All the fun of production work… Monday 18th August 2008

Spent the day going through all of the Thames Town edit and adding a few images that are worthwhile and making corrections to the original files to make them ready for the layout.  Replaced the ones I found to be out of focus last week with sharper images from the shoot as well.  Only corrections I am applying are standard darkroom corrections of colour and density and also some perspective cropping where necessary cos I was too much of a gimp to take a stepladder to get high enough to enable keeping the back of the camera straight.  Live and learn I suppose.
Also did a first layout in InDesign to see how what I was seeing in my mind was going to look on paper –inspired by a copy of zing magazine I have on my desk.  For some reason the template Dave gave me has messed up settings somewhere along the line so the images looked off on contrast on the cover and noticed I had messed up some of the colours very slightly by doing too much too quickly and not concentrating.  Not tricky to fix though, only a few minor colour casts in the highlights.  The mock layout was close to what the end result will be but a few of the images will need swapping out.  I will post a version when the images look publishable in this format.
Still think the work is definitely stronger when it focuses on the idea of our relationship with space and so the street views are more to my vision than the detail shots.  If I had more than 10 pages, 3 of which are gone after the cover and text, then maybe I could add them but with laying out 1 image per page I am so restricted in making it just as to the point and atmospheric as possible that I feel 3 sets of diptychs plus one establishing by the next, one closer and a cover will serve the work the best.

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