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@@adao7310 you are welcome! Thanks for watching.

@@kelseymatarese good luck!

@@stevetrapped2823 thanks for watching. Hopefully I can get back to making a couple of more photobook videos soon.

@@irinakudres thanks for saying so!

@@ecnivlearsy the photos varied a bit, but most of them were 10-12 megapixels I believe. I did have to upscale one or two.

@@AaronHardinPhoto thank you !

@@crunch65 great! Good luck on the project.

@@xaviegarcia2657 that's great news! Good luck on the new book.

@@user-cp7nn2yi7o always good to hear. This video hasn't gotten very much traffic, so I kinda wondered if it was helpful.

@@ordinary.american.beauty I believe Mixam has a 96 page limit on staple binding. I would suggest a max of 60 pages, as it does impact the bow of the book.

@@AaronHardinPhoto Nice. That’s pretty significant! I really dislike how thick lay flat books can be. But I also don’t like a funky gutter lol..

@@ordinary.american.beauty Saddle stitching with thread is also a nice option, but I don't know if any affordable printers that bind that way.

@@AaronHardinPhoto Hmm okay. Interesting. I can’t wait to use GraphiStudios but I haven’t mastered making a double truck cover in InDesign..

Thanks for the kind words. Ideally, we all win, right?

I'm learning so much from Aaron. He's incredibly generous with his knowledge and distills (see what I did there) it in such a warm and inviting manner. I haven't began sharing any of my work. I still consider myself a beginner and learning. But Aaron makes this space so comfy... he's inspiring me get to it with the sharing... maybe it doesn't have to be a social platform like Insta... this Magcloud option could be a neat starting point for me!

@@csnerd21 thanks you for such kind words. That truly means a lot. We are all on this strange journey through photography, so it's great that you are seeing ways to put your work out there. It's a healthy (and scary) process. Honestly, even putting out a small publication like this makes me nervous.

I'd like to think a lot of it is osmosis if you are looking at good things and contemplating how they work. But I'm not smart enough to do all that in the field. I just try to find something that is interesting to me and hope that it comes out in the edit.

Also (lol), are the NYT editor(s) "seeing" this in the composition? If you wouldn't mind sharing some of the feedback during the progression of the assignment?

@@csnerd21 as for the cropping, I seldom crop photos and if I do it's very minimal. I try to crop while making the photo, but nobody is perfect. But generally I don't crop. As for feedback from editors, it tends to just be which photos they are drawn to. Most of the time the turn around is fairly quick. But with this assignment, it was nice to have a bit more conversation and hear what the editors connected with. Thankfully, most of the editors I work with want to know what photos I prefer.

@@csnerd21 so glad it communicates well! I love teaching, but it is so different doing it in an empty room to a camera. I'll for sure do more of these.

@@AaronHardinPhoto Wondering if you plan on returning to that scene? If so, are you looking to "perfect" the elements in the scene to create a "better" photograph? Could it be part of a project? That 'orange webbing/construction material' presents a before/after view... it goes on and on... I'm just curious as to how you tell "a story"... perhaps with a few photos... of just that scene perhaps?

@@csnerd21 I get bored with things incredibly quickly, so I doubt I'll try to reshoot that photo. It wasn't meant to be part of a greater project, just a photo from my normal life. I tend to make photos with the only purpose of seeing most of the time. As for the storytelling aspect, it always depends on the project and what questions one is trying to raise. Sometimes it's just about creating a world for the viewer to experience. There are hundreds if not thousands of approaches to visual storytelling.

@@glidej thanks for watching. I'm planning on doing more in the near future.

@@ordinary.american.beauty another thing I noticed was if the sun were a bit higher in the sky, it would make that whole shadowy area on the left much more dynamic. But hey, thems the breaks!

@@moodystockholm thanks! I don't have any problem with signs in frames or arrows leading outside the frame, especially at such small sizes. I almost prefer the viewer to imagine what is outside the frame. Great question!

@@mattcurtisdesign it's a great one. Mary Frey is incredible.

@@nicklynch7628 thanks for letting me know. I'll start looking through some images and see if I can find some good candidates.

@@AaronHardinPhotoif you could dig up old images you didn’t know you liked that would be awesome .. you could discover some treasure in your archive and you would also be giving us something special to learn about!!

@@ordinary.american.beauty I really, really need to go back through my digital files and negatives to create a proper catalog. It feels like a mountain of work.

@@AaronHardinPhoto It’s so exciting!! What keeps you from feeling that way? It’s so rich!!

@@ordinary.american.beauty I guess I've never been a fan of my own work 😂. But really it is just my need for organization. I struggle with that part.

Great to hear! I may be a little biased as Robert was my mentor. But I love his work. He has a couple of books from the 1990s called Egypt Time and Another Africa. Both are phenomenal and can be found used.

Glad to help. There are so many ways to go about making a sequence. But this is how I think about it. Good luck on the zine!

Glad it helped! I know everyone has their own method, but this is just what makes sense to me. Thanks for watching.

So glad it was helpful! Happy book making!

So glad it was helpful! I love helping the community make the best work possible.

Hey thanks! Glad it was a little respite from the noise.

Yeah a 600dpi scan might work fine. You can also photograph the prints if you have a decent digital camera.

I have a video on sequencing for a photo book. That might be helpful for finding some order for your photos. It may also help you edit down a bit to be sure the narrative or vision comes through.

Thanks for making such great work!

I'm not familiar with that work. I'll have to look it up! Thanks for the recommendation.

Cool, there are similarities between his work and Mary Frey

It's such a beautiful, tender book. It gave me a view of Ukraine that I'd never seen. I'm thankful to have experienced just a small part of the country through the photos.

It's In Search of the Corn Queen by Greta Pratt. Great book!

@@AaronHardinPhoto Than you very much and best regards, Aaron.

@@anagarci889 you're welcome!

Glad to do so! Always a joy to look at great photobooks.

There definitely isn't a singular way. But this is where I've landed after working through many many photobooks.

There are several more videos in the series and a final flip through of the book. Thanks for watching!

You are very welcome! I have a few recent acquisitions that I hope to do videos on soon.

Thank you!

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