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I recently read an article written by hospice workers who said the number one regret that people have in their lives is not living their own authentic life in favor of playing it safe and going with the herd. Do what your gut tells you to do, enjoy the process, and don't worry about what the world thinks. That is success. That is living life well. This is me, whispering in your ear: go for it! ;-)

Congratulations Alex! The prints look great. Your enthusiasm for photography is an inspiration for others.

Love your enthusiasm, its even rubbing off on me to start something and get some of my photographs printed.

The neon looks like something at Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Glad this brings joy to you.

The way to go. What inspires me the most about what you are doing, is the fact that you are sharing so much of your own education and experiences. For those of us that missed the bus regarding formal photography education. Pointing us towards influential photographers, past and present. Supporting you and what you are doing is a absolute pleasure.

I LOVE how excited you are Alex!!! That's awesome!!

Only three years???!!! I thought you were a seasoned, crusty old veteran from the KZfaq trenches. Love your stuff. ❤❤

Alex, I have never seen you so happy. ❤❤❤❤❤

Wish you the very best for this new year and new adventure! You run a very unique and precious channel in this world obsessed with gear! Thanks you very much for that!

I get your excitement. I'm about to have a large print done of an unusual shot of the Sydney Opera House for a client.

Fabulous, it’s been great being along for the journey and good luck with the next chapter.

WoW, I love your work, beautiful , cool prints..Good luck with the sales, exciting..

Living in the Baltimore area, it is really fun to see your prints. Your rich color and contrast are exceptional.

I m photographing for 3 decades as a hobbyist n only now beginning to put out my work on insta n just displayed in an exhibition. Ur videos r quite interesting, often inspiring n almost always informative n enjoyable. Thank you.

I would love it if you did a video about the different types of paper, printing processes, etc. for anyone interested in making prints.

It's an awesome feeling seeing your own work in print, i get to see every image i sell before it goes to the purchaser and it takes me until the day after picking it up before i package it for postage lol

Love your honesty.

Thanks Alex I enjoy your videos, point of view and the route you have chosen, more power to you.

The Prints look great! A nice size! We don't need murals.. Amazing what a phone can do! Congrats and Good luck!

Great video, as always. I noticed you did something I often do: wear protective gloves, then lean on the worktop where there's bound to be a blob of jam or butter that got missed when cleaning... 🤣🤣

It IS a GREAT step forward! Good luck to you Alex!

For all the commentary and criticism within photography, the approval/disapproval, likes and dislikes, dos and the don'ts, the rules etc, to see you hopping excitedly, thrilled at the sight of your own work says to me....'Home run!" Well done Alex .

I’m glad to see you doing this. I really enjoy your work. Welcome to my world! :-) But one reality of being a fine art photographer is that you have to have the courage to create the work you truly believe in. Sometimes people are going to hate it. And that’s okay. Sometimes people are going to love it. And that’s not a time to get very satisfied. But stick to you vision over the long haul. That’s the secret. :-)

Great, love to see you putting your wok out there. All the best

Man I love you 😊 You are so nervous, so compassionate and soooo authentic. Hope you sell heaps of your pictures. Big big fan of you and your channel.

Journey onward.

I am happy for you! you look like a kid on a candy store! I have been following you for a while and I greatly appreciate your advice and passion for photography, good luck with this new path in your journey and yes! the prints look gorgeous.

Looking forward to browsing in the store.

You are a trully inspiration!, Thank you for what you do.

Sir, I really love this story you tell. You are a man that has started off with dreams and of expectations to be as great as your idols. With time you were worn down and grew to accept that you would never fulfil your dreams. Through your passion, knowledge and honesty you have been able to celebratize yourself. You are the embodiment of a good piece of visual history and these images show this. Well done! This is a nice story and that is what counts.

Alex! Congrats!! You are a great inspiration to me!

Such great enthusiasm!!

I wish on times the public/customers would get how we feel about our craft. It's not just really good or amazing images they are buying. They are also getting a part of us. Our hard earned feelings and emotions that we put into our work. We put everything, even our soul's into what we create and hope it will bring joy to many for yrs to come.

Hi Alex, what i love about your channel is that your content is always positive and you have some great guests on your channel that we get to enjoy. Your videos help us viewers as well, we do get a lot out of your videos.Your prints will look really nice in a photographers Mancave, whether a professional or an enthusiast photographer. Don't worry about being nervous it means that you care, and you do really care about your photography passion, it shows in your channel. I wish you all the best luck Alex you deserve all the success. Thanks for sharing your great news 👏😃

Congrats Alex...the prints look fantastic! I'm excited for your launch.

