I've been in the fortunate position to create one of those coffee table photo books for myself. (I will review the process of creating such a book at some other time). When I started off, I was quite convinced that I will need to add quite a number of pages to the book to make space for all my good photos. This turned out to be quite a misconception on my side. Selecting enough photos to fill 36 30cm x 30cm pages with your own photos is not as easy as one would expect!
The nice thing about this exercise was that I had to find the time to look at my digital archive of the pas 9 years. Eventually I decided to stick to the new millennium, and as a result I decided to name the book "Phosgraphis - Painting with light (and manipulating a few pixels) 2000 - 2007".
This photo, called "The Fence" was taken about 3 years ago on a photographic weekend trip together with some of my local photo club friends. I used a very shallow depth of field (F5.6) and focus on the fence to throw the sheep in the background totally out of focus, with just enough detail to recognized their shapes.
The nice thing about this exercise was that I had to find the time to look at my digital archive of the pas 9 years. Eventually I decided to stick to the new millennium, and as a result I decided to name the book "Phosgraphis - Painting with light (and manipulating a few pixels) 2000 - 2007".
This photo, called "The Fence" was taken about 3 years ago on a photographic weekend trip together with some of my local photo club friends. I used a very shallow depth of field (F5.6) and focus on the fence to throw the sheep in the background totally out of focus, with just enough detail to recognized their shapes.
