Proud Photography Blog

This blog actually dovetails nicely with the series I had recently on color management. So instead of covering all that territory, be sure to go back and check out Part 1 and 2 of “Displaying your photos: screen or print?”

If you’re sick and tired of getting weird photos out of your printer at home, or if you just don’t feel like buying all the ink required to print off you whole honeymood album, your next best friend could be one of several online photo printers. I’m talking about places like Snapfish, Kodak, or Mpix. These companies are all very Read the rest of this entry »

Scenario: You’ve just spent an hour and a half culling through your photos, picked your favorites, doctored them up in photoshop, and are now waiting those few glorious moments as the printer spits out your prize-winning photos.

As you expectantly peek inside the printer and get a glimpse of your adorable pet photo, you realize you are the proud owner of a purple tinted dog, that typically is a stark white labrador retriever. You start jamming the cancel button hastily, your blood pressure rising with every extra spit of purple ink the printer keeps churning out till the memory buffer is emptied in the printer. You want to scream and cry and yell at everything within earshot. (Ok, so maybe that last part is just about me)

In any case most people who have tried printing their photos out on their own printers have gone through Read the rest of this entry »

These days there are more and more options for displaying your digital photographic work. There will always be the die-hard film enthusiasts who want to make their own prints. And you know, they do amazing work. But for those of us who have left the world of film for the ease and beauty of digital, we are faced with a few more options than dropping off our film at the developer, or doing it ourselves.

For digital photographers there are basically two options for displaying our work; print mediums, or screens. More and more people have been turning to a variety of LCD displays, all the way from high-definition big-screen displays, down to the $100 8-inch displays that fit in a nice little frame on our desks. These LCD’s are getting sharper and sharper, and their biggest advantage is in their versatility; they can display hundreds of images in one thing. No purchasing of mattes, frames, or printing costs. Just great colors, and a slide-show capability. They even have a much higher resolution capability than other print mediums.

So what’s the down-side to LCD displays? Well, the biggest one is that you’re probably only going to buy one, maybe two. That really cuts down the number of photos you can put around your house at any given Read the rest of this entry »