Last month I had the privilege of photographing a family friend baptize their daughter. I’d never photographed such an event and it was wonderful to be trusted with documenting this special event. In addition to providing my friend and client with the images of the ceremony and following celebration I thought I might surprise them with a little book.
I made this book using Blurb’s Lightroom to Bookify plugin and I found the process smooth and intuitively easy. I usually make books by using Blurb’s downloadable BookSmart software that allows me to build and edit the entire book on my computer before uploading all the images during the “publish” phase of the process. Blurb’s Bookify option allows the author to upload all the images to Blurb and build the book online. There are advantages and drawbacks to each option. The Lightroom Plugin allows the author to upload the images, choose the book size and style, and choose the cover images directly in Lightroom. The advantage here is that I didn’t have to export the images to my hard disk before uploading them to Blurb; everything was handled from within Lightroom on the front end and then the fine tuning edit happened on Blurb’s website.
What I really enjoyed about the process is that the 7×7 format of the small square book format forced me to consider cropping the images in a square format and I really liked how they looked.
So above is the preview of the entire book and I hope it gives you a feel for the event and the celebration. I would love to hear what you think
Just a gorgeous book Brian, lovely job.
Thanks Aim. Glad you like it!
Great job Brian. I’m impressed by the square format you’ve shot everything in. Did you plan to, or was it just something you found fit the square format while you were post processing?
Thanks Charlene. Actually, it was the square format of the book, and one of the page layout presets, that forced me to consider the square crop. So it was quite by accident. Since the book is so small I wanted to fill as much of the page as possible with print, and that forced me to go square. I really like how it came out and I’m glad you do to. Loads of fun to make!