WHAT MAKES A GOOD BOOK?

I received some good advice from Harvey yesterday that he said I could pass onto the group about what makes a good book for us.

Harvey said: "heather....i do not think raul and i are so different in what we think is a good picture....there are always slight variances and judging a picture is totally subjective, but over the years i have noticed that the really great powerful pictures everyone agrees on and the mediocre ones tend to involve "more conversation" .... the only thing i think about your project now is that you may be trying to put too many pictures in this book....be careful.....most photogs[photographers] tend to overdo it.....raul will be a good editor for sure, but when we edited your film we were looking for the very best pictures....period...now we were democratic and i think picked 6-8 photos per photog[photographer] for the purpose of that slide show....some people had more than 8 good ones and some people had less, but we had to give everyone the same amount for that show......but a slide show is one thing, a book is another....very different animals....even 2 pictures per photog[photographer] would give you a 50 page book.....the worst thing you can do is to have it look like too many pictures.....too few is way way better than too many.....set the bar high and stay there.....when i am on a shoot if i have one really good picture per week i am happy....my 20 years in the spanish world gave me a book with 100 pictures.....and please please make the book just be student pictures....otherwise what is the point? it should be a great group photo-essay for one week from one group of 25....no more, no less......you should not try to make it something that it isn't.....ok my two cents.....keep up the good work and i am anxious to see the result....cheers, david"