As I mentioned in my first post about ordering an iPhoto book (part I) I received the paperback version of the iPhoto book (part II) and was pretty happy with it! I landed up giving away the paperback version, and still wanting a copy for myself to have around the house, I decided to order a hard back version…
First up, my first impression was that this is a real book. Even though I was more than happy with the paperback version, this one just seemed a whole lot more professional.
Seems extremely well made too – there’s an outer jacket which has the front and back designs that you specify in the iPhoto application. The jacket also has the book title on the spine. Then the cover itself (the hard cover) is a sleek matt black with silver text on the front with the book title and byline. Actually looks really good, even without the outer jacket.
On the inside of the hard cover is the brushed-metal-effect that you see when you’re designing the book in Apple’s iPhoto application.
The rest of the book is as you design it in iPhoto. Again, the printing quality seems excellent. Colour quality also excellent.
Bottom line – if you’re going to order one of these books, I think it’s well worth spending the extra dollars and going for the hardcover book.
Picture above was taken with a tilt-shift 45mm lens (ts-e 45mm) tilted in order to get as much depth of field as possible on the page of the book as it goes from foreground to background.
See this link for part I of the iPhoto posts (the ordering process and using iPhoto).
See this link for part II of the iPhoto posts (the paperback version review).
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/800 sec at f/2.8
ISO 320
45mm (tilt-shift)
Strobist info: One Canon 580 EXII flash with white umbrella (shoot-through). Positioned above and to the right of the book pointed downwards, 1/8 power.
