Hardcover
I went through all the photos that we took in New York and thanks to the wonder of iPhoto, created a hardcover book of all the best ones that turned up today. And it turned out really, really well.
The problem with these books is that when you’re looking at a photo on a bright LCD it’s hard to imagine what it’s going to look like when it’s printed onto paper. Which means that a lot of the time you get a book printed they end up looking a lot darker than you expect them to be. Knowing this in advance you try and compensate for it, brightening up your photos or artificially increasing their exposure so that they’ll turn out OK. But by doing this, you make them look like crap on screen without ever knowing what effect it’s going to have at the end. It’s a sticky situation to be in.
Thankfully it looks like I made a reasonably good guess at what was going to work, as the majority of them turned out pretty well. There’s a couple that are still a bit dark, but only ones that were so dark to start off with I should be happy I managed to massage them into any kind of usable state.
