New book edit.

I'm headed to NYC next week! I'm so excited ... it's been a while and long overdue. I have a bunch of meetings set up and I hope to get in a test.  I was also long overdue for spicing up my book.  I update my website whenever I can but my book is a little more difficult -- the way I have it now, I have the photos mounted to each other back-to-back without being in plastic sleeves.  Just saying that gives me the willies!  I'm over plastic sleeves, but the alternative is harder. Anyway, more on how I put my book together for another post. The photo above is a snapshot of how I edit my book. After a shoot, I typically drag and drop RAW files into a folder that always has a different name.  Sometimes it's one shoot, sometimes it's many. At some point along the way, I'll have 4x6s made of those photos made at Target. It's usually a pretty loose edit so I can digest what hits me. I throw the photos up onto a big black bulletin board in my studio I have just for editing. And I just let them marinate. And I tinker -- moving things around and experimenting with pairing combinations, editing within a shoot and folding the paper to get better crops.  At some point, it will hit me and then those go in the folder to send Angiepants, my retoucher. Then I start working on the order of my book. I concentrate on a cadence and a pace, storytelling (to a point), color and energy synchronicity. And then overall, I like to step back and see if I think the whole package is representative of me and my work.