Create Your Own Coffee Table Books
When you walk into your local bookstore and take a look at the photography section, you’re going o find two things. First, there are the primers – books that tell you all about what you can do to enhance your digital photos, books meant to help you learn more about lighting or about f-stops or about photographic techniques (in other words, books that you would look at if you wanted to see what information was out there and why some of the novice camera-junkies in your lift couldn’t realy understand why you use a light tent when you shoot macros). And then you’re going to find the coffee table books.
It’s the coffee table books that are really going to grab your attention – and not just the collections of Ansel Adams black and whites either. You’ll look at those books that collect the fashion photography related to a particular designer. You’ll look at the collections of portraits, of advertising photography and of landscapes that show the photographer really did know the right time and the right place to capture a dream shot.
Coffee table books tend to get us photographers thinking about publication, but we all know that there’s a catch: it’s hard to get published. There’s a secret though – and that secret is that it doesn’t have to be. Self-publishing is always an option and printed photo books that are made with a professional quality and your own attention to detail make creating your own coffee table books a simple and effective way of showing off your best work.
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