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It's been one year since I returned to printing photographs at home with the replacement of my old, defunct Epson 4800 with a Canon Image ProGRAF 300 (great name 😉 ). The Epson was turned over to an electronics recycler and the Canon is slurping up delicious ink....
It's been quite some time since I've printed any photographs at home. My Epson 4800, affectionately referred to as Dusty Boat Anchor right now, served me well for a while, but eventually became quite a burden and expensive thing to use. I certainly was not printing...
I am going through a lot of my photo archive during this crazy pandemic AND finally getting around to spending some time with some tools I previously invested in. I have had Topaz Labs plugins for a long time. In general, they have always seemed like a pretty good...
One of my regular keyword research tools is well-known Google Trends. It helps in relative comparisons of one phrase vs. another. While it doesn't give you the actual search volume of a term, it will give you a comparison on a scale over time. It can tell you, for...
The array of answers is interesting whenever I see the questions regarding signing photographs. In an older podcast by Brooks Jensen on signing prints (LW0025), he asks some probing questions and acknowledges no resolving answers. Even the 'traditional' art...
It isn't often that I write here to gripe about specific products or services, but an issue hit me recently that really touched upon one of my pet peeves (as well as profound appreciations) with photographic printing services. As any photographer will know, there...
A few years into selling prints, I began to ask myself this very question when it comes to my photographs. Provenance being basically a historical record of the origins of the image, and if printed, the media and process used to produce the print. If the...
Stock photographers are always reminded to shoot both verticals and horizontals of their subjects because you never know which is going to fit an editors needs better. Are they looking for cover material better suited to a vertical, or a two-page spread better...
Happy First Day of Spring folks - at least for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere. This is one of the wildflower prints that is hanging at Henry Ford West Bloomfield hospital. I originally had this as a horizontal in my gallery (rotated clockwise from here), but...