Are you wasting time and money printing your own photos? How it's benefitted my photography

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2 ай бұрын

Photo printing isn't for everyone. Some of the many ways I feel my own photography has benefitted from learning to print my work. Is it worthwhile for you?
From composition to colour management, simplicity and choosing the right moment. How printing influenced the progression of my photography.
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@brianw3822 2 ай бұрын

Since I was a teen I have been printing my own photos on and off. First in the darkroom and then with printers. I feel it is at least 1/2 of the creative process. You can spend a lot of time trying to get that perfect effect. You can also spend a lot of time and never get it. What fun!

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I enjoyed darkroom printing as well, but it the ease of digital which really got me experimenting.

@RS-Amsterdam 2 ай бұрын

And now you are 11 and still like it ? 😂

@brianw3822 2 ай бұрын

@@RS-Amsterdam 61

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

11? - I'm 64

@RS-Amsterdam 2 ай бұрын

One of the better print channels on YT. Thanks for sharing

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - I really appreciate that!

@charleslaplanche7673 Ай бұрын

Hi Keith, I started photography 50 years ago, at that time my model was Cartier Bresson and it was unthinkable for me to crop an image. Still today, I have a bad conscience at cropping an image, it's like cheating. I know this is stupid, but I can't help and I can't stop thinking that a cropped picture is less valuable (this only apply to my pictures). I attended a master class of William Klein and he told me to put my black frame somewhere... For me I can only value a printed picture, the screens are often giving a wow effect and a picture might look good on one screen and not on others. Of course a screen can give you a good idea of the picture, but the final verdict will always be the print. Thank you again for your help and have a great day

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Thanks - glad it's of interest!

@lee-annecarpenter6844 Ай бұрын

Thank you for another fascinating video. I love to print my own photos and one day I’ll get a large print done when I take a photo worth spending the effort on lol! Really good food for thought regarding which photos work better printed large/small and why! I once made the mistake of getting a sunset photo I liked made into a glass clock and was very disappointed with the results. Now i have a much better understanding of why that was! Keep up the great work!

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Thanks - glad it was of interest!

@mikemansfield9668 2 ай бұрын

It's my favourite hobby. There was a steep learning curve about 4 years ago, including reading your articles on Northlight. Now I make my own profiles with an i1Studio, so I can use 3rd party inks and photo papers at will to keep the cost down. I'm only a hobbyist , not a professtional but what I print for myself friends and family are always great from Lightroom and Qimage. My printer is a Canon iP 8750, so not high spec. but it is good enough for my needs. Thanks for your videos as well Keith, they're always very informative

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - glad it was of interest.

@meececa 2 ай бұрын

I'm returning to printing after a long hiatus working on other things. Never stopped taking photos so i now have a backlog. Last printer was 24" roll model, i struggled with the problem of "what do i do with all these prints!? But now, years later, I'm very happy that I made prints and still enjoy them. Your vids are catching me up. :) So, thank you!

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Excellent - glad to have helped

@PatrickS536 Ай бұрын

I only do photography as a hobby. Printing myself is the icing on the cake. It's better to hold the pictures in your hand than to see them on a monitor. Yesterday I made my first print on a Hahnemühle William Turner. It's unbelievably good. In the end, printing by myself is cheaper with my Pixma Pro 200 I would have to pay around 20€ for a DinA3 print in a photo lab

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Yes - that 'real print' feeling is not to be missed ;-)

@tripleseven6672 2 ай бұрын

Since I’ve started printing my own stuff it had made me pay better attention to my editing. I feel as if I have gotten much better results.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that's part of it for me too

@timbersavage90 Ай бұрын

thanks for all the info you have given its helped me a great deal

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Glad to help - thanks

@MrNanootje 2 ай бұрын

Just spot on.... that's why i love photography. Thank you for sharing the enjoyment, from taking the picture till printing it.... especially printing it large.❤

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@c64club 2 ай бұрын

Just putting mu first individual exhibition set in frames. All printed in home. Thanks for your articles and video suplements. Worth the expense and work. Finally I get quality I wanted.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Excellent - hope it goes well

@c64club Ай бұрын

@@KeithCooper Went well. Not only the exhibition itself, but I was also asked by few people to print for them. Large mattes with deep blacks and excelent color rentition - there is lack of good printing service offering this media type, especially if one expects a lab guy to do something more than Ctrl+P. Printing can make you better photographer, for sure. But also being a photographer allows you to make better prints, as you can adjust to author's vision. If everything go good way, I will probably buy something 24". Do you have some experience with varnishing your prints or covering them with something other than "gloss optimizer"? Tried few techniques I have used for bichrome gums and cyanotypes, and now I have pefect dilution of Damar resin. It can protect deep pigment blacks, make them even a bit deeper, and - to some extent - choose to only protect colors or make them a litle more vibrant, with side effect of "1/8 gloss " (instead of half gloss) and reducing gloss differential to zero or neglegible.

