Got mine about a week ago, and as someone who ran a prepress color house for a decade, it looks amazing. The zine itself is very well produced - what you would expect from a commercial printer, and obviously the photography is outstanding. Great job with everything.
Hi Nick My Zine just popped through the letter box having crossed America and the pond to NW England. Arrived on my birthday 9/15, most propitious! What a lovely start to the day. Looks amazing and now I can look at your pictures on the wall while relaxing with the new ones in the zine. Wishing you the best for your solo exhibition. Mark
As a graphic designer/prepress specialist for a commercial printer, I can't tell you how helpful it is when clients come in and want to know what they can do to make things go smoothly. Truly made me happy to hear you talk about binding styles, RGB vs CMYK and the importance of bleed. The books look terrific!!
As a retired (sort of) UK graphic designer and photographer of some 40 years experience, your account and workflow of how to layout your zines in InDesign and allow for the smaller colour gamut of commecial CMYK print is spot on. Since finding your channel I have been binge-watching your shoots and tutorials with great interest and amusement. Fabulous work from a perfectionist of both process and creativity. I hope you factored in those few days of signing and packing, not to mention all the other cost of time, materials and fuel etc!
Nick, Yesterday I received and excitedly opened my copy of your SIGNED ! zine. Absolutely love the images and will enjoy revisiting the video with the book in hand. Your work has been a real inspiration for me (even better than Crewdson, whose work is too contrived for me) as I begin focusing less on typical landscapes. I noticed something though: there is repetition in some of the subjects. I received a valuable message from this and that is "Work the Scene." Try different angles, different views, different lighting. Stay longer. Thanks for all your effort producing this book and sharing tips for us to try our own.
I'm always amazed at his skills when he is on location--he is working on taking photos and making an outstanding presentation as well as making a video for distribution all by himself! This is not easy to do.
Hi Nick, as a photographer on a small scale looking for ways to expand their options, it's always great to see the numbers, plus time and effort! A lot of people like the pictures, but don't consider the time and effort put into the project. I like your style! Thanks again. :-))
I can say that you not only have good taste as a photographer but also for rum... Ron Diplomatico one of our Venezuelan elixirs of rum! Salud Hermano! Nice Vid!
Hello Nick. Received my copy of your "Outstanding" Zine today. I will cherish this copy ,from a famous RU-vidr. Great work, your an inspiration, to this old photographer . Thanks. KB
So so happy to have received the zine! It looks stunning. Every detail as you describe so very well in the video looks and feels amazing. After this video I appreciate it even more! Best, Rafael - the Netherlands
Got mine in the UK in perfect condition and (like the video series) it's fabulous. It's great to see how you put all this together and your commitment to the perfect product is inspiring. Thanks Nick!
I got the zine a couple days ago and the quality is seriously impressive. I was inspecting every inch of it and was blown away. You did a fantastic job with the scans, editing, and everything. And the printer did a fantastic job as well! I'm taking notes for my own zine!
Great video! I've been in publishing industry and working with printers for over 3 decades, and your video was a great overview of how it all happens. Super job!!!
Great breakdown! But before people do the math and think that you made about $7,100 in “profit”, there’s more to the story. You didn’t seem to include the cost of labels, ink and printing for the envelope seals nor the address labels. There’s also the cost of gas driving back and forth to your print house and shipper. The big one is labour. Even ignoring the time it took to take the images and do the original edits of the photos, there was the zine layout, resizing, conversion, tweaking, interacting with the print house, checking proofs, marketing, managing the orders, completing customs forms, printing labels, signing books, stuffing and labelling envelopes, taking it all to the shipping place and managing any shipping issues. This is something you do as a labour of love, not to get rich. Great work!
Hey Nick, after I watched your video Saturday morning, a couple hours later, the mail arrived, and I instantly recognized the packaging for the zine. Perfect timing! I love the zine, and the photographs are stunning.
The zine surpasses any expectations - your 'nick-picking' the details certainly pays dividends. Been rewatching and re-enjoying the videos since receiving the zine. Fun all over and all the way around. Thanks for your time and effort.
Watching this video makes holding the zine after watching the EP even more special! Well done on a job well done! Certainly gives me some more inspiration to make my first zine and I look forward to what you produce in your next EP.
