It has been quite surprisingly intense. I didn't think it would be this tough at the start. Portrait photography always does leave me tired, so I suppose that I shouldn't be too surprised to be exhausted after committing to a book of portraits in a month. It probably didn't help that I was struggling with
man flu for the last 3 weeks either. Still, I've been surprised just how much really goes in to doing something like this, passably well. The shooting was only half the battle. Editing, finishing and laying out the pages took just as long.
But the good news is - I finished the final layouts last night. It is done. All that is left is some proof reading and checking. I might still tweak some layout pieces and maybe get rid of one spread (I'm around 82 pages/sides - might drop it down to 80 sides, just to round it out). I still have a bit of work to do in creating the final PDF version and then also soft proofing and adjusting for a print version but that is all quite minor. I'm also playing around with using
http://www.issuu.com for an online viewable book version. That will be yet another layout that needs to be done with a different number of pages.
Then all that is left is the anxiety of showing it to people. Nobody has seen it yet. That changes this evening.
I don't think I could take four times a year. I'm exhausted by just one attempt. Strung out, tired, burned out and ready to put my camera away for a few weeks. Or at least avoid shooting people for a while.
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Gordon, I'm feeling a bit of the burn myself. I certainly wouldn't want to do this 4x in a year. No way! Unless, of course, it just happened that way where I was so inspired as to crank out 4 books, each taking about 2 months, with a one month rest in between. :-)
It has taken a lot of energy, to be sure, but I think that it was time well spent.
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