Every time I watch one of your videos it’s like I’m baptized and cleansed of all the social crap that I waded though the last week or two. Thoroughly enjoyed this.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Hey, give yourself a star for wading through it. I can't handle it.
@davidedwards34322 жыл бұрын
....so experienced and well grounded. We all need a dose of this, in my case, on a regular basis....thank you so much.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Perspective.....
@davidedwards34322 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 ...always...
@WatchesAndPhotography2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for speaking your truth, and sharing your knowledge among a sea of time-wasting KZbin content Mr. Milnor. And for the sobering reality check. It is a breath of fresh air in this age of social media blabbering.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I guess when you don't have a con it's easier to just talk about what really happens in the world. I actually feel bad for KZbin folks who are obviously living a phony life for views. At some point that tends to blow apart, as does their life.
@hugoparente19082 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic "content". Thanks. I review my thoughts on the subject in the same way. In the last few years I started to create my own photography books, a single copy, for me, for my personal pleasure. My stories. It's hard to learn how to live with our insignificance, but when we do, it's very liberating.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Yes. Like swimming in the ocean heading away from shore. Daunting. The sand feels very different once we make it back.
@TheGodlypig2 жыл бұрын
Watched all 42 minutes of this and loved every minute
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I do ramble from time to time.
@Nikitas1112 жыл бұрын
Best photography lesson I ve ever had!!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Glad you like.
@melaninxhalide11652 жыл бұрын
Amen Amen Amen. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@PeterGoode11282 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video! Great info on the reality of book creation. I love making books but usually they are just for me or a small group of friends. Some are just images, while others may have a few words, and sometimes even a few paragraphs. I do them for me and occasionally for my friends. I find it so satisfying! I try and improve with each one, but never consider making money from them. It is all for the joy, challenge, and satisfaction! Once I discovered Blurb I was hooked. Thanks for an interesting and fun video.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Bookmaking is very addictive. Or can be. And so many options these days.
@garethdwatkins2 жыл бұрын
Interesting subject. I have many photographer friends who have done books... some successfully some not so. I used to collect every interesting photographer's book in the 80's when I was starting out.. 'The Photographer's Gallery' in London always had a great selection. Even after 25 years as a press photographer I couldn't really see a book in my work... like most I guess. More recently I've been doing personal projects and posting to social media, and several people have said I should do a book.. BUT I considered many of the points you bring up and I think you are dead right... I mean how many photobooks just end up in the bargain bucket racks in book stores? So I took your advice from a while back, to set a project with the idea of doing a book.. just one copy (or a small run to give out at most), coincidentally as it happens on Blurb. It has been very satisfying, I get to see my pictures in book form... (makes a changes from crappy news print). I have now made about half a dozen using the Bookwright/Blurb set up. I've made a few extra copies on some projects to give away, but the idea is basically to print them for myself. I think your advice is spot on... even for widely published snappers no one really cares about your book... unless you are known to a wider public. So thanks for your advice.. I'm chuffed to bits with my own photobooks, they give me a lasting hard copy of my favourite pictures.. which is far better than a 24h Instagram or Facebook post..
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Want to have your mind blown? Make a copy, put it in a self-addressed, stamped envelop and leave it somewhere with instructions for the person who finds it. Tell me what you think? Does this mean anything to you. Then wait....
@garethdwatkins2 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 I kind of had the 'time capsule' experience a couple of years back. My mum turned up with an old Ilford Multigrade box full of 10x8 prints. These picture I had taken back in the early 80's in the East End of London (very run down at the time I thought I was Don McCullin., a couple of Nikon's and some TriX). Most of the area has been redeveloped, the slums pulled down and the dock turned in the yuppy boutiques and coffee shops. This was my first Blurb book and I've actually sold a few copies too..LOL!! I really wish I'd kept the negatives, but I didn't see the value of the work as an 18 year old. My prints, made at home, were not very good, and I'm sure the negatives held more interesting shots. But scanned and corrected and sharpened a bit in Photoshop they look fine in the book.. I think most of my current pictures will have far more interest in 30 years, so hopefully they books will survive... Would be good if I could mail myself one in 30 years time... although I'd be 90 then so unlikely to happen...
@spyhunter64112 жыл бұрын
I half was hoping this was a video about books to read haha. I'm about done with blood meridian, and that was an excellent recommendation. It's a book I can't wait to read again to see what different things I take away.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
That book haunts me. I thought about it last night while walking at sunset.
@JMC07042 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. Enjoy your talks. I appreciate you’re not another commercial.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Most brands would never even think of partnering with me. Too honest. So, the ones I work with I truly work with.
@rosemanbridge10002 жыл бұрын
The KZbin algorithm was having a bad day, at 7.07 it cut to an ad for tampons 😂
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Hey, you never know when you might need one.
