Anyone doing SoFoBoMo (Solo Photo Book Month)?

[popstar]

Knowing how this group likes to do various projects such as one camera/one lens, I'm just curious if anyone has tried or is doing the Solo Photo Book Month project. I didn't do it last year, but am kinda intrigued at the idea. Some of the PDFs produced of 2008 material are pretty good.

Just wondering if anyone else is having a go.

More details are here: http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/

[Todd.Hanz]

looks like a cool idea, might try it...

Todd

[popstar]

With your eye Todd you'd probably have one of the better portfolios out there! You should try it if something comes to mind..

[nksyoon]

Have just uploaded mine...

My theme is the 2 rivers that flow through Zurich. I took pictures along the river banks on 5 weekend mornings on Fujifilm 160S and NPH with my Rolleicord and Mamiya 6. You can view the pdf here:

http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/books/nksyoon/mornings/

Or if you prefer a Flickr slideshow:

http://tinyurl.com/nick-flickr-sofobomo

[Matt(1pt4)]

Yep, did it last year, in the middle of it this year. It's a fun a challenge. This is mine from last year: Our Robot Overlords

And here is what I'm working for this year.

Nick, nice book. How did you generate the PDF?

[nksyoon]

I started laying out the book using Blurb's Booksmart software. For the SoFoBoMo upload I made screenshots from Booksmart then combined them into a pdf with Acrobat.

[Matt(1pt4)]

Screenshots, that's clever. I might give that a try.

[nksyoon]

You could also just layout a standard page in Photoshop using guides for placement, and creating new layers for additional pages with different pages. Photoshop can also generate pdfs.

[sojournerphoto]

I'm doing it this year - albeit not very well. I shot in about 2 hours an dneed to put together this weekend. I'm hoping to use open office, which will output files as pdf's I think.

The theme is the back yard and includes pictures by my 7 year old also.

Mike

[petronius]

Uploaded my book yesterday: http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/books/zfelkl/glow/
I used OpenOffice, but it was not funny.

[nksyoon]

Just received my Blurb printed SoFoBoMo book today...very satisfying feeling!

[popstar]

I like the cover shot a lot Nick! Very cool shot!

[sojournerphoto]

I flagged this elsewhere as I lost the thread, but mine's here. Nice to actually finish...

Mike

[sojournerphoto]

Originally Posted by petronius

Uploaded my book yesterday: http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/books/zfelkl/glow/
I used OpenOffice, but it was not funny.

petronius, great stuff. I like it.

I used open office too.

Mike