I want to be in Boards.ie Potography Book

ThOnda

Following the "Year Book Idea" thread, I would like to ask you to sign up if you would like to be part of the book and to have your picture in the book.

You would get obliged to submit one photo and to buy one book if you sign in.

Counting of the participants will be closed 14. 9. 2008 at 23:59:59. There is always a way how to add another pictures, but the head count is important to estimate size and the price of the book.

Submitting photos will end in October. <--- To be specified later.

Vote, please, to be counted.

TelePaul

What if the pictures suck? Like ALL my pics suck. Would you maybe not be better off with a peer-voted system for choosing entries?

ThOnda

No, thank you.

Well, no. It is opened Book to all Boards.ie members with respect to some basic rules of the society (as well as Boards.ie). And it is everyone's opportunity to post her/his picture.

MagicMarker

No, thank you.

ThOnda wrote: »

Following the "Year Book Idea" thread, I would like to ask you to sign up if you would like to be part of the book and to have your picture in the book.

You would get obliged to submit one photo and to buy one book if you sign in.

Counting of the participants will be closed 14. 9. 2008 at 23:59:59. There is always a way how to add another pictures, but the head count is important to estimate size and the price of the book.

Would you have to submit a photo by the 14th or just make it known that you would like to contribute a photo by that time?

If it's the latter, i'm in.

edit: Screw it, i'm in either way.

ThOnda

No, thank you.

This thread is only for counting participants. I have already edited the first post.
We will decide when to close submitting the photos, but that should be at the end of October.

moralproduction

No, thank you.

count me in please

gandalf

No, thank you.

Yep count me in as well.

sineadw

No, thank you.

Oh I'm so in.

ThOnda

No, thank you.

Please, vote, to be counted. It is the easiest way not to miss anybody by using Vote Results.

thebaz

No, thank you.

yes - just voted yes

Ballyman

No, thank you.

I voted yes.

miju

No, thank you.

im in

PaulieC

No, thank you.

in

l pearse

No, thank you.

100% Count me ln...:p

Perfect fit

No, thank you.

in:)

Dink

No, thank you.

Also in!

mehfesto2

No, thank you.

I'm in! (Once the book doesn't cost more than $50! )

rahtkennades

No, thank you.

+1! (now to find a pic worth printing!)

Mr Dave C

No, thank you.

In like flynn

Eirebear

No, thank you.

I'm in.

Although would it be possible for to ask other boardsies for opinions on which photo to submit?
Im going through a complete confidence crisis at the moment and hate everything i shoot.

Disclaimer- I may ignore all advice boardsies give.

mobileblog

No, thank you.

This sounds interesting. Count me in.

fluffyVW

No, thank you.

I'm in!!! :D:D

irishcrazyhorse

No, thank you.

Im in anyway

kensutz

No, thank you.

I'm in

l pearse

No, thank you.

Eirebear wrote: »

I'm in.

Although would it be possible for to ask other boardsies for opinions on which photo to submit?
Im going through a complete confidence crisis at the moment and hate everything i shoot.

Disclaimer- I may ignore all advice boardsies give.

Eirebear,

Post up ur favourite pics & throw them to the wolfs...:cool:
Does that sound a bit cheeky????

It's what l intend to do...l trust those wolfs for truth & photo honesty.
How elce could one decide? :(

Looking forward to this

Beef

No, thank you.

Why not sher!

Dragan

No, thank you.

Definitely in.

5uspect

No, thank you.

In but worried about what to submitt.

antoswords

No, thank you.

count me in

duffarama

No, thank you.

I'm in, I may need to post some photos to get an idea of what would be good enough though!

Expect a slew of C&C posts in the coming weeks!!

Dodgykeeper

No, thank you.

Im in, What way is this going to work, everybody submits an Image/Images and then a selection Panel/Vote decides which ones make the final cut, will there be text to accompany the pictures?

Hugh_C

No, thank you.

TelePaul wrote: »

What if the pictures suck? Like ALL my pics suck. Would you maybe not be better off with a peer-voted system for choosing entries?

That picture of yours of Gabbi young is so far from suckage it's untrue! Maybe without the border though ...

mikedragon32

No, thank you.

5uspect wrote: »

In but worried about what to submitt.

I may just try and do something just for the book.

