New York Photography Blog - Volume I

The great rush for New York photos is on. It started slowly over the weekend, and now it is in full gear. I have a stack of eight orders; and the phone rings quite often to find out if I am an actual store or not. No, sorry, not a store. I used to have people stop by to look at prints, but it’s too much trouble now. I have to make the place presentable - fold up the futon - sweep up etc. and I don’t feel like it; plus I’ve had a couple of weird birds stop by over the last year - so I’ll stick to the web world where you can imagine that I’m working in a nice store with many sales assistants.

The book is finished, and I have four orders for them. Not a national best seller yet - but who knows.

When the holiday rush is over, I will go back to either the Bronx book (which is sort of a memoir with pictures); or the Morning, Noon, Night book, which is also sort of a memoir with pictures, something about the relationship of what was going on in my daytime job, the walk to work, and how that effected the choice of images.

I do have the book process down though. Lots of little photoshop actions to take care of the repetitive tasks such as increasing canvas size to the full bleed size; putting little frames around the images; and a couple of different curves to brighten the images (mostly) for printing, as well as a Photokit sharpening action that gets them ready for the printer. I’ve been using inDesign for the layout. But after that it’s just a matter of uploading the jpgs to SharedInk (yes, I have definitely settled on them for quality and support reasons); and then arranging them online at SharedInk. So in essence, the text stuff is done with inDesign; and the pictures are placed in inDesign for layout purposes.