Document Your Life With A Digital Photo Book
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The digital revolution has bought with it the digital photo book. As a replacement of the traditional photo album, the professional looking personal photo books are doing a good job, offering a new and improved way to present photographs as part of a portfolio. This is ideal for those who work in creative industries, but what about the everyday pictures of family, friends and weeks away on distant sunny shores? We take a look at the options available for making the most of the pictures we take that document our everyday lives.
There is a general rule of thumb within creative circles, whether you are working with oils, acrylic or film, that the mode of presentation gives the medium an aura of importance. Equally, bad presentation can detract from the quality of the presented material. In the art world the mode of presentation is everything if you want your art works to be taken seriously, but in the everyday lives of amateur photographers, could placing too much emphasis on professionalism become a distraction from the subject of the images?
Just because technology is being used more effectively for photographic reproduction, it doesn’t mean that a sense of closeness or connection needs to be lost. Of course there is something homely, and almost antiquated about a photo album full of fading photographs, but it is also representative of an era. Digital technology for presenting digital photos is the step into a new aesthetic where high definition images are best viewed on high definition screens and in digital photo book formats that utilise professional printing techniques.
Digital photo fames are a comfortable compromise between old and new. Everyone has photographs in their home in fancy frames, hanging on walls and standing on bedside tables. Digital photo frames use this format and modify it, creating a mode of presentation that is both familiar and high tech. Everyday snaps of days out, nights on the town, holidays and special events are just as special to the people connected to the images whether they are in a photo frame or album.
It is because of this closeness to an image that is a slice of a personal daily life, that the mode of presentation does not affect the reading of it, unlike images with the intention of being art. A digital photo book is as good as a digital photo frame, and both are a familiar format that has taken advantage of improvements in photographic technology.
Dom Donaldson is a photographic expert.
Find out more about creating a Digital Photo Book online with easy to use software at Cewe Photo World.
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