The Photographer’s Sketchbook – Camera Settings

I’ve started illustration work for The Photographer’s Sketchbook. 

This project originated years ago and was originally called The Photographer’s Notebook. It’s a text for my photography students to target exactly what I want them to know and spare them from spending exorbitant amounts of money on textbooks.

At this point in my own creative life I feel like I’ve piled up enough pictures to be able to find examples for all the teaching points I need to cover. And if not, I can always shoot more.

My current plan is to use InDesign to create a PDF that closely matches traditional paper textbooks, though the target platform is likely to be online or e-reader presentation.

We shall see.

This particular illustration is for the “Captions Explained” section, which teaches students how to understand the information in the captions that accompany all the photos in the text. Captions will also have links to information on the camera and lens I used for each picture.

The Legrasse Estate – Day Two

Today wasn’t as stellar as yesterday. Monday brought more demands on my time. And I admit to spending an hour and a half or so just listening to angry music to help work out some of my anxiety about the election.

I did still manage a burst in the evening. Chapter Two is well underway. The business with the estate lawyer is concluded, and our heroes have arrived at Point Poulpe. If that means nothing to you right now, it will make more sense when you read the book.

The Legrasse Estate - Day One

Novel Rhino is off to a good start, thanks in no small part to the extra hour from the end of Daylight Saving Time.

Throughout the project I intend to maintain past practice of not dwelling excessively on stats (at least not here in the blog). But I managed to finish the first chapter of the book, which took me slightly over 4000 words into the project. Looking back at previous projects, I note that I typically start with an above average day at the outset. But this one surpasses them all by a substantial margin.

I intend for the plot structure to follow the strategy from the original Poltergeist: start slow and suburban, and then start mixing in the horror. Thus today’s text didn’t include a lot of shambling or gibbering. But at least it hung a few rifles on the wall.