@robmcd2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your upload schedule lining up with my drive to work in Sydney Australia. I like to listen podcast style. Yes. My head blows off out the sunroof when you tell me things I don’t know.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Man, I miss Sydney.
@jeffschneider60222 жыл бұрын
I received a copy of Kodak City for Christmas it sparked a lot of conversation at the dinner table, it is interesting how Kodak had such a impact on all our lives. Thank you sir for your suggestion.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Yes, that company is in our blood. Mostly in a good way. Also a cautionary tale.
@photom32 жыл бұрын
I’m still hoping the matte cover idea will fly. Only have one book that might climb past 10 copies. Either way I won’t be surprised.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
you and me and everyone else....
@brandonbarash30292 жыл бұрын
Daniel! Im going to check out world from my front porch! Any other photo books that are unconventional and challenge how we can approach photo book projects? Mostly for fun and learning purposes
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
That book is fantastic. And for other books that challenge how we approach? There are too many to list. Here is one I did. shifter.media/print-magic-city-two/.
@expeditionsinsound22022 жыл бұрын
Peak design changed my strap life. Now I only use them when I need them.
@KNURKonesur2 жыл бұрын
Same here, at least for small format cameras. For old medium format cameras it was OPTECH that changed my life many years ago :D
@martinlawrence84272 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video Dan...just the advice I needed at exactly the right time...cheers dude!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@1kwords2 жыл бұрын
Loved the video. Answered many questions I've had recently since I started considering self publishing a photo book. Thank you!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Have fun with it.
@MrNobody1492 жыл бұрын
Hey Dan I feel your pain on the dancing, I’m in the same boat! I have all the coordination of a drunk who’s been propped up and hit with a taser!
@patappaul39102 жыл бұрын
I realy tried to like shooting my xt1 with manual lenses.... but that focus peaking just seemed so strange to me. I do have a xm with a voigt 15mm straped to it. I just zone focus that at f8 and love it. I used to shoot a canon 50d with a manual 35mm and it worked fine, you twist the ring and the boxes lit up nice and simple. I don't understand why Fuji cant figure that out, especially with the x100s and the pro. Nothing beats an old lens with a 1/4 turn and a zone scale. Happy birthday!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
For some reason doesn't bother me. But, seems to come and go as an option. But knowing me it's the death ray I put off. I shoot one frame and it works then it goes away and comes back.
@GlennZucman2 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 I don't really understand manual focus in the mirrorless age. I don't mean "don't understand" like "why would you bother". I mean I just can't figure out how to do it! With my ancient Nikon F film camera they had those zillion different "focusing screens" you could choose from. I loved, I think it was the "P" screen, that had a diagonal rangefinder-style split prism in the center. It was so fast and easy to put that on the edge of your eye and turn till focus was sharp. In the mirrorless age, I'm lost. Focus Peaking seems like a brilliant solution. Except for the part about how it doesn't actually work. I've tried every Focus Peaking setting I could find and the results are the same - focus peaking says it's in focus - resulting frame is soft. Zooming in to focus sort of works but it still isn't as confident as my old film camera, and then only if I have 1/2 hour to focus on a static subject. I honestly don't know how anybody gets sharp manual focus with today's stuff. Autofocus, most of the time, is fantastic with current equipment. So I mostly live there.
@rcfgnu2 жыл бұрын
It would be nice to have some advice on writing a photo essay for self-publication. Most of the time they are written by someone else in a photo book. Thanks
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
You mean the accompanying essay or intro?
@rcfgnu2 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 I'm interested in both. Also in can be start with simple text for a filed guide. Writing I think is an important skill to learn for photographer. Thanks
@KNURKonesur2 жыл бұрын
So strange to see you in colour! Thanks for switching back to B&W after the intro :D
@ZZ.912 жыл бұрын
Good to hear that, thanks for this sharing. (Geeky advice : To get a good 35mm équivalent, go check the Zonlai 22mm or the new TT artisan 23 f1.4)
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna try the pergear and see what is what.
