[Leica] Book cover design or photo

Douglas Sharp douglas.sharp at gmx.de
Thu Apr 12 13:44:36 PDT 2018


Back to the Christmas ball - this time with two.

You'll need some kind of very narrow stand and some 
double-sided adhesive tape behind them to stand one 
firmly on top of the other - then shoot away! Could get 
some interesting reflections, too.

On 12.04.2018 22:36, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Don't know whether it would work, but  try something 
> spherical like a Christmas tree ball resting on a 
> mirror and crop the image at top and bottom.
>
> Or just photograph the ball, halve the image, 
> duplicate it,reverse one half as a mirror-image and 
> merge the two.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> On 12.04.2018 19:15, John McMaster wrote:
>> Or just do it all in PS.....
>>
>> john
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LUG 
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Don Dory via LUG
>> Sent: 12 April 2018 18:00
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Cc: Don Dory
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Book cover design or photo
>>
>> Have you considered some glass spheres and a lot of 
>> photoshop. Photograph a glass sphere on the 
>> background of your choice; do a hard crop so that it 
>> is the hemisphere that you want; copy and flip in PS 
>> then using layers place them as you imagine.  Using 
>> selection tools select just the spheres then put 
>> those as the first layer with what works for you 
>> cover as the second layer.
>>
>> All the best.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:50 PM, John McMaster 
>> <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> The only round bottomed things we have in our 
>>> kitchen are bain-maries
>>> for chocolate, I cannot think of any other 
>>> hemisphere based items as
>>> they are of little use.  Maybe something with a 
>>> hemispherical top inverted.....
>>>
>>> john
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: LUG 
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Peter Cheyne via LUG
>>> Sent: 12 April 2018 10:06
>>> To: lug
>>> Cc: Peter Cheyne
>>> Subject: [Leica] Book cover design or photo
>>>
>>> Dear LUGgers,
>>>
>>> I've written a book that wants a cover. I have an 
>>> idea, but can't find
>>> the materials to execute it. The book is academic, 
>>> to be titled
>>> *Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy*. My cover 
>>> idea is of an image
>>> of one hemisphere, inverted, on top of another, 
>>> i.e. a bowl facing
>>> upward, atop a bowl facing downward. Here are some 
>>> rough sketches I made:
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/24ZJpyo
>>>
>>> My initial thought was to find two matching 
>>> hemispheres, and arrange
>>> them as in the sketches, photographed against a 
>>> white backdrop, with a
>>> clean, modernist, minimalist aesthetic. Two 
>>> hemispheric glass bowls,
>>> or iron ones, or brass, or some other material. But 
>>> I can find no such things, so far.
>>> (The concept, by the way, is of the higher, 
>>> enlightened understanding
>>> turned upward, towards what Coleridge called 
>>> reason, spirit, and
>>> ideas, with the lower hemisphere turned towards the 
>>> things of the
>>> senses.)
>>>
>>> Does anyone have access to such objects? If you 
>>> could photograph them
>>> in a way suitable for a book cover, I could pay. 
>>> Not a great deal, but
>>> around
>>> $200 is possible. The publisher might possibly be 
>>> able to match that
>>> too, so between $200 and $400 is possible. You'd 
>>> also get a hardcover
>>> copy of the book. My previous was published by 
>>> Oxford University
>>> Press, and I'm hoping this one will be too.
>>>
>>> Also, if anyone here is a graphic designer, and 
>>> thinks they could
>>> nicely execute a graphic image, rather than a 
>>> photo, developed from
>>> the idea in my sketches, that would be an 
>>> interesting option too.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Don
>> don.dory at gmail.com
>>
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