u/SantinoArt

I started on Substack around June. I'm an author and a photographer and I found every other platform to be dead or useless, especially Instagram.

My goal is mainly to get my work out there and sell some prints and books.

Once I figured out what I wanted to do with substack, I made two. One is for my stories. The other is pop culture discussion. On my main substack ( the story one), I do have a paid tier, but I never use the paywall. If someone wants to pledge, I would be super grateful, but I view it as a tip. I also encourage people to just buy one or more of my books, rather than pledge.

So my strategy is to get as many free subscribers as I can and hopefully get them to tip me.

I'd be interested in hearing how y'all approach subscriptions.

I'll be cruising out of San Juan in January. The itinerary includes Barbados, St Maarten, Kitts and other places I can't remember. It arguably has too many locations for a 7 day; not that I mind. I'll happily hear any recommendations from those who have done that line before.

If I were to decide to write essays about the park--- I don't know that I will-- but if I did, what topics would you like to know about?

Bear in mind, I can't answer any questions about the politics involved or anything about Bayou Phoenix. I never had direct contact with BP.

For anyone who might be interested, I just posted a story from my time at Jazzland on my substack. I'm currently working on a book of the super weird things that have happened in my life. This will probably be the only Jazzland story I post though. As I said, there is a lot that I haven't figured out as far as posting on the internet.

If you have a substack and you like weird stories, give me a follow.

My name is Adam Santino. I was one of two photographers allowed inside SFNO from 2023-2025. So basically the last two years that the total remains of the park existed.

I haven't posted much in this subreddit, because I don't want to abuse this community. I consider myself here as a guest. But as I move forward in deciding what to do with the work I have, I was hoping I could ask y'all about your opinions on the Jazzland/ SFNO community.

If this isn't allow, I am sorry and I won't post again.

How big is the Jazzland fan community at this point? Are they interested in images from the pre-and post-demolition era? If they are, are they only interested in getting them for free?

Are the majority of fans in or outside of the US?

Again, I apologize if I am being a nuisance. And if anyone has questions for me, I am open to them. Bear in mind, I have a lot of considerations that I have to take into account. But where i can answer, I am happy to do so.

I'm about to start work on a coffee table photography book. Several of the images are giant, beautiful panoramas and I'm trying to figure out how to place the images.

I'm aware that you can set it so that only double page templates are visible, but I prefer not to use those for single images because it makes it vastly harder for me to evenly space them out.

Does anyone have any advice on how to place my panoramas?

Thanks in advance.

I realize this is adjacent from what you asked for, but this is the sphere after the Korver moved it from its original space. They put one of the bumper cars underneath it.

https://preview.redd.it/q98cm4igj5gh1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e51ee8800511068e07bd5c8fe60f9d2228709dc

So I've now used Affinity Publisher twice to create photography books. Or rather, I am working on the second one now. For some reason, every time I save my projects, they will lose data on images and I have to re-add the images. Its happened many times now.

Does anyone have any idea why this keeps happening?

I'm very close to doing a much larger book with many more images. I don't want to have to re-add 100 files every time I reopen the saved project.

So I build a book for my photography to sell online. When I go to export the PDF file, for some reason many of the images will have a strange artifact.Where it will look like the top half of the image is torn and bleeds into a random image from later on in the document. I tried exporting a single page from the book , but when I only export a single page , it doesn't replicate the problem.

EDIT: problem solved. The issue was the "rasterize everything" setting. After I turned it off, the pdf exported correctly.

I am literally learning as I go. I created a 40 page document. Do those pages include the cover?

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I'm assuming the cover will be a separate document, but i wasn’t sure.

I'm working on creating a photography book that would be available on Ingram Spark. I have Affinity Publisher, but trying to figure it out has been frustrating. I've looked at Blurb and Magcloud a bit. Unsure about either. If anyone has experience building books, I would appreciate any advice you could give me. Any tools or templates I should look into?