality, but much more reasonable considering price).
For decent quality photo book stuff I've started using epubli, but as we found out in the current /p/ book thread they don't deliver to as many countries as Blurb do.
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>>2746817
what did you use to make the book itself? InDesign? Or that Bookwright thing?
>>2748929
can I ask you what you used to make those books? epubli doesn't seem to have its own tool to make some so I'd have to use something else. Did you use the Lightroom feature or something similar?
>>2746817
Holy shit niqqa, take another front on photo of a shrine or statue why dont you?
>>2748953
I use InDesign, it's not hard at all if you just need something simple.
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>>2749004
>implying you've done anything better
>>2746971
Have you never owned a photo book? Most photographers mention the camera used somewhere although it is more common with large format shooters.
>>2749797
>Most photographers mention the camera used somewhere
LOL
thanks for the laughs, /p/.
