Second Set of Porch Portraits Showing at the Tennis Gallery

The second of porch portraits from Pine Lake are now hanging in the tennis court on the corner of Lakeshore and Park in Pine Lake.

I began the porch portrait project on April 6, 2020 as folks were beginning to feel the isolation of quarantine. The project was a way for me to stay sane during quarantine and a way to spread a little cheer.

Little did I know when I took the first few photos that the series would result in a book and an outdoor art installation.

Thanks to Mayor Hammet, the city of Pine Lake, the Pine Lake Municipal Arts Council, Digital Arts Studio and the many friends and family who donated to support the outdoor art installation.

If you’d like a book, you can order one directly from the printer here.

Enjoy the show.

Previous posts about the project:

What a Photographer Does When There Are No Weddings

Porch Portraits Surviving Quarantine

More Pine Lake Porch Portraits

Porch Portraits #3

Porch Portrait Book Design

Pine Lake Porch Portrait Book Design

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.