Designing a book of photographs is rather daunting.

First you have to choose the photos to include. Then decide how to incorporate that text that goes with the photos. In the book of porch portraits I’m working on, some have just a little text and others quite a bit more. So then I have to decide if I should design pages with smaller photos and more text, or spread a single photo across two pages with text. And, of course, that affects the number of pages.

How many pages should I include in the book? If I include more, I’ll have to charge more. But the, will an extra $5.00 or so really make a difference in the number of books I sell?

So many questions.

Besides designing the book, I need to make sure everyone in the photos will be happy to be included in a published book. So, I’ll be sending a lot of email over the next week or so asking folks to sign model releases

It’s a lot of work, but I think it’ll be worth it in the end.