Sunday, June 21, 2026

At Least Once More!

As always, Blurb has been exceedingly helpful in leading me towards publication!

Long story short, I have to reprocess the photos to accommodate the paper used in the spiral / wire-bound book. 

 

For colour images, this is due to something called "out of gamut" ... which essentially means that the printer cannot reliably produce (reproduce) the colour that the digital file calls for. 

And the black-and-white images rendered way too dark (again, despite being significantly adjusted to a lighter/brighter version once already) ... 

The daisy image above is one of my fav's from a recent outing. I had the choice (I suppose I could've done both!) between a yellow adirondack chair in the background, and a red adirondack chair. I thought red would be too obvious and really liked the feel of the yellow. So here it is! What do you think ... was it a good idea to have a similar colour in the background, to the subject? 

I'm trying to actively get out with my camera more often ... sometimes even though the logical mind says "get out there", the heart shrugs with a "whatever" ...

Cheers for now!

Tanya

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Friday, June 5, 2026

Three Disappointments

It took a week longer than necessary for me to receive the third test print of my book thanks to Purolator's refusal to leave the package at our building's front door as instructed directly to the driver on the phone, online via Purolator's website, and via Blurb's support department. 

After two delivery attempts (while I was at work so not available to receive/sign, which I'd warned them about) they handed it off to Canada Post for delivery ... couldn't they have done that in the first instance?!

The second disappointment was the ragged cut of the pages ... the pages of the wire-bound book are uneven resulting in an impossible flip-through. I'll be sending photos to Blurb before I submit my next test print order.

Sadly, the different paper used in the wire-bound production (vs the perfect-bound magazine style) resulted in most of the photographs rendering way too dark! So it will be back to the computer to redo all the post processing.

Perhaps the fourth test print will be perfect?

 

Meanwhile, its the time of year for spring flowers so here are some lovely orange poppies for your enjoyment!

 

Cheers for now!

 

Tanya

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