@JCarlos.unknown2 жыл бұрын
Well done, Milnor. You did it again. I like this stuff.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@MTimWeaver2 жыл бұрын
Once again, thank you for all your knowledge. One of the bigger cons in the "model" photography world is 'getting published in a magazine', when said magazines accept pretty much any images (no matter how bad) and then run 6 covers so all the models in it can have a cover....and then charge both model and photographer for a copy. Maybe you get 'tear sheets.' And yet I know people (models and photographers) for whom that is how they measure their success. Several months ago you talked about creating our own books and magazines, and I had a thought..."Why don't I create a small magazine dedicated to the photoshoot I just did for local mode or client? They're in print, it's something a few folks might buy and it's only a few bucks...I mean, since the 'magazines' sell copies (probably only to the model and photographer anyway), why not cut out someone else making money, to at least being honest and putting a few bucks toward that? Or, maybe a semi-annual or annual magazine of my own with my fave images of the shoots I've done for the year? To me, that seems a more reasonable and fulfilling way to do it.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I say "yes," why not? I was once approached by a black and white magazine that inquired about running a feature on a project I had done. This had happened many times before and everything was going as it normally would until the last minute when this dipshi$ editor said "And it will only cost you $3000." It took me a second to figure out what was happening. "You want ME to pay YOU?" I asked. "Yes," she said. Took me about ten seconds to muster up the "go away." But, I went back through that magazine and realized a lot of good photographers had paid to get published. It was one of the early warning signs of just how screwed up this industry was.
@alexmetcalfe46682 жыл бұрын
I’d join your fight against the machines Dan!
@markscott40592 жыл бұрын
Milnor, have your heard of Martijn doolsaar? He has two picture books I taught you would fine extremely interesting in. His latest is “2 years on a bike”. Documented his bike trip from Vancouver to Patagonia…. Plus post on KZbin in clips on his two year journey….. the 1st KZbin clip is great….
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
that is a ride I would LOVE to do. I know quite a few folks who have done the Alaska to Pata route. Man, can't imagine. Books sound incredible. Thank you. Also, check out BombTrack Bikes and their films about a German guy who rode Pamir Highway. www.bombtrack.com/
@markscott40592 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 martijn only talked about his bike in the 1st video, a Surley bike and what he needed for this trip. He does not get into any gear reviews of the bike, outfittings, tent, or camera gear he used. Just used them as tools to tell you his story. The video and camera footage is outstanding.
@efraguerrero2 жыл бұрын
I print all my photographs and have made 3 books, thanks to your advice. It's such a better experience holding photographs as opposed to viewing on line. Thanks!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. It tends to have meaning. Even when we miss with a book.
@mikemanning82532 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!! I love it. Now that is camera bag.
@jenniferromonoyske36552 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan. I enjoy your honesty… I never consider myself and photog, everyone else does, they ask me to do work, I do it they love it and the style- but, it’s whatever. I have a whole canon line up and l series lenses - you know the deal but I’m more enthused abt my Fuji fixed lens .. I just grew up with it. (Film) My mom, an art teacher w dark room in my basement and I was obsessed w fashion so looking at TONS of magazines I was able to pick up on lighting composition I guess. I have a ton of photos, I just don’t know where to start. I put them online ppl like them and I really don’t care. I want to make books. I learned bookright b/c I had to make book for someone a few years ago. What’s a theme I can start with? Most of the photos I have from personal work is travel. I have done professional work and been published but like you said that’s boring nobody cares. I’d like to do a documentary project about cycling… my husband does it. I don’t know. I know you said start small or a color palette perhaps. Can I look through my archive and draw out pics for a particular theme? Btw Glad things are better w you and your situation you had.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Start something you can't stand NOT doing. It will pull you through the difficult spots.
@DanteCiullo2 жыл бұрын
Look at the Pergear 25mm f1.8. Optically it surprised me as being quite good (best between f/4 - f/8). I'd actually bought it with the idea that it would be super soft and low contrast for a look I was trying to achieve. I was wrong. It comes in Fuji mount. I has a clickless aperture ring (which I hate so I have a piece of gorilla tape to assure I don't accidentally rotate it because I shoot mostly aperture priority). Both aperture ring and focus ring are nicely dampened. It's worth a look as a manual focus alternative to the Fujinon XF 23mm f/2 R WR if inexpensive yet optically good is the goal (about $80).
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
that's what I just bought!
@DanteCiullo2 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 I know you don't do gear reviews, which I fully understand, yet I wouldn't mind knowing in the future if it worked out for your needs and produced images that met your goals. Like I said, my initial purchase was with the need of something soft and low contrast. Since the lens proved to have much better IQ it doesn't fit what I intended it for and have now started using it in a way that is more in line with the performance I've been seeing. Still a TBD as to how it fits into my workflow but I'm using it dedicated on my X-Pro 2 to put it through its paces. Time will tell. Keep up the good work on the channel. Really enjoy your perspectives.
@CHRISTOPH-B2 жыл бұрын
Man, I love this video! 😂😂😂 There’s so much truth in it and so many scenes, which made me laugh. Thank you!!! 😬
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Good. Laughing is key and if I can make you laugh then we are winning.
@kbarrett18442 жыл бұрын
One of the few channels where I watch an episode from beginning to end...
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Hey, that's a good thing!
@judithsteiner66472 жыл бұрын
New to this channel: Advice on how to make a single book?
