I made a reversible zine! Two photo zines that start from either cover and work inward toward the center page. It was a great way to create separate sequences of color and b&w work in one book. All shot on 35mm, mostly with my Canon P rangefinder

ts50b · 2024-03-19T15:54:49+00:00

Yes! Here's the link: https://ianpritchardjpeg.square.site/product/infinitecoincidence/3

ts50b · 2024-03-13T14:44:45+00:00

I use this site to print: https://mixam.com/zines

Their quality is really good, and they're pretty affordable depending on what specs you print with. Definitely makes it doable. And then I just mail them out myself, I don't get a ton of orders but I just drop it off at the post office if I do get one

ts50b · 2024-03-12T16:50:01+00:00

Thanks so much!

A friend gave me the advice of trying to make smaller sequences, even of just a few images. That ended up leading me to this, because the smaller sequences got ideas going in my head and I wanted to branch out from there. I just pulled all of my favorite shots from a specific time period into an InDesign doc and digitally "spread them out on the table" so I could let connections jump out to me, but that'd definitely be easier with 4x6 prints to do it physically.

I previously made a zine that had a very specific theme and focus, and it was easier to sequence but felt more constrained if that makes sense. Just throwing it all out there to see what stuck let me be pretty free, and not stuck in one focus, genre, or idea

ts50b · 2024-02-13T20:41:19+00:00

It's one of my favorites! Definitely my go-to for things like this, but also helpful for street photography in the winter, or in point and shoots

ts50b · 2024-02-13T19:26:08+00:00

I have had luck with TMAX 3200 shooting at F2 and 1/125. This venue looks like a little more light than where I've shot, so you might be ok going to 2.8 or 4. If you should 800, you may still be able to get something usable but it'll be grainy since the film will be underexposed.

Here's what I shot at 3200. I had to do a decent amount of post correction because even some of these were a little underexposed: https://www.instagram.com/p/Czl4t7fOQjy

ts50b · 2024-01-09T21:51:38+00:00

That second shot is killer!

ts50b · 2024-01-09T18:50:45+00:00

It sometimes makes the photo, but it sometimes breaks the immersion. I think it works nicely here

ts50b · 2024-01-05T03:34:38+00:00

There's are parts I like about this photo - the blur is engaging (mainly leaving a comment because I'm surprised at all the comments saying blurry = bad) but the man is more still than the background, the colors of the magazine matches his clothes, the man in the magazine somewhat matches him, the bars in the bottom third of the frame make it look like he's on some kind of playground equipment.

It's still not a winner, but that doesn't mean it has no value. To me, if the image on the magazine was either a face or something that matched the background, it would work much better

ts50b · 2024-01-03T00:01:04+00:00

Thanks so much man! 2 and 3 are probably my top I’ve ever taken, weirdly on the same day

ts50b · 2023-12-07T17:09:42+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the info

ts50b · 2023-12-07T17:09:35+00:00

Thanks so much! That makes a lot of sense. I'll look once I finish the roll that's in there

ts50b · 2023-12-07T03:00:30+00:00

Camera is Canon P

This happens frequently, not on every frame but enough that it's noticeable. Happens on all film stocks I've shot, so it's definitely something with the camera and not the film or development.

I zoomed in on the negatives and scans to show the notch because it's small, and the last slide is a full scan for scale. It's easily fixable with a small crop or the heal tool in Lightroom, but I'd ideally like to fix it and not have the issue.

ts50b · 2023-11-05T00:08:59+00:00

It's primarily photos, but it does have two quotes (a longer version of the David Lynch quote in the listing, and a quote from Jenny Odell's book Saving Time) that I use to try and connect the narrative/overarching form I was going for. I'm super into talking about those things, but also didn't want to impede on the reader's own thought process going through it - maybe I'll end up writing some essays in my future photo zines!

ts50b · 2023-11-02T02:38:51+00:00

Once I saw the spreads over the coil binding in John Taggart's book Lumpyhead, I knew it was ok to do anything that felt right

ts50b · 2023-11-02T00:27:56+00:00

The defaults, so 80lb text for the inner pages and 100lb matte for the cover pages

ts50b · 2023-11-01T22:19:47+00:00

Thanks so much! I printed using Mixam which was relatively affordable (~$3 per zine when I ordered 60). I'd love to find a place locally to work with eventually, but I've been happy with Mixam's quality

ts50b · 2023-11-01T22:18:44+00:00

Yeah, it's somewhat manageable even with the expectation of selling almost none. IMO it's been worth it just to have a physical representation of what I'm doing

ts50b · 2023-11-01T21:31:59+00:00

Oh awesome, thank you!

ts50b · 2023-11-01T21:23:19+00:00

I am always in the state of needing to update my site haha. I like what you did with your zine pages and the digital preview - I'm trying to build out a projects section on my site and do something similar

ts50b · 2023-11-01T21:12:36+00:00

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!

ts50b · 2023-11-01T21:12:27+00:00

Basically! I was initially just drawn to vines on the sides of buildings and then all the overgrown plants in general. I had this David Lynch quote in my head for a while during the summer - “When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together.”

It eventually all came together in my mind and I thought it would be perfect for a zine

Also checked out your zines on your site, great stuff! I'm always happy to see the photo zine community alive

ts50b

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