45N 27E – Updated
A few months back I wrote a post about Radu‘s book of pictures from all over Romania. Initially I wanted it to be longer (the post I mean), but after we finished the project I was kind of exhausted and not really in the mood for story telling. Well, seeing as how holidays can be the most boring of events in life, I’ve decided to update that post, with a few pictures and thoughts about that prolific moment.
We were on a deadline. The publisher needed the book fast and Radu didn’t exactly feel good about the first draft of the book he did a while back, so step by step we changed it, starting with some of the pictures in it, then with the layout, the text, the order… until we pretty much changed the whole book except for the cover and print size.
I scanned a lot of negatives, I think somewhere around 180 slides, which is double the amount of the pictures in the book and it took working non-stop and learning a lot of new things and handling everything with great care, but man was it fun! The Nikon software had glitches sometimes and it would mess up the picture, other times the film wouldn’t stay flat in the scanner and the scan would come out blurry, but I somehow managed to get through all those problems and make the most of it.
We had a lot of fun those two weeks, we talked a lot, even disagreed a few times in regards to the selection of the shots but in retrospective, I think for both me and Radu this was one of the biggest challenges and maybe one of the biggest accomplishments altogether of 2009. We made a book! 
L.E. And here it is: 45N27E
Tags: 2009, 45n 27e, carte, negative, nikon 8000 ed, radu grindei, romania, scanat
