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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: neile on October 09, 2011, 05:15:13 pm
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So many of our theads are about everything other than the actual image (what printer should I get? what paper should I use? what profile is good?). I figured it would be fun to borrow an idea from a car forum I read to pose a different kind of question:
What are you printing today?
In my case it's been literally months since I printed one of my own images so I dug through the archives to find something to print wide (attached). No idea how well it'll print and I'd honestly forgotten I'd taken the photo, but what the heck!
Neil
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Printing canvases for wife's home spa... using end of roll/remnant canvas and salvaged stretcher bars from some horrid art... cheap or free from craigslist...
34x46
28x40
28x24
12x12
12x12
and cooking a turkey, mashed potatoes, yams for canuck thnxgiving while also watching the pats game.
Wife and daughter are napping, so i must make haste!
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Not a thing today!
Canadian Thanksgiving here and watching the Winnipeg Jets play their first ever game (with their second franchise, of course).
Turkey, beer, hockey.... gee can anyone tell I'm Canadian? Haha.
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As an expat I'm about to head down and watch the Jets game as well. Heck, I'm going to see the Brandon Wheat Kings play in Everett later in October!
(In between printing, of course :)
Neil
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Not the outcome I was hoping for. Not that I'm a Jets fan, but as a member of the beloved Leaf Nation, I've been programmed to hate Montreal so any team playing them gets my support!
I'd love to see a Wheat Kings game but unfortunately Manitoba is a long drive from where I am in Ontario. We have the Guelph Storm here though, so I catch some live OHL games when I can.
Now off to repair the kids' PS3.
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Well, this thread took an unintended turn, but since we're talking about hockey... the running joke at work is "Leafs Suck!" :)
Alas no, not the intended outcome of the game. Oh well.
Neil
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I have a week off teaching so trying to get the prints done for an exhibition in December. If I can finish by Sunday it will be party time. I'd forgotton how difficult matte paper can be to softproof, but I think it's going to be worth the effort.
Here's today's output. Mainly running off some comparisons to see what uprez method will work best on the early morning shot. I think I'll wait for daylight before having a good look. It's Spring and everything looks better with blossom outside the window.
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Printing targets to evaluate the "new" version of Museo Silver Rag that was the discussion on this thread (http://http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=57681.msg469638#msg469638). :D Museo sent me a 36 inch wide x 10 foot roll of paper which was very nice of them. Problem is I only have a 3880 which as everyone knows is a 17 inch sheet feed only printer. I did manage to cut some sheets off the roll and decurl them. I don't think I'm going to be able to use the remaining 8 1/2 feet of the roll as it's just too hard to cut the paper without scratching the surface so if anyone in the Washington DC area wants this paper send me a PM. I'll be reporting out the results of the test on the aforementioned thread as soon as I do the readings and analysis.
Alan
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No time to print today; too busy reading the LuLa Forum. :(
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Scanned pinhole prints on paper. Black and white on a Z3100.
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I just got my 3800 back - Thank you Arditos in West Babylon, NY - and I can print again! Yay! I printed a few macro shots of Heavenly Blue Morning Glory flowers on Epson HPWB Signature Worthy paper. Our mild fall in NJ has resulted in an extended season and they are spectacular.
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nothing exciting on my end. Just sample prints for the Moab Paper booth at Photo Plus. Some 36" rolls for the booth, 13x19" prints as well as some 5x7 giveaways. Blowing through ink on my 3880 like there is no tomorrow. Also using a Z3200 44" and the iPF8300 for the larger rolls. Listening to Weezer in the background at a decent volume. Espresso maker is warming up. Calls are going straight to voicemail.
Not a bad day overall, I must say. :-)
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i'm printing glue! yes patterns of oak leaves on to maple veneer (which is overly warped from leaving it in my shop overnight. will press the crap out of it in my heat press, hopefully i can get the buckles out). after i print the glue, i will foil it with silver heat transfer foil and then switch my printer back to four color and print over the foil and clear coat.
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felt the urge to 1-up everyone here by saying i'm printing a liver but i'm not. :-\
i'm hungry now so i'm actually printing a couple of coupons for subway sandwiches on the 11880 so i can save a few bucks off dinner.
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Playing with some micro 4/3 files in Lightroom, made a 16x20 of this image on my Epson 3800. It's a quick grab shot, handheld, using the 14-45 kit lens with a G1. It makes a very nice 16x20, with good detail in the shadows. The lichen on the tree trunk in the foreground is clearly visible in the print. (Took this file from my Facebook account, so it's been compressed within an inch of its life. Sorry.) While I was at it, I printed some 8x10s from the same hike so my wife could hang new photos in her office.
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Well, this thread took an unintended turn, but since we're talking about hockey... the running joke at work is "Leafs Suck!" :)
Alas no, not the intended outcome of the game. Oh well.
Neil
Well they're now 2 - 0 so we'll see if we can lose the "Leafs suck" moniker this year! :)
Printing a piece of my artwork today for a client. That's it. Thanksgiving here today so we're taking it easy. Nice day outside here so we're getting the kids and dogs and going to find a nice trail to walk along for a couple of hours.
Printing can wait till tomorrow :D
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Just back from a week at Napa Valley and San Luis Obispo.
So much to print so little time.
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Printed an art reproduction for an edition. Canson Velin Museum on the Ep9900.
The repro was shot (not by me) with the new Hassie Multishot 200 Mp. Amazingly clean and pure colors,
Printed my last image (below) for my upcoming exhibition on Saturday. Canson Baryta on the Ep11880.
