The Book-Album for Storing and Showing Your Photographs

March 22, 2011 ·

Mark Segal

Between the Shoe-box and the Portfolio Box
By: Mark D. Segal

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My photographic output from the Luminous-Landscape China Workshop brought to the fore once again the beauty and practicality of a solution I developed six years ago for storing and showing photographs. In this case, what do you do with 730 letter-size prints? A bit much for the shoe box and quite a few portfolio boxes with many individual sheets of paper to keep intact and in order. Good quality conventional photo albums are both expensive and very time-consuming to prepare (layouts and paste-downs for 730 images?). They can be bulky and consume a lot of space.

Hence, considering all this in the context of a large Egypt photo-shoot back in 2000, I developed my own version of a "book-album". Both the concept and the implementation are very simple: print the pictures according to how they should look in final presentation (i.e. fin...

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Mark Segal

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.