Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 17th, 2011 1 Comment »
My friend Edward and I saw the Joel Meyerowitz show of his large ground zero images at The Tremaine Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut and we were both impressed by the way the images were mounted and hung. The above video shows the process. This isn’t something I want to do with my own images; I [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Photo Printing, Process on Aug 3rd, 2011 23 Comments »
I’m becoming extremely intolerant of poor design and it amazes me that so many people tolerate it. Sometimes the end justifies the means: putting up with poor design might be justified because the product does something well in the end and its worth putting up with an unpleasant user experience to get there. My fuse [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Photo Printing, Process on Aug 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Printstagram allows you to do fun things with your Instagram images. Instagram is a fun iPhone app for taking and sharing images. [via OliviaTech]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff on May 23rd, 2011 9 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about upgrading the printing end of my workflow for years but I’ve had such great results with my older Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printers that I didn’t want to mess with a good thing. I find it interesting that many of my online photographer friends don’t print their work or if they [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
The Design Blog has an interesting piece: IXXI Modular Art: Turning Photos and Designs into Large Scale Wall Art. IXXI looks fascinating to me. Not sure if many or any of my images could stand being blown up to wall size or if I could stand seeing them that big, but I think I might [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on May 12th, 2011 7 Comments »
I bought a new printer and unpacking it is quite incredible. I figured it was about time I bought a better fine art printer for larger prints (up to 17″ wide) with pigment inks. I have a show coming up and I’m starting to print, frame, and put it together so before I got too [...]
Posted in Fireworks, Photo Printing, Photo Sites, SSD (solid state drive) on Jan 7th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do another MagCloud project and finally got around to it. Having the SSD drive in my MacBook Pro helped with the heavy lifting of picture editing in Lightroom and layout and design in Pages. This issue of Wabi Sabi is my collection of images “fireworks from below” shot in 2008 on [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Oct 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Self-Publisher Comes to SoHo Blurb, a popular self-publishing company based in San Francisco, has tried to assuage that fear by planting a pop-up store, its first, in the middle of SoHo in New York. It will be there until the end of the month, complete with displays of finished books created by real customers.
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Photo Printing, Photo Resources, Video on Jun 5th, 2010 2 Comments »
The Impossible Project Nice documentary on The Impossible Project which is the new, reinvented Polaroid. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Photo Printing, Reading, Social Software on May 19th, 2010 3 Comments »
CBS Legal Department Sends Cease and Desist to 48 HR Magazine Totally stupid. Give me a ###ing break CBS. It’s a great magazine. I bought a copy right away and it’s well designed (I disagree with Carr that the layouts are “somewhat rudimentary”): the design reminds me of The Whole Earth Catalog which was a [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing on Apr 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
Laptopogram Laptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms. More on the process. Talk about mixed media. Fantastic idea. No doubt Gary will be trying this soon. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing, Photographers, Stop Action on Mar 23rd, 2010 17 Comments »
My friends Mamen Saura, Gary Sharp and I have put together a photo magazine of our work using MagCloud, a new publishing service. The process has been fantastic and I’m sure we’ll not only continue this magazine but we’ll also be using MagCloud for other things as well. Here’s the magazine: Wabi Sabi, Issue 1. [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Oct 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Luminous Landscape review of the Epson Stylus Pro 3880. This will probably be my next printer. It won’t replace my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 Mark II but will be an addition to it for making larger prints with pigment inks. I’m not in a big rush but I have little doubt this printer is in [...]
Posted in Events, Photo Printing, Photographers, Studio Photography on Sep 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Getty Center has an incredible show up: Irving Penn: Small Trades. This is a large collection of portraits of window washers, plumbers, bakers, waiters and more, shot in the early 1950s in New York, London, and Paris. Penn is both one of the greatest portrait photographers and one of the greatest photographic printers and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Landscape, Photo Printing, Places on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half Derek Powazek takes us step by step through having an idea, collecting content, designing a magazine and publishing and distributing it.
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Photo Printing on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I printed a thousand (1000) post cards for my friend Joy Brown to announce the opening of one of her shows a few years ago. Printed on Red River Polar Matte card stock on a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printer. I filled my office, our bedroom and other rooms with flat surfaces with [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jul 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Adorama, Blurb & Lulu – Book Printing Review A well written review by Raoul Gatepin including video of three web based photo book services. His conclusion is they all have enough weaknesses so that none is the overall winner. [via Lens Culture]
Posted in Photo Printing, Tools, Video on Apr 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
These days it’s becoming popular to do photographic printing on canvas and mount the canvas (stretch it) like a painting. This is a demo of a kit which makes this process near painless. I wish the sound was better but it’s worth putting up with as the demo is first rate. [via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing, Social Software on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick Use any page layout software, mark up a multi-page magazine, save it to PDF, upload to MagCloud and they’ll print a full color magazine for you at .20 per page. Making a Magazine with MagCloud To me, the great thing about this service isn’t this part of the process, although it’s [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Mar 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Canon has released upgrades to it’s two 13×19″ photo printers, the Pixma Pro9000 upgraded to the Mark II and the Pixma Pro9500 upgraded to the Mark II. They’re still selling the older versions as well and there will no doubt be reviews online soon. Read more here: Canon Printers.
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