Planning Your Photo Book Layout Puts You in Control
As a photographer, you have plenty of control behind the camera: you’re able to stage the shot, you’re able to control the lighting and work with what you have. During after processing, you’re able to tweak the way colors come out, the way that a shot is cropped.
Unfortunately, when it comes to displaying your work, some photographers find themselves limited. There’s been a sense that, sure, you can put your shot in a frame and hang it on the wall. You can be creative in the way you print out digital work. You can choose where you display your work (at least when it’s in your home or in your studio), but often photographers don’t really feel in control of showing their work.
Printed photo books offer different ways of displaying your work. The way that you layout your photo book gives you control over the way that you show your work.
You’ll be able to choose to use a full page shot, to add layers, to crop or not to crop. You’ll be able to add text to some pages and not to others. Your photo book layout is something that you alone control: you’ll be able to look at your photos, listen to the way that they “speak” and display them in the way that they want to be displayed.
With a photo book, you’ll be able to use your photos to tell a story: each shot will be more than just one shot, it will show itself as part of a whole.
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