So here I am in the final (?) throes of compiling/editing a Blurb
book representing a one-week trip by 19 of us from my church. The
sparse text mostly authored by me, with a few "reflections" authored
by and attributed to others. Of the 375 images, I would guess that
about 100-125 are mine, another 60-75 or so from each of three
persons, the remainder split among another 3 persons. On the cover,
etc. I show myself as Editor rather than author.
My question has to do with attribution of the photos. My original
idea was to imprint the photographer's name on each photo when
exporting from LightRoom, using the EXIF data which I processed on
input to insure that the provenance of each shot would not be lost.
As some of you may know from my earlier mutterings, LR always places
the imprint on the lower left corner. Which doesn't work for a
variety of reasons having to do with the way Blurb works. (Including
the trim on full-bleed layouts, the mismatch between image aspect
ratio and Blurb aspect ratio, etc.)
One of you pointed me to a LightRoom Plug-In: LR2/Mogrify. Highly
recommended, allows for imprints/overlays with nice control of
location. And borders and other goodies.
Now that I have the tool, my dilemma has to do with design. Do I
imprint every photo to give attribution to the photographer? Looks
kind of busy on a page with 6-8 small images. Particularly if 5-7 of
them are by the same person. (There are some pages that are all mine,
there are one or two with all by another person, but most with more
than 2 images derive from at least two different photographers.) (It
is also a fair amount of work, quite a few evenings worth, to
regenerate all of the images with proper aspect ratio and proper
attribution imprint.) Or do I compile a list to put on the last page
(e.g., p 38 - all images by Stan Halpin except for upper left corner,
by Alan Smith)? Forget about attribution altogether? (This option
would hurt; I think the quality of mine is better than most of the
other shots, I would like to claim credit. I don't think the others
would really care one way or another.) (I guess I could say in the
preface: "all high quality photos are by Stan, except for the one on
page 23 and the left-most one on page 113...")
Oh, and one added complication: how about the shots of us as a group,
taken with an identifiable camera but by the random waitress,
stewardess, or passer-by?
Any preferences for one of the above, or is there another option I am
missing? (In context, humility and lack of attribution are probably
the right course of action, but I am resisting.)
stan
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