Prints

What to Stick on Your Wall?

Following on from one of Stu’s old posts, I recently decided to get a bunch of prints and canvases made to stick on our walls (now that we’re in the throes of redecoration!)

365:2:323 .. Camera to Canvas (by fwumpbungle)

What's on Your Walls?

Seeing your own work writ large on the wall really is so much more satisfying than seeing it on a computer screen, and I would advise anyone to try it.

But a very talented photographer, who goes by the name of Ryan Hyde, raised an interesting point over on my Flickr stream. Apparently he was told by his art teacher that “to surround yourself with your own photography motivates you to only be as good as you have been”, and it’s actually better to surround yourself “with work that is greater than, or at least different from, yours” to generate new inspiration. › Continue reading

Tags: artwork, canvas, home, inspiration, opinion, photography, prints

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 General 4 Comments

Pictures You Can Touch

prints (on paper!!)

Many years ago (in a galaxy not so far far away) when men roamed the earth in loin cloths and hunted for food down at the watering hole rather than the local 24 hour convenience store- photographs were not taken digitally. When you took a photo you had no idea how it looked until you had a print made from the negative. Weird huh?!?

In this digital age the vast majority of our photos never get past their binary digital state. They are transferred from the sensor to the memory card and then into our computers, displayed on our monitors and sent around the world via the web and email. Never really becoming more than a series of ones and zeroes or small electrical impulses.

Today I got some photographs printed at the lab to give to people for Christmas presents. It suddenly struck me that this was the first time in probably two months I’d visited the photo lab and got any prints done and considering I shoot photographs most days of the week that’s quite a long time. I think there is something special about a printed photograph. Maybe I’m just a sad old romantic but hanging or pinning a print on the wall or placing a photo of a loved one in your wallet is far more rewarding than emailing one to aunt fanny! I would like to explore the whole aspect of printing a fair bit more on this blog . The digital age has brought lots of new options as regards turning your digital virtual images into something more physical and tactile but before we get into all of that I just want to find out if I’m the only person who fails to progress my photos into physical form (I mean print them!!). So beloved reader have your vote and add your thoughts into the comments section. I’ve got a feeling there are going to be a few of us who rarely print?!?