Spent Friday and Saturday on short trips to nearby Nagahama and Hikone and finishing up class work including the construction of a photo book - from scratch!
Basically, we selected 6 photos that were printed on a 6 x 24-inch piece of photo matte paper that was sized and marked to be folded up accordion-style and then bound between two thick cardboard covers that were covered by textured/colored paper of our choice. Sounds pretty simple but it takes more care and attention to detail than what you might expect. I put together my first book, but wasn't happy with how it came out - the second attempt was much better - almost have to go through the process to get the method down.
The remainder of the weekend was mostly dedicated to clean-up and packing with a few last photos and work to put our photo portfolios together for online display. I recently posted mine and it's at:
http://stu.wccnet.edu/~miquigley/Japan2010/index.html
We will also be making large prints of select photos for a formal exhibit later this summer, so please stay tuned.
Thanks all for following this blog. Wish I had more time to include more detail, but things were sooo... busy the during entire trip. Look forward to telling you more about it firsthand in the future!
take care,
MQ
