{"id":85,"date":"2008-03-14T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/post-processing\/photobox-photobook\/2008\/03\/14"},"modified":"2008-07-27T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T17:22:32","slug":"photobox-photobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/post-processing\/photobox-photobook","title":{"rendered":"Photobox photobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really a rant as such.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just got my prints of my Dahab trip back.<\/p>\n<p>I usually get these from PhotoBox, but this time I got some printed up in one  of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photobox.co.uk\/static\/product-photo-book.html\" title=\"Link to Photobox\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoBooks<\/a> (<em>&#8230; they had an \u00a35 off deal running<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really impressed with the quality, even though it&#8217;s not especially cheap <em>(but &#8211; Hey! this is vanity publishing after all !).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It means the best shots are all in one place, and I&#8217;ve got a souvenir of the trip, and also helps me work on my &#8220;editing skills&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean by this is that I typically seem to take about 200 publishable photos in a &#8220;Red Sea week&#8221;.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll normally print the best in 10&#8243;x8&#8243; format (<em>cheap batches start at 20<\/em>) and the rest as 7&#8243;x5&#8243;. Obviously, when these cost pennies, I&#8217;ve not needed to think which were worth printing.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can fill up to 70 pages &#8230; but the medium has different demands.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I need to make sure that only really good images get in; I don&#8217;t want any that will devalue the whole.<\/li>\n<li>Heavily cropped images may share a page<\/li>\n<li>Pick only the best shot of each subject. (<em>Actually, I&#8217;ll break this rule for really good stuff, but split the shots up, so it&#8217;s not too repetitive<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Remember that you can easily get one shot reprinted. It&#8217;s a lot more expensive to reprint a whole bookful of images, so take your time and do it properly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only tricky bit seemed to be that I had to load in IE rather than Firefox, but that might be down to a Flash update needed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried the PhotoBox PhotoBook &#8211; and I&#8217;m impressed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assorted-rants","category-post-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}