I'm excited to announce the beginning of a new venture: The Print Shop! A place to get high quality giclée prints of your own work 
As many of you who hang around in the PFM Photo Room know, I'm a big advocate of printing your own images. The reasons for this are:
The advantage with giclée printing is that it allows you to experiment with many different paper types. From textured German etching papers to fibre based baryta papers. (If you've never seen one of these prints before, you're in for a treat!) These papers offer a luxurious, heavyweight feel which (IMHO) really makes them stand out and gives a pride of ownership unmatched by the typical C type prints offered by the likes of Photobox.
Giclée prints also have more saturated and vibrant colours than C type prints. See below for an example of some of my prints, made on Fotospeed PF Lustre 275:
The prints are made on an Canon Pro-1000 using a fully colour managed workflow with a calibrated monitor and custom ICC profiles created by myself using my x-rite i1 pro 2 spectrophotometer. (I have found these to be superior to custom profiles I've had created by the paper manufacturer)
To start with, I will be offering 3 different paper types (but this will expand over time) These are:
Print sizes are A4, A3 and A2 over time. My pricelelist can be found below:
I am working on an online ordering system but for now, please PM to place an order.
I do hope some of you will be placing orders. There is so much photographic talent in this forum and it would be great to help you all experience the joy of the printed image
Amar
As many of you who hang around in the PFM Photo Room know, I'm a big advocate of printing your own images. The reasons for this are:
- There's nothing more satisfying than seeing your own images in print. Photography is now more accessible than ever, yet the majority of images never exist beyond a screen. This is a huge shame.
- Printing makes you a (much) better photographer. The single biggest improvement I saw in my own photography came when I started printing. Keeping the final print in mind made me approach image making in a completely different (and better) way.
The advantage with giclée printing is that it allows you to experiment with many different paper types. From textured German etching papers to fibre based baryta papers. (If you've never seen one of these prints before, you're in for a treat!) These papers offer a luxurious, heavyweight feel which (IMHO) really makes them stand out and gives a pride of ownership unmatched by the typical C type prints offered by the likes of Photobox.
Giclée prints also have more saturated and vibrant colours than C type prints. See below for an example of some of my prints, made on Fotospeed PF Lustre 275:
The prints are made on an Canon Pro-1000 using a fully colour managed workflow with a calibrated monitor and custom ICC profiles created by myself using my x-rite i1 pro 2 spectrophotometer. (I have found these to be superior to custom profiles I've had created by the paper manufacturer)
To start with, I will be offering 3 different paper types (but this will expand over time) These are:
- Fotospeed PF Lustre 275
- Fotospeed Matt Ultra 240
- Fotospeed Platinum Baryta 300 - an absolutely gorgeous, fibre based baryta paper, particularly well suited to black and white images - highly recommended
Print sizes are A4, A3 and A2 over time. My pricelelist can be found below:
I am working on an online ordering system but for now, please PM to place an order.
I do hope some of you will be placing orders. There is so much photographic talent in this forum and it would be great to help you all experience the joy of the printed image
Amar
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