Will it be split into categories?

MistressPandora

No, thank you.

I'm in.
Also worried about what to submit, I tend to be highly critical of my work and also tend not to enter competitions because of that!

hefty_langer

No, thank you.

I'm in too!

Kazujo

No, thank you.

Sounds cool I'm in, just need to pick/take something to submit

PJW

I dont think anything I have is good enough and would'nt want to dilute the quility........maybe next years book, thanks.

mdebets

No, thank you.

+1

sheesh

No, thank you.

Ok I'm in. what picture? I have so many fantastic photographs that I will find it very hard to choose one (flicks back luxuriant mane of hair).


anyway back to reality

there are 57 so far mmmm It should be great given the people signed up.

what kind of cost are we looking at.

mike65

No, thank you.

what kind of cost are we looking at.

Indeed, vanity publishing is not cheap! I'm in provisionaly speaking

Mike

sineadw

No, thank you.

Jesus if it keeps growing at this rate we'll be into hundreds! :eek:

Maybe the poll should be closed a little earlier so as to avoid random people signing up? Costs do go up based on how many pages, and I think it'll lose charity appeal if the cost is prohibitive.

Could we maybe set a total page count? It'd be nice for each photographer to have a page each...

PopeBuckfastXVI

No, thank you.

I'd be up for it, but I don't mind dropping out/sharing a page or whatever if the numbers are getting too high

sineadw

No, thank you.

pricing guidelines with Blurb (just as an example...) here

Hugh_C

No, thank you.

sineadw wrote: »

pricing guidelines with Blurb (just as an example...) here

You have to allow for shipping as well Sinead, so add roughly €2 to those prices.

I did a run of thirty six 8x10 hardcover books of 40 pages from blurb which cost US$1,122.92 giving a unit cost of US$31.20 (about €22). The boards book will be probably 40-80 pages in price, therefore dearer. The 7x7 books are lovely but a bit on the small side, 8x10s or 10x8s are better for showing off your work.

We need to cap the number of paid-up entrants, as above 80 will make the book too dear. In fact with an 80 page book you get something like 76 usable pages, not sure but I can check if needs be. The poll is fine to run over 80 though, it's when the chips are down and the money is required that the numbers matter.

Hugh

PopeBuckfastXVI

No, thank you.

Shouldn't it also get cheaper (at a unit level) the more you order though?

So if 80 people are in it, at least 80 will be buying it? Or does that matter?

sineadw

No, thank you.

It'd be cheaper at unit level, but how many do we order? Just the ones we want ourselves? Or do we order more for charity sales?

Its gonna take some working out...

Also - what format? I know the portrait and landscape layouts are nicer than the square, but then you're potentially excluding a lot of people from their first choice of photo as I understand it. I want landscape myself for the photo I have in mind but I'm sure a lot would disagree. So maybe square format is better?

PopeBuckfastXVI

No, thank you.

Wouldn't a square format allow both portrait, landscape & square, while potentially leaving room for a little writing in the whitespace such as

Title
Photographer
Location
Date
Description

or some such?

Hugh_C

No, thank you.

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Wouldn't a square format allow both portrait, landscape & square, while potentially leaving room for a little writing in the whitespace

Yes it would, but, square from Blurb is only 7 x 7 which is smallish. I have printed up both 7x7 and 10x8 and the 10x8s are a lot nicer. Portraits can still be put in landscape books and vice versa, just more whitespace around them.

Sinead, about the number of books, I think each person would have to commit by forking out the requisite amount of cash, so if you think you could sell three books, then pay 3 x the unit cost and sell them yourself for whatever price you can get, and give the balance to charity. In other words put the onus on each individual to sell rather than the group. It's a pretty thankless task ...

On blurb, there's always the possibility of re-ordering more books.

labbad

No, thank you.

Count me in please

TelePaul

Hugh_C wrote: »

That picture of yours of Gabbi young is so far from suckage it's untrue! Maybe without the border though ...

Thanks man! I'm afraid the border thing is here to stay! :eek:

Guys you gotta get as many people involved as possible. I'm pretty sure the unit cost will drop alot more than the increased cost of extra photos - once you hit a given volume. It's a good ol' break-even analysis!

Morrisseeee

No, thank you.

Count me in !