I'm very happy for this new step of yours, well done! 👏👏👏

They look great. Good luck in the future 🙂

BTW, I have had prints from Print Space and White Wall (always excellent) but only for my own walls or when I knew a sale was guaranteed. For prints offered before buyers I moved to my own colour calibrated prints using a Canon Pro 10 printer and tbh the quality was pretty much indistinguishable, the only issue bring the size limits. For large prints info farm out the work.

I‘m excited for you! Hope to do this myself someday. 😊

It’s an exciting feeling I’ve felt myself. All the best in your new endeavor!

The right move at the right time it seems! Looks like great printing of very nice shots :-)Got three prints of my hobby-work today, and can relate.

Really pleased for you, good on ya.

“I hesitate to use the word art” so humble! Looks like art to me 😀

Printing my own work has been transformative for my photography. Your excitement is indeed infectious. Well done and the best of luck with your sales.

Man, I’m glad you are growing on your career, hope you get it sold to the people that appreciate them. Personally I’ve dedicated the last +5 years of my life on to improving my photography technique and I’m also starting the challenge of present my art to the world. Wish you lots of success man, been following your advice for quite a while.

Go on and say it.. photogs always undercut themselves.. THATS ART

Congratulation Alex!!!

That really is awesome!

Love your honesty that comes through in you sharing your journey. Thanks. It’s interesting that I was watching Scott French’s video on selling prints, just yesterday and was taking inspiration to follow in his footsteps. Intact I had asked him a question creating mailing list and the need for a social media following, and received his response just before a saw this video from you. Synchronicity shall I say! 😊

I love your work and your channel and I'm happy for you. Good going, sir.

Your enthusiasm is so infectious Alex. I’m gonna sound like a weird stalker of sorts when I say I have you to thank for igniting my interest to get back into photography, not only that but with my own project using an iPhone and even your style intrigued me enough to get me exploring. I hope you have success in selling your prints, you truly deserve it!! The next step for me is to concrete my style and direction in mono or colour and, more challenging, to create a few zines. The fact I work on an iPad to edit could cause problems with colour matching but hopefully it’ll be possible. Keep up the good work fella. It’s an enjoyable journey you share with us.

Sounds like a great project. Good luck with your endeavours

This is so interesting. The level of satisfaction we feel having accomplished our own art vs. delivering a commissioned work are very different. I’m an old graphic designer that have spent a large portion of my life producing artwork for specific needs and clients. It got its own level of satisfaction to deliver on demand but nothing compares with completing something that comes from within ourselves.

Lol… I absolutely loved your energy and enthusiasm. Well done! Don’t overthink this, I’m sure you will do well.

Thanks so much for sharing this with us all, I can not wait to do the same. Thanks for the inspiration and allowing us to join in on the excitement!

Don't be nervous you do amazing work sir.

Good luck!!

Beautiful !

I am pleasantly surprised how well 12mp iphone 14 pro max jpg photos print at up to 22 x 25 (Canon Pro 1000). Surprising detail, colors that pop and there is that "oh wow" factor when admiring a larger reflective print.

Smooth Matte or Baryta paper. I tried both on some studio prints and found the Matte to have such an elegant velvet finish (and less expensive too). Inkjet over traditional print wins. So much depth and presence. With your viewer base you will most likely do well. So much fun to see physical prints.

Congratulations Alex on your newest endeavor, your images look great on print and should sell to the right cliental.

These are great. I'm glad the nervous wait was worth it. I like to believe that hard work pays off mostly. I love your other work in this video also. My friend says 'who takes a photo of a men's urinal'? I told her, real photographers do!🥰

I’m really enjoying printing my photos too, and it has taught me a whole load of things. I do A3 and they are something else! So very different from screen shots or people swiping through their iPads. It’s not a cheap process and so far I only have 7 mounted and wrapped ready for sale. I’m hoping some will sell in the run up to Christmas but who knows. I’d like to sell them just to fund the cost of making a really large print even though my friends tell me people won’t have the wall space. I’ve come a long way and your videos, knowledge and enthusiasm have been a big part of my journey. Keep going, and GOOD LUCK 🤩

Very cool. I can certainly understand just throwing random stuff out there. I'm certainly guilty of that. I think I have to do something that's for everyone, but I really need to focus on what's for me and my vision. I'm not saying that I want to stop taking the photos of the random stuff. I don't because I enjoy it. But I also know that I want to work toward something and I got some much needed inspiration from a couple of day trips to shoot over the weekend and this video of yours. Best of luck to you!