@jamesmgreen15 2 ай бұрын

Always interesting to hear your take.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@crustyoldman11 2 ай бұрын

I took a risk and got a 2nd hand Epson P600 a few months ago, I'm not sure how much it's benefitted my photography but it has definitely made me more attentive in my editing, the leap in quality between a digital image and an A3 print means you have to pay a lot more attention.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I think it encourages a different way of looking at images

@popularzero 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate your video. Recently started printing on a Canon Pixma G620 and have to say it's really helped me appreciate my photography more. I've found your videos quite helpful in learning how to print as well. I'd definitely recommend printing to anyone that can afford to because it really does help seeing your own photography in different ways than you would just looking at your work on a Screen. I also would encourage anyone that can review their pictures on a larger screen to not cull images until you see them on at least a 27" screen if not larger. I prefer to review my pictures on the largest screen I can even going as far as hooking my computer up to my 65" TV sometimes since some things really do only work at larger scales.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - the TV thing is an excellent idea. Much easier and cheaper for most people than making prints that big! ;-)

@deraldart 2 ай бұрын

excellent. thanks so much. my fave type of your videos. kinda the why as much as the how. i really liked your ideas on how much larger prints are very different for small prints.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! I do like to try and mix the content a bit.

@Tubeytime 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant information. Thank you for sharing!

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@paulmorrall5719 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Keith great video, still learning so much

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Glad it's of interest.

@PhotoArtBrussels 2 ай бұрын

Keith; maybe silly, i like printing and i do it often. But what to do with the big prints? Do you frame them? Use a backing? Is it hard to manage? Some ideas are welcome. The way people react to their portrait on paper is far more emotional. For now i use a Canon Pro-300 when i print myself; for bigger prints i go to a specialized lab. My biggest print i had made is 1.2meter x 1.2meter; it is a portrait in B/W. That size the image is spectacular.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

That desk you see me at is a chart drawer. The drawers go back the full depth of the table. I keep some of my better prints there - along with lots of A1 sheets of archival tissue. I've also 20+ A2/A1 locations around the house which get rotated and refreshed every so often - when the 'hanging committee' tells me a change is reuired ;-)

@PhotoArtBrussels 2 ай бұрын

@@KeithCooper Thanks for the rotation idea!

@AngeloTrotta 2 ай бұрын

Interesting in my limited experience with advertising looking at a screen version of a still ad and printing it and view in context of how it actually would be seen was a big difference.... That feedback loop caused a lot of revisions of the original as viewed on a monitor.... Thanks for your KZfaq stuff

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - glad it's of interest.

@willkron 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@JohnPepp Ай бұрын

I love printing my photographs especially on professional paper. Looks so much better than on the screen.

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Yes, makes a difference

@carstenhjort9993 2 ай бұрын

A really inspiring video Keith! I only print A3+ size on my Pro-300. When I want bigger prints chromaluxe is normally the primary choice. By the way I am a nature photographer from Norway.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - I do appreciate that I'm quite lucky having all those big printers (with ink and paper) to test.

@lynsmith1096 2 ай бұрын

Good video Keith

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@johnvaleanbaily246 2 ай бұрын

I get a great deal of personal satisfaction in hanging a few of my better photographs on the wall. I'm not interested in selling or showing, just the satisfaction of a picture well taken and to be appreciated, by me.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Yes - certainly covers ones hanging in my office!

@johnpollock6996 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps money Can't Buy Me Love (Lennon-McCartney allusion intended), but it sure can help in getting big prints. A couple of years ago, after watching numerous of your videos, I bought an Epson P700. I eventually started getting the color management right, or at least highly acceptable, but it took no time to realize that 13X19 can be disappointing. Being a hobbyist, it didn't feel right spending for larger, but buyer's remorse is a constant. When the P700 buys the farm I may need counseling to overcome A2 envy.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps you should start reading my P5300 articles and videos now, in preparation ;-)

@LDBecker 2 ай бұрын

Hi - always enjoy your videos... At 22:53 in this video, in the part about the Wells Cathedral steps, it's probably a KZfaq thing, but the image on the screen is much warmer than the image on paper. Are you showing a soft-proof on the screen, or is it just that way out of Photoshop? I've struggled with that over the years of printing. Getting the tone right is hard. If I can get it right on-screen in ImagePrint, it usually matches the print ok (on my old Epson 4880 and now Canon Pro-2600) - but I'm sometimes surprised at the difference.

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - sorry, this is purely a screen setup and video recording/editing issue. KZfaq just compounds the issues. B&W colours in many videos have a 'loose at best' connection with what I see in front of me. ;-) It's partly because I shot a video in the conservatory in daylight the other day, and need to re-balance all my video setup

@nilsmuhlenbruch7926 2 ай бұрын

Hi Keith, thanks for sharing all this valuable information. I was wondering if you have a solution for a software/driver set up problem i have with my Epson SC-P900 printer. The printer has been installed and i can print out of Photoshop but the special Epson Print layout application does not recognize my printer although my Mac os says it is working fine. I have multiple times installed everything and i am fully updated on Mac Sonoma, any clues? Sorry to bother, It should be a question for Epson but they can't be reached for questions like this one unfortunately👎. Cheers, keep up the good work!

@KeithCooper 2 ай бұрын

Are you absolutely positive that the driver installed is not the airprint one?

@findus605 Ай бұрын

Thanks for all the information you provide on printing etc.One area that i am pulling my hair out about is trying to get my greens on print correct, regardless of what i do the print comes out a washed out greeny yellow. I have recently purchased a Canon pro 200 i use genuine canon ink paper and canon profiles ????. Please help.

@KeithCooper Ай бұрын

Have you printed a known good test image? This shows whether the print setup is working Also get a copy of the Canon PPL software to do it. So many things it could be without nailing it down a bit more... See my PRO-200 review [the main written one] www.northlight-images.co.uk/canon-pro-200-printer-review/