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July 14, 2019 | Leave a Comment |
“A forest is much more than what you see… Underground there is this other world — a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. It might remind you of a sort of intelligence.” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.
Find more great resources on trees at Brain Pickings.
Read about the must-read book The Hidden Life Of Trees.
Category: Environment - Video, Video - TED Tags: communication, earth, Environment - Causes, simard, TED, trees, Video, wohlleben, Wonderful World
July 7, 2019 | 1 Comment |
One of the keys to making a great print is great shadow detail.
Shadow detail is something to be mindful of during exposure, processing, and printing. Curiously, even if you see shadow detail in your file on a calibrated monitor you may not see all of the details in your print. What can you do about this? Many things!
First Check Your Color Management
Before you start editing your files based on your proofs, check your color management system.
Recalibrate Your Monitor
Make sure you’ve calibrated your monitor with hardware. Set a brightness value of 90-100 lux, instead of using the default brightness target of 120 lux. If you monitor is too bright, your prints will look dark overall, especially in your shadows.
Read more on Profiling Your Monitor here.
Give Your Prints Enough Time To Dry
Inkjet prints come out of the printer almost dry, but not quite fully dry. When they’re fully dry, they’ll appear slightly lighter, especially in the shadows where there’s a lot of ink. So before you evaluate prints critically, give them a few minutes to dry. This affects absorbent matte surfaces even more than glossy surfaces.
Find my resource on Outgassing here.
Look At Your Prints In Good Light
Look at your prints in good light. You need the right amount of light (a CRI of 90 or higher), you need the right color temperature light (5000K is the standard but many viewers prefer the warmer 3600K), and it helps to use full-spectrum light (Many manufacturers now make full spectrum bulbs.)
Read more on Controlling Your Environment here.
Media Type sets the amount of ink that's used.
Set Your Media Type Correctly
Your printer driver will allow you to set your media type, which controls ink the amount of ink that is sprayed on your paper. Use too much ink and you’ll lose shadow detail. Use too little and your blacks and midtones will appear weak. If you’re using a paper not made by the manufacturer, choose the nearest media type and then adjust its settings with the printer driver’s advanced utilities. (You’ll find this under Advanced Media Control with Epson printers.)
Find my resource on Ink Limit here.
Print test patches to determine when maximum black is achieved and when separation is lost.
Print A Target To Determine How Much To Lighten Shadows
Before you adjust your files for printing precisely determine how much you need to lighten your deep shadows by printing a target. While they vary a little, most media settings lose shadow detail around a value of 96% on a grayscale. If you print patches of values between 100% and 90% you’ll see exactly where you lose shadow detail. Printed results will vary slightly with each different media setting, so you’ll need to adjust files slightly differently for different media.
You can download my targets here.
Next Adjust Your File
Category: Technique - Printing Tags: color adjustment, Color Management, detail, output specific adjustments, print, Printing, proofing, shadow
July 5, 2019 | Leave a Comment |
John Paul Caponigro
Jeremy Cowart
Gregory Crewdson
Lois Greenfield
Steve McCurry
Gerd Ludwig
Mark Seliger
John Sexton
Tim Tadder
Amy Toensing
Steven Wilkes
Top photographers celebrate printing and talk about what drew them to photography, the inspiration that drives their work, the stories behind their most famous images.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
Read more with my online Printing Resources.
View more with my Printing DVD.
Category: Printing, Technique - Printing, Video - Printing Tags: Amy Toensing, Epson, epson legacy paper, gerd ludwig, Gregory Crewdson, Jeremy Cowart, john paul caponigro, john sexton, Legacy, legacy papers, lois greenfield, Mark Seliger, steve mccurry, Steven Wilkes, Tim Tadder
June 15, 2019 | Leave a Comment |
My father and I presented our photographs together at B&H's OPTIC 2016 Conference.
Enjoy!
Read our conversation here.
View the ebook Two Generations here.
View the Two Generations exhibit catalog here.
Category: Photographers - Video Tags: B&H, Event - Lecture, father and son, OPTIC, two generations
June 6, 2019 | 2 Comments |
In this Epson video my father and I share insights into our creative lives and our passion for printing.
Learn about our exhibit here.
View our catalog here.
View our ebook here.
Learn more in my digital printing workshops.
Category: Video - Artists, Video - Photography, Video - Printing Tags: black and white, Color, inkjet, john paul caponigro, paul caponigro, print, Printing, silver gelatin
June 6, 2019 | 1 Comment |
Maximum Dehaze
Maximum Clarity
Maximum Texture
Maximum Sharpening
Negative Texture
Negative Clarity
Think of Adobe Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw’s new Texture slider as producing an effect that lies somewhere between the Clarity and Sharpness sliders.
It’s closer to Sharpness so when you apply it, rather than looking at the full image, zoom in to 100% to evaluate the detail accentuation it produces. So, use it more for detail enhancement than contrast.
Category: Technique - Raw, Technique - Sharpening Tags: camera raw, clarity, dehaze, detail, Raw, sharpening, Software - Lightroom, Texture
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