earlyadopter's Posts

As far as I understand in the U.S. you’re a professional if you’re paying taxes from your photography income and the largest part of your income comes from the photography activities.

In other parts of the world I’ve noticed people using the world "professional" for everyone taking pictures which are in focus and with a bit of creativity.

Having a business card where you call yourself a photographer also helps in this case. :)

> I work from original greyscale files, convert them to duotone, then convert them to sRGB before bringing them into booksmart

So, does this path helps?

Or no matter what – you can’t get black and white which looks (as normal B&W books in a bookstore) black and white, not dark-purple-light?

First you need to think of is WHO might want to sue you for copyrights violation, and WHY. It doesn’t work automatically <del>- somebody need to have enough reasons to go to court and do that (which means initial legal expenses on their side).  And unless you made a lot of money with your book (which I don’t think is a case if you’re self-publishing few copies here), the only case somebody might want to persecute you is if you are extremely wealthy. But if this is a case you might already have lawyer(s) taking care of you -</del> so ask them. My expectation <del>- they’ll suggest you to use a corporation registered for this particualr project (so no personal liability) as a publisher, and then the only action against you really possible even if somebody will actually sue you, will be to stop selling the book with images they claim you don’t have permission to use. <a href="http://www.delawareintercorp.com/cost.htm">Cost of registering a corporation in Delawre</a> is comparable to cost of pringing few books here. By the way, you may close this corporation after you’re done with this (so no annual fee to support its’ existance, but also -</del> no way to print more copies defended by that corp name).

Nobody really cares about language of the content <del>- it’s images people see. I don’t use text explaining individual images. I consider image which could not be understood without text a failed one.

There might be introduction text on several languages. Phaidon books for example often have introduction in few languages. But the "plates" part is universal.

With the cover -</del> it’s all different story. You need it on a local language wherever you market the book.

Don’t have an answer. Just want to add my black-and-white turned out purple too. :(
Very disappointing.
I’d even be OK with a little sepia if pure black and white is not available, but purple… too bad.