Glad it helped! I know everyone has their own method, but this is just what makes sense to me. Thanks for watching.

Hope it made sense! There definitely a lot of ways to go about sequencing. This is just one possibility. But it has worked well for me over the years.

@@AaronHardinPhoto It definitely does! I especially like the note about echoing form and not echoing content. I've really struggled to wrap my head around why one would go about it that way, but I think you did a good job of explaining this specific philosophy of forming concepts out of the sum of two disparate images by connecting them through similarities and differences in form. I know it's not the only way to go about things, but it's definitely an approach that wasn't intuitive to me. It was really enlightening to understand this school of thought better.

Glad to help. There are so many ways to go about making a sequence. But this is how I think about it. Good luck on the zine!

So glad it was helpful! I love helping the community make the best work possible.

Thanks for saying so. It took me a while to develop a method and simplify it down to be accessible for my students. Hope it helps!

@@irinakudres thanks for saying so!

Well that's just kind of the way I tend to see the world. You have to know your personal aesthetic and how to use it to weave a story. I may do another video on sequencing some color work in the future. Good luck!

You are very welcome. I'm glad it made sense.

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My pleasure!

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Yeah, working with prints makes the process much easier, and gets you closer to the book form. After I do this, I re-print each photo on letter paper and put them together like a book. You will again see little changes you will want to make. Good luck with the book!

Thanks!

There definitely isn't a singular way. But this is where I've landed after working through many many photobooks.

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Ben, I'm glad it was helpful. Honestly, most of the same principles apply with color work. You just have several more aesthetic parameters to balance - how does the color palette connect or clash? Do sequential images have connected colors? How can you use contrasting colors to draw attention or connect images? And so on. In some ways, it gives you more options to visually connect images.

@@AaronHardinPhoto I think it’s those extra aesthetic parameters that are making sequencing colour a challenge. Especially with the busy colourful images, I'm currently taking on the Mexican streets. An incentive to keep things simple, maybe. And all the more satisfying when things do balance out. You've given me plenty to think about - thanks again, much appreciated.

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You are very welcome! I hope it helps you make wonderful things.

Hope it was helpful!

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Thanks for watching!

BTW, have you considered placing the pit photo first and the kid jumping after? It would feel like a premeditated jump and the texture of the pit photo is similar to the one that comes before. Just a thought...

So glad it was helpful. The book has been resequenced a few times since I made this (as they always do). But I hope these videos can help you make the best work possible!

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Kevin, glad this was helpful. Per your questions: I don't plan at all during the shooting phase. For me, photography is instinctual. Often the narratives are working out in my subconscious and I'm rarely fully aware of the story. Generally, I have some rough guidelines I'm adhering to (certain mediums or image capturing devices, as well as locations and people). I find that the photos then tell me the story or narrative after the fact. The process of editing and sequencing is extremely important to understanding the work. I find that my best work always comes from less of me consciously forcing the photos to happen and more of me walking through the world with my hands open.

That's tough to give general advice. I always begin my editing process by breaking things down into chunks. So if the artist has several complete bodies of work, I would spend time editing down and sequencing each one, one at a time. If the artist's work is a huge catalogue of individual pictures, I would first sift through the work and write down key themes, subject matters, locations, etc... This may give you a place to begin subdividing and connecting the work. Most artists tend to belabor the same subjects for many years (which is good). Now, the biggest and hardest bit of advice is that you have to be a brutal editor. You really have to cut down the work and only show the absolute strongest photographs. I tell my students that most photographers are only known by a handful of pictures in their entire careers. So really the first step would be a harsh edit down to the fewest number of images possible. Hope this helps!

@@AaronHardinPhoto Thank you, Aaron. Good solid advise, which I would give, as well. My photos are all musicians spanning 45 years, so the book as historical value. Over 45 years, even being brutal as an editor, stills leaves a massive number. I can get it down to 225-250 images. But in 45 years if a photographer does not have a lot of great images, they were in the wrong field or they wouldn't have been hired. And then, there is the negative factor. (remember negatives?) I will, as you say, break it down to 3 sections. That should help. All the best. thanks for your consideration and valuable time.

@@IreneYoungFoto Ah okay, that makes more sense. It's always hard giving advice without seeing thee work and knowing the photographer. But I think 250 is totally reasonable for a retrospective book. You could go semi-chronologically, by genre, by artist... So many options! I know it is a lot of work, but you will be so proud once it is finished. Good luck!

@@AaronHardinPhoto THANK YOU, Aaron! Thank you very. much.

I haven’t yet. I’ve printed several versions and layouts of the book so far to figure out what I want. But I hope to release a short run of the book in 2021. I’ll be posting more when that happens on my Instagram: @aaronhardinphoto

There are several more videos in the series and a final flip through of the book. Thanks for watching!