An analog and film centric RU-vid community that dive into the inner workings of what it looks like to be a creative visual artist. We dive into the how to's of building projects, making zines, selling prints and breaking into the fine art world of exhibitions and sales. We have weekly conversations about what it means to think intently about our work, to push ourselves to new levels photographically, and ways to "make it" and get discovered along the way.
I am simply the host of a great and wonderful conversation here on the channel. The channel is more about the wonderful community we have, and helping you guys hit your photographic and artistic goals.
I love your zine! I just made my first one It’s called ONEOFONE and completely homemade on my monochrome laser printer. Your’s is professionally printed isn’t it? Anyway lovely work!
@@Compliment_Thief thanks so much for the kind words. Congratulations on your first zine!! What an accomplishment. Especially hand made! Yes I did have mine printed professionally.
I wish I found your page two books ago! I'm working on my third hummingbird book and this time i'm doing it in InDesign. you are correct so much easier i can't believe what i put myself through in photoshop! i know it's six years later but i hope you can help. i photograph a lot of hummingbirds perched on branches. when i am doing full spreads i learned today by watching your video to copy and paste the image and bring each image to the center of the each side of the page. i did notice when I previewed the page it was white but when i exported it showed. so i am not making those modifications. but here is the question, is InDesign smart as in the branches will align properly when printed as it shows on the screen? when i hit "w" preview mode it looks perfect. in your printing experience with gutters do i need to adjust my images to ensure the branches continue flawlessly from one page to the next?
@@3196453 the depth of field is so shallow with the macro lens that it needs to be manually focused each frame to get critical focus. If it was a brighter light table I could lower the iso, close the aperture down. But because you’re supplying ample light you would be surprised at how little artifacting you get at 1600 to 3200
what you did on @31:35 is only for pictures that take the whole spread 9and bleed?)? or shall I do this also on picture that are positioned on a spread but don't necessarily take up all the spread?
@@julienakazi9336 That is for images that cross into both pages across the spread. Newer InDesign versions may have a better way of doing that now. I’m not certain
@@nezbulkanal it’s been years since the project so I can’t tell you for certain. I know I asked for a satin finish paper and the print shop helped me find the right paper.
I want to buy titanium cover for Leica CL... i saw it in real life. It look amazing but hartd to find it.... even person who own it said that it was custom... PS: sorry for my english... still learning.
What other tool or service can you use to make a zine that doesn't seem to have as steep of a learning curve and can accomplish the same flexibility in layouts?
Video @ 2:10 "he just turns things around so fast" - Yeah, and any skilled technician can tell - The Leica trained true-techs like Don @ DAG, Gus @ TLC Camera Repair and Sherry at Golden Touch, ALL state that the Leica owners who know & expect Rolls Royce quality, eventually end up sending their REDO Youxin Ye cameras to these true USA technicians for correction & proper sanitizing...
I particularly liked the first photograph of the street sign shadow bending around the corner of a building. I JUST got my dad to part with his CL that he got in 1976. I’m looking forward to putting some film through it.
How wonderful! I’m sure you will enjoy it. If I were to make the video again today I would take a more pleased route toward the CL. It really is a great camera.
The company I went through for printing was able to die cut the rounded corners. The cover design was done in photoshop if I remember correctly. It’s been a while. Glad you found the video helpful
I meter by eye not off the meter in the camera, so I can manipulate exposure to be consistent with 1600 iso rather than 400 iso. Gives me faster shutter speed and more depth of field to work with. Plus the contrast and grain addition that comes when pushing film stocks. All of which is to my visual preference. Hope that helps.
If you hit your focus correctly it wont matter if youre at f4 or f22 the plane of film will not be any more in focus either way. You can expand that focus plane as much as you want and it wont change anything with the film strip being so thin.
@@zarrir definitely depends on the lens. Ideally yes get a bright enough light table and scan at f8-f16 to utilize the full capacity of the optics you are working with. With my setup at f4-f5.6 I don’t notice any issues at the edges.
Nick, I think you are sharing some very powerful information and beautiful ethical leadership. Thank you for your wonderful communication skills and you’re down to earth way of being.
Current wait time is about 5 months. If the customer doesn't wish to wait, he will do an expedited service with turnaround less than one week, but the expedited fee is at a 30% premium.
I will do whatever the hell I want, if I find a mint Nikon F2 and purchase it with my money, take it out to the back yard and smash it with a hammer,, Thats my business !
What can I say, I like to hear myself talk. Thanks for enduring the the video. Hopefully you found helpful info among the torrent of fluff and prattle. Cheers
Thank you for the video! I'm thinking about buying a bulk loader but can''t decide between Lloyd's and AP device. The letter one is more expensive, but people say it's less fragile.
I tried lookiing at my local printing places in the capital region of New York to have my zines printed and the prices were outrageous!!! I would have had to charge $100 for a zine, that's ridiculous....So I went with Blurb and Magcloud because their prices were much lower than what I had around here.....
@@RobertCooperTheGallery when going through print shops always ask for a stable bound booklet. Zine language tends to up the charge despite them being the same thing.
I do have a playlist on the channel entitled how to sell your photography that should help out a bit. It was geared toward selling prints, but the concepts apply just the same to zines. Hope that helps
Mines came back from Leica repair in no with scratches and the cap and hood messed up unusable so the manager won’t call me back when I called back when I sent photos of the damages BUTT when I finally threaten to call Leica Germany he contacted immediately ,lol,lol
The scans look nice, but it would have been really interesting to know how you developped it, and to see the negatives, and even better, some prints :) EDIT: just realized you had another video explaining how you exposed and developed (but still no negs or prints ^^)
Limited darkroom accessibility in a small apartment meant I had to save my darkroom time for my exhibition work. Fair point on showing the negatives. Thanks for the input
@@NickExposed not saying this to be a film snob BTW. I don't think everyone wants to wet print and it's fine. In the darkroom, negatives don't lie ahah.
For my first zine I used a satin finish paper. Not sure the weight of it at this point it’s been many years. For my second zine I had them use just standard copy paper to go with the overall intent of the zine to look like a notebook. Hope that helps.
If you are doing just staple bound they make booklet staplers that would work well with 17 sheets. Otherwise, if you are truly stitching then getting some good leatherworking stitching tools would set you up well. They don't have to be expensive, just proper tools. Find a heavy gauge thread in the color you like and experiment with a couple different stitching patterns to see which one suits your project best. A video like this could help you out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aWHkY5jOoqM.html
Love these tips Nick !!! As for print shops people some examples are FedEx Office, The UPS Store, Staples, Office Depot, Office Max…I know for sure The UPS Store and FedEx Office can do it ….. every place that can print your stuff may not necessarily have “print shop” in the name.
Hey Reuben, it should all still be very relevant. Finding a local shop and asking for a small run of staple-bound booklets should still be the cheapest way to go 80% of the time. Plus, it has extra benefits like print proofs, connection to the employees, no shipping fees, etc. Hope that helps
