The same applies to photographic images. Chances are, you see hundreds of photographs every day on the internet, and you probably don’t look at any of them for more than a few seconds. A quick glance at an image on a web site might convey images of “sad person”, “big tree”, “cute kitten”, or “evening landscape”. Those quick glances rarely provide meaning beyond that first impression.
A fine-art print,
carefully created with archival inks and museum-quality paper,
will open the door
to a real opportunity
to see and appreciate
the subject matter of the image.
After painstaking work in creating the best possible digital image from a photograph, the printing process begins.
That process includes selection of the right paper (e.g., glossy, luster, matte, semi-gloss), from a ready supply of Hahnemuhle or Epson professional fine-art photo paper. Each digital image is further modified, to fit the selected paper size of paper, and to take advantage of the unique characteristics of the chosen paper. The actual printing process involves matching of the selected image to the profile of the paper itself, as the appearance of a photograph can vary considerably, depending on the selected paper.
Once the photograph has been printed, it is very carefully inspected, to ensure that it meets expectations. If it is necessary to modify the image to meet those expectations, then the print settings will be adjusted until the final product is as good as it can be.
All of those steps are done in-studio, one photograph at a time. Once the image has been printed, it is ready for framing. Sometimes the framing is done in-studio, but mounting and laminating are delegated to an outside source, as is custom framing and matting.