Muted and Textured Image Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag It’s a lot of fun printing your own work and learning the nuances of it, but if you’re like me you simply might not have the resources to have your work printed how it should be. This process is an entire industry that you could spend your life learning. Glossy? Matte? Metal? All those dark areas that you can make out on a screen suddenly get much darker in print because there's no backlight. On top of that, the paper you’re using completely affects how that image is going to look. Maybe you're looking at your images on an LCD IPS panel, or an OLED, or what about the age of your monitor? Then you take the image you see on your screen and change it to CMYK color space, meaning you’re now creating colors using a completely different algorithm. Think about what you see on your monitor is backlit in the RGB colorspace. Seeing my work for the first time on a wall made me realize just how much I needed to start thinking about printing before I ever even took the shot, and doing this changed my work forever. Witnessing it within a space surrounded by the presence of other tangible things, touching your work in the physical form for the first time as if it now exists in the real world. There is nothing more satisfying, in my opinion, than seeing your work in print. The transition to digital took away a lot of this physical interaction and absorption of photography over the past 20 years meaning for someone like me, I just never got to experience it. If you broke photography down into capture, edit, and print - printing holds just as much weight in the equation as the other two variables.
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