Blurb

To create my book I am going to use the website Blurb again as I did for my previous book. Blurb is a website which can be used to help photographers to create, self publish and share their photo book design.  I found this website very useful because it allows me to have more control over the design and layout of my book through using light room I can continue to make amendments to my photographs whilst creating my book. I was also happy with my final book because it was printed in good quality. Once I have finished I can then upload my book to Blurb and order it.

Photo book inspiration

When making the book I didn’t have any main book inspiration which influenced the way which I created the layout, however I tried to make the book similar to my first book by including similar photographs and a similar structure. When creating the first my book my inspiration was ‘Where Mimosa Bloom by Rita Puig – Serra Costa’. l liked how for every portrait of her family members, on the other side there is an object although their is no explanation I assumed there is a connection between the item and the person in the portrait. Often the person in the portrait is wearing the same colour or the photograph included the same colour as the colour of their object this worked well and also made it appealing to the eye. Although it was not planned there is a recurring theme of stripes in my book. When creating my book I also tried to place photographs of similar colours together.  In my book included objects that belong to my dad and close ups of what was happening in the main photograph on the other side of the page.