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Hey Judith. Welcome. I've spent the last twenty-five years making mostly single books so I have plenty of data for you. Go slow, download software and make a test book that is inexpensive and not perfect. It breaks the ice and takes the pressure to make something special off the table. But I will add this question to my next Q&A.
@ruudmaas24802 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@AdamAllen2 жыл бұрын
Can't help but feel like the folks who need to hear this information the most, will never hear it.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
A lot of folks don't want to hear it. I get it.
@ArnaudFalchier2 жыл бұрын
Man! I learn and shit my pants laughing. Can’t ask for more :)
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
We all do it. Wear it with honor.
@aidinmb66792 жыл бұрын
Great Dan, I really enjoyed the video (I watched it two times already ) since I just ordered my second self made book from my self project from blurb. I can consider myself as story driven person, however, as much as I enjoy the story, I also enjoy the mystery, something that makes me think and not directly telling me what is going on here. The question is, what is your idea about story with picture and less text? I mean short text and some hints here and there but let the viewer have also time to think and get what he or she gets. I am asking this because after one and half year project, I could get together maybe 48 pages with maybe 30 pictures, I mean by saying story, you mean the actuall story, guiding step by step or give a particular feeling once you close the book and think about it?
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Depending on the imagery, you might not need much text. And it depends on the story. Take for example a book about war. You may see books that show the skill of the photographer and not much else, while a book like Blood And Honey by Haviv is like a history lesson, geopolitical lesson and more all wrapped into one publication.
@JR-lw8yu2 жыл бұрын
Great Video. Everything I have written and published had anger and proving someone wrong attached to it. It ended badly. The next chapter will be better.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Yep, in the words of Powers Booth from Red Dawn, "All that hate is gonna burn you up kid."
@JR-lw8yu2 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 So true. Red Dawn is partially filmed in Las Vegas, NM where my next chapter starts.
@ianf85542 жыл бұрын
My dream is to have a Taschen published book sat right next to Salgado’s £3000 book in the Taschen book store in London - until then I’ll carry on making small self published books and zines to give away to friends and family on stuff that’s personal to them and me. My current project a small a5 zine on Thai Boxing shot in a pro Muay Thai gym in Bangkok when I was last there. I’ll do a small run and give copies to my fellow Thai Boxing practicing friends in London when It’s made, just for fun.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Having a goal is a good thing. A friend once showed his work to a famous publisher, very similar to Taschen. The editor said "Oh, you want to do a book with us?" "Okay, shoot nudes, celebrities or nude celebrities."
@mvonwalter69272 жыл бұрын
I've watched this one like 3 times now.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Books in your blood.
@ebouwens2 жыл бұрын
You saved me $30,000 and more importantly, 30 friends, and 50 more people that I can now actually listen to and learn from. And looking for the weirdness, that's great!.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Ha, glad I could help. Yes, your friends and family thank you. And that 30k goes a LONG way toward life itself.
@crtslex2 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff, Dan.
@ronhester5972 жыл бұрын
I have a great Eggleston book from Twin Palms. I did a spit take at "bad heroin day."
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Twin Palms is a gem. Total gem. Love their work and books.
@4518042 жыл бұрын
You may become a new god. Honestly!
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Not likely. I'm just as messy as other people.
@4518042 жыл бұрын
@@DANIELMILNOR505 yes. But you are honest about it. I suspect since I’ve started making personal publications on blurb you appeared in my feed. I do like pretty much everything you say
@bioliv12 жыл бұрын
By the way, I learned yesterday that it was the Mohawks that saved Canada from the Americans, without the Mohawks Canada would have been part of the USA now. And after the war, Canada forgot about the Mohawks:-/
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
You own them, big time.
@bioliv12 жыл бұрын
I found a genealogist in Stoughton, Wisconsin, who is an expert on Norwegian genealogy from Toten where I live. Will contact him during the year. Now hoping to find many millionaires among my great-great-great-grandfather Ovren Mikkelson's descendents, who want to finance and support my many upcoming photo-books on our common history:-)
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
See if they want to support a stranger?
@Khajakkodian2 жыл бұрын
If there will be one thing i'll take from this video, it won't be 'Loosersvill' 😂
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I've got a lease with an option to buy.
@bioliv12 жыл бұрын
It's not really true about self publishing, as Martin Luther didn't at first know his work was published, it was just the printer who stole his work and started printing it, as he thought this could sell. Only later Luther understood the power of the printing press.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
Theft is a common theme in the creative world.
@garrytrinh30622 жыл бұрын
Please make a dance video.
@DANIELMILNOR5052 жыл бұрын
I am like a NSA spy Garry. I can sense anytime someone is attempting to record my dance moves.