The outcome of all your efforts is ink on paper, therefore you better use the best ink and the best paper. Ansel Adams, paraphrased and adapted to digital printing. 1 - Introduction I decided to follow my series about Printing in Lightroom with an essay about my favorite printing papers. It is a logical continuation. After writing about printing I wanted to talk about the … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 7: Printing from Lightroom Part C – Color Management
1 - Introduction: about printers If papers are important, something I discussed in my previous essay, printers are just as important. After all, it is the printer that lays the ink that goes onto the paper. As such the printer is the worker, the intermediary between what we see on the screen and what we get on the paper. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 6: Printing from Lightroom Part B – Templates and Soft Proofing
1 - Introduction It is seeing original prints from master photographers that inspired me to create my own photographs and learn how to print them as well as they did. Great prints are inspiring. They move us. They transport us to the places they show and make us live the events they capture. My prints, your prints, are the expression of our vision, of our skills and our … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 5: Printing from Lightroom A – Selecting, Editing and Creating a Layout
1 - Introduction: why printing your work is important An important aspect of turning your photographs into art is printing them. Printing is necessary because fine art photography is both a digital and a physical artistic medium. In the case of photography, the physical medium is a digital or a chemical print. In the case of other mediums, it can be a painting, a drawing, … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 4: Overexposure and High-key Images
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. Leonardo da Vinci 1 - Photographing in a snowstorm - A snowstorm in the northern New Mexico mountains It took me several minutes to realize I was caught in a serious snowstorm. Going from the low desert to the mountaintop in a few miles does that to you. I took the situation seriously … [Read more...]
