Creating a Photo Book

Creating a Photo Book

Good morning friends. Today’s post is going to be about one of my all time passions, photography. I was recently asked to create a photo book that shows the different rules of photography. I was very excited about this project because I love photography. This was a new challenge for me because until now I have never had to follow rules or direction when dealing with photography.

I selected a broad topic, being candid camera. This enhanced the challenge for me because I don’t normally take pictures of people. I find it harder to capture the right emotion in people than I do in capturing an emotion in nature.

Three different photo shoots were done to ensure a wide enough selection of photography was available to choose from. These shoots happened at Conestoga College, a friend’s house, and Waterloo Park. After enough pictures were gathered, they were narrowed down to the final ten selections. It was decided that the pictures would have more emotion behind them if they were printed in grey scale.

The next stage was to create captions that went along with each of the pictures. A poem was written specifically for this photo book. The poem tells a story about the memory of a trapped individual’s longing for freedom. Each picture does not correlate, but supports the emotion supposed to be felt.

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The final part of this project was to hand create a book to hold the pictures and captions. The cover pages were created using a black and white scheme to complement the grey scale photography. Japanese stitching bound the book together. The captions are printed on white card stock to match the colour scheme of the book, and to ‘pop’ off the black pages.