tech info

[Pherdinand]

sure - and, actually i think the site('s creator) deserves to be mentioned - whether he likes it or not 😀

 

[RML]

That frame_&_patch would look good on a black background.
I'm not too keen on the way it looks on white.

Maybe we can have 1 photo on the cover (one of Jorge's photos?) with the frame_&_patch overlaid on it, like the view through a real VF.
Or is that the idea all along? 🙂

 

[back alley]

book title on front cover and a thank you to rff and jorge in the preface?
i like that idea.

joe

 

[peter_n]

I voted for tech info in the back because I would like to see text about the photo only on the opposite page. Some pictures tell their own story and some will need a little bit of context setting.

Personally I find the technical details distracting unless there is something about the photo that makes me want to know: hmmm - what was the exposure or what was the lens?

 

[Rich Silfver]

10:9 ... seems like a very divided issue

 

[rover]

It may be late for me to ask this question, but let's clearify. Are we talking about just the tech info, or all words in the book? There is a lot to keep up with and it is going fast. So, in the body of the book we will have the photos, will they be accompanied by a description, and are we only voting on where the tech info should go, or where that description will be too?

 

[Rich Silfver]

Rover the options are pretty simple:

On the left page when you go through the book there will some word that relate to the photo on the right page.

The question here is only if;
a) Should we on the left page ALSO spell out the technical information (in addion to the description of the photo), or
b) Should we just have the text on the left page be about the photo and save all technical details for an index in the back.

Some samples of what a and b could look like here: http://www.pbase.com/rsilfverberg/text_samples

 

[rover]

that is what I though and how I voted.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

My vote is for the back of the book for tech info. I think the words should tell the story or spirit in which the photo was taken. Then if there is a photo that you really like you can look it up in the back and find out if you need to buy a Lecia to produce that type of image or if your $5 junk store camera is good enough if you have the vision.

Wayne

 

[GeneW]

Although I prefer the tech info on the opposite page, if we decide to go with back-of-book, one option would be to combine the tech info with our short bios -- i.e., you look up the tech info by photographer ...

I'm not sure a traditional index would work for this purpose.

Another $0.02 ...

Gene

 

[Rich Silfver]

12:13 - could you guys have made it any harder... 🙂

 

[back alley]

read the posts, someone changed their mind.

 

[modsoul]

I'm with Gene that we can have an photo index including the photographers' profiles or short biography.

Max

 

[RML]

Gene's compromise sounds good: story with the photo, tech info with the photog's bio in the back.

 

[peter_n]

I like that too...