The file comes from a PhaseOne Apo 39 (b&w only). Which we had for test a couple of days.
Talking about hockey..... one of the NHL premier matches was held here in Stockholm: NY Rangers vs Anaheim.
/Sven
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Fun thread! :)
Today was "collage day":
(http://www.fototime.com/3DDED87996C7F13/orig.jpg)
(http://www.fototime.com/B4CFDA0B15E6EF1/orig.jpg)
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Sven, were those collages done with FotoFusion?
Neil
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Yes, I do use Fotofusion quite a bit, the latest windows version (4.5) is quite stable. Great software although it still is work until it looks perfect. I tend to reposition / reframe every single image within a collage until it looks right, but thats just me. Interestingly people love those big sheets with all the small images on it.
Sven
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I try to print a half dozen 16 20's a day to keep my Epson 4900 on its toes. Here are some from today, from different projects, but recent images.
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Slow day. Two canvas prints for a client.
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I was notified late last night that I was a Finalist in the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Contest. So I spent part of the day creating the print below on my Epson 7900 and ImagePrint RIP at 21"x30". Have until Thursday to get it Framed and to the Gallery for the juried competition. Ohhh boy....
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What are you printing today?
Well, I've been printing these images...a project for Epson which will be displayed at Photo Expo in large 40" x 60" backlit displays. The material is the Epson DisplayTrans backlight media printed on my 9900. The project was a collective effort of photographer Greg Gorman shooting the model, Robb Carr doing the retouching, Bert Monroy doing the tattoo designs and me doing the application of the tats onto her skin in Photoshop using my history blending technique. If you're at Photo Expo in NYC this week, check out the Epson booth and tell me how they looked...
(http://schewephoto.com/Epson-Project/red-dress.jpg)
(http://schewephoto.com/Epson-Project/blue-dress.jpg)
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They look great, wish I could see the prints in person. On another note what is the "using my history blending technique"?
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They look great, wish I could see the prints in person. On another note what is the "using my history blending technique"?
Well, it's complicated :~)
I've written it up in the book I did with Martin Evening; Photoshop for Photographers: Ultimate Workshop (http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-CS5-Photographers-Ultimate/dp/0240814835).
It boils down to using history snapshots to blend back and forth between the snapshot of the tattoo and the skin without the tattoo using partial blends of multiply, screen and overlay with fill from history and painting in using the history brush.
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And here I foolishly thought she had been to LA Ink and they were real tatoos!!!!
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Thanks Jeff. It doesn't sound like a technique I have used before. Interesting. Hope you give us a little bit of info on how the Expo was (if you are attending). I really wish I could go. I'm long overdue for a trip to NY.
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Printing baby pictures and fall landscape shots on my 3880 through Qimage on Harman Gloss FB AI Warmtone and Hahne PR Baryta. Also one of a Great Blue Heron that I have become quite friendly with. A mixed bag today.
Interesting technique and results Jeff! 8)
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And here I foolishly thought she had been to LA Ink and they were real tatoos!!!!
We did a LOT of tattoo research believe me. At one point the thought was to actually paint the tattoos on and there was discussion with the same body painter that did the Vanity Fair cover with Demi Moore wearing a suit. But the length of time it takes to apply even painted tattoos was too excessive...Greg had a day to shoot the model so I had convinced the people involved that I could apply the tats after the fact. It's the same technique that I used to do Globe Hands which is on my web site at www.schewephoto.com.
The one thing I wasn't prepared to do is the tattoo design. That's why Bert Monroy (http://www.bertmonroy.com/) came on the team. Bert designed the tattoos to work with the Fibonacci Numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci) of 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 89, 144, etc. based on Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2. That was the part of the job that made my brain hurt :~)
Here's a small 100% zoom view of the dragon head...
(http://schewephoto.com/Epson-Project/dragon-detail.jpg)
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Jeff you are definately Da Man!
I have your book and will be definately be looking for the "History technique" as soon as I get a chance. I am extremely interested in how you managed to get the skin texture into the tats!?
David
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We did a LOT of tattoo research believe me. At one point the thought was to actually paint the tattoos on and there was discussion with the same body painter that did the Vanity Fair cover with Demi Moore wearing a suit. But the length of time it takes to apply even painted tattoos was too excessive...Greg had a day to shoot the model so I had convinced the people involved that I could apply the tats after the fact. It's the same technique that I used to do Globe Hands which is on my web site at www.schewephoto.com.
The one thing I wasn't prepared to do is the tattoo design. That's why Bert Monroy (http://www.bertmonroy.com/) came on the team. Bert designed the tattoos to work with the Fibonacci Numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci) of 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 89, 144, etc. based on Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2. That was the part of the job that made my brain hurt :~)
Sports Illustrated started doing some body painting for their annual swimsuit issue some years ago and it took virtually all day to get the painting done right. I assumed it would be the same thing here. Wonderful technique to get the colors and designs just right. And of course the models can send the pictures back to their family who will at first be horrified that their daughter had abused her nice skin in this way only to be relieved to find out it was the masterful Schewe and PS! Kudos!
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I assumed it would be the same thing here. Wonderful technique to get the colors and designs just right. And of course the models can send the pictures back to their family who will at first be horrified that their daughter had abused her nice skin in this way only to be relieved to find out it was the masterful Schewe and PS! Kudos!
Well the congrats to the design go to Bert (and Dano from Epson) and the original shots to Greg Gorman but placing the tats is all me :~)
It ain't "easy" but it's doable...as indicated, the exact process is explained in the book.