Your video popped up in my feed rather randomly, and I’m so glad it did! I’m only an armature photographer, and have no plans for a ‘zine, (tho I’m gonna buy yours when I can!) but the quality of your video is fantastic, and very inspiring!
It would make the envelope a bit heavier but i think you should put another cardboard in front of the zine too. To protect the cover from extra wear and tear...
Excellent video on how you setup the zine in the InDesign software. Thanks for the specs on paper etc...Heading to Zion in October and am pre-visualizing a zine already ...may take the 6x17 back for my 4x5.....Craig
Zine looks great...and THANK YOU for a video like this. It certainly gives those of us out there considering this a leg up on what all it really involves if you want to do it right!! Quick question: The hurricane that hit out west, that didn't cause any problems for your upcoming exhibition coming on the 15th did it? That place you are having it at, if I recall...was very close to a cliff...hoping nothing happened to the venue!!! Good luck and thank you, CC
Thank you Nick! I haven’t received mine yet but I can’t wait to get it. There is something magical about holding something tangible that someone created and put their soul into:
Hello. Yes! Converting an image from RGB to CMYK is a tricky thing. On the one hand, the RGB gamut is larger than the CMYK gamut, and on the other hand, it is important to know that RGB is additive color mixing (adding values creates a lighter to white light - max. 255, 255, 255) and CMYK is subtractive color mixing (adding values in colors creates dark to black stain on paper - max. 100, 100, 100, 100%). RGB is in the monitor, TV, or display - the image surface is illuminated. CMYK is on paper, metal, wood, etc. Can't shine through. It's like mixing colors with a brush on paper, canvas. The conversion to the CMYK profile in Photoshop is important so that we can see a "simulation" on the monitor of what it will look like in composite CMYK color on paper. Therefore, the colors are not as bright as the RGB profile - the monitor simulates a sample of how the image will look on the mat without backlight. It also depends on the exact CMYK profile I convert the photo to. An important factor is the printing inks used, the increase in the print dot of the given machine, the type of paper according to the standard (glossy, semi-glossy, matte) and how much ink it absorbs during printing. - this profile will tell you the printer where you will print. Nick, thank you very much for this video showing the hard work of commercial offset printing by a home printer in a small print run.
Thank you for doing a second run, I missed out on it originally. also great choice of Rum, however I'm not sure how much work I'd get done sipping Diplomatico
Being a photographer, it's one of my biggest dreams to create and sell my own zines. Only being 3ish years into photography, being 22 and having no audience, I can't see that happening any time soon
Well done! Excellent quality and great insights of the process. I can feel the pain of signing all those zines. I did a small run of 50 and hand cramps set in by the end though I did address the envelopes by hand too 😁
Loved my copy of the zine! Informative discussion of the production, great job! I’m looking forward to your next project. Best of luck with your coming exhibit!
Zine ordered! I don't know why I didn't order one on the first run--I've only been watching this channel for years and love the photographic style and the storytelling. The EP was terrific and the zine looks super awesome--thanks for doing a second run😀😀 BTW, really loved the signing sequence and musical accompaniment on this video.👍👍😎😎
I received my zine about a week ago, which is pretty fast if you factor in international shipping. I like it very much, thanks for making it. Also thanks for being so open and showing your whole calculation, this is interesting. I think your hourly rate is not very high in the end.
Please make a new zine every week!!! I'm kidding, that looks like a lot of repetitive work, especially the signing process gave me carpal tunnel syndrome. Thanks for making a video showing part of the process. The zines look amazing!
I’m not sure what export options your printers uses, but if your exporting as a PDFx1 this converts any Adobe RGB images into a CMYK colourspace, therefore saving a lot of time in having to manually convert every single image. Furthermore you can soft soft proof your images in InDesign too so you can preview how the printed colourspace will look.
@@chico11mbityou can soft proof images in Photoshop without converting them to the desired CMYK colour space. If there is something off then you can catch it in the soft proof, saving considerable time in having to convert each and every image to CMYK, which is what a PDFx1 output does regardless
The clerk at the post office probably was very happy with you 😅😂 That thought just came to my mind considering the not always so good experience with costumer service at the post office. But regardless, so happy for you with this successful zine run.