Alex managed to - at least in part - convert me from a pan man to a square. Although I realize that sometimes either the motive itself or the targeted presentation environment demands vertical format I never liked it and as far as square format was concerned, I had simply ignored it. Today, I look at square format as almost being a separate art form. On my run-of-the-mill days I do my 16:9 or 3:2 horizontals as usual. On my really creative day, now and again, I switch everything over to square. Much more demanding and almost a different world. Alex's square stuff is excellent. I wish him all the luck in the world and lots of fun looking at his prints. Square could however be a niche market.

Congratulations!! The print looks great from the video! You mention that the lab gave you a size suggestion based on your phone model. Can I ask what phone you use? This would help in deciding what size I can print some of my own work. Cheers!

informative video

All the talk about KZfaq and Alex got his MyTube

Good JOB Buddy!

Thanks for sharing.

Interesting, I was just visiting theprintspace earlier today and then this video pops up here on YT. They offer a free monitor calibration so I am going to go back next week and haul my Mac Mini and monitor down there for that service before deciding on a few test prints at a later date. There is something wonderful about seeing your photos as a quality print over viewing them on a monitor, or worse, seeing them on a tiny phone screen.

Congratulations on the prints! I'm thinking that the "putting MYself out there" is the difference between a job and artistry. Photography that isn't putting yourself out there seems more like a job than a passion.

I just printed a portrait today on canvas. I did it big, A1. It came our perfectly. Its so nice to hold it and feel it compared to seeing it on a screen. Btw, your photo of the border collie at the beginning of the video is so beautiful.

Congrats on your new adventure. Your sharing has inspired me to move forward on my own journey of sharing my photos. Just baby steps for now. Just wanted you to know how important this video has been to me. Thanks.

Those prints do look great, and I love your style of work. Good luck with the selling. (Watching this while fulfilling a customer's print-order as we speak!). Could you perhaps explain the term "Giclee"? It's a heavily used term and I'm not sure there's a common definition. Are we talking about an inkjet print on fine-art paper? (e.g Hahnemuele Cotton Rag), as opposed to a regular C-type that you might get from a lab? Also, for the iPhone pics (assuming it's a 12 megapixel phone) - 4000 px on the long edge - is the printer upscaling the image, or printing at less than 300 dpi resolution to get the larger sizes? I'm never sure which is the better approach.

Congratulations!!!! Love your work and you inspire me. What kind of paper are these on and what are the sizes of print? Where will you be selling these from?

If these prints have just a bit of your passion and soul in them. Then they gonna be on many peoples wall 👍🏽. Thanks for all your content here on KZfaq. We need some balance in the force with all the gear heads and pixel peepers everywhere.

Excellent Alex, couldn't agree more with the appearance of Giclée, for me it conveys the impact that I was looking for, possibly for my personal impression that the image is more artistic or graphic as opposed to an actual photographic process with photo paper. Would love to hear how you get on with marketing these images.

Fantastic to see your work in print. People need to do this a lot more :) I would like to thank you regarding your video on recommending a few books. I'm reading Letting Go of the Camera by Brooks Jensen. Love it, once again, thank you so much for the recommendation and good look with your print sales :)

Wow! Thanks for this one Alex. I am very impressed on the size of the prints coming out of an iPhone. Out of curiosity do you shoot on normal mode or the RAW format of the iphone? Also, it is also a dream of mine to eventually (soon I hope) to start putting myself out there and try selling my photos. This could definitely be a topic to share your experience with us in a near future. Thanks for everything you are doing and the quality work you put on KZfaq.

I know just how you feel! About a month or so ago, after several friends made "I'd hang that on my wall" noises at me, I chose two color images and two B&W and ordered 8X10 prints from one of the labs used by a photo website provider I was considering using. I was very pleased with the results, but not having wall space to hang them, I figured out my costs, added a profit percentage and offered them to my social media circle on a first to send me e-payment gets it basis. All four sold in under two hours, so I put my profit towards a one year subscription to that web provider and set up a storefront. If it proves unsustainable, and I'm fully aware that it might, at least I gave it a try. Thanks, as always, for your content.

Good luck.

Alex, you’re a dark horse. Your photos are really good. On print they really do look like a different photograph. Don’t sell them as we may never see you again lol. You are one of my top three KZfaq channels about photography👍

Nice one Alex. They look the mutts nuts 😃 The older I get the more 'take it or leave it' I have become. Not in a churlish way of course. The surprising thing is that people have responded to my artistic confidence and in turn, it seems to give them the confidence to trust their own taste in art. Keep doing your thing mate.

The first 15 minutes of this video, Alex went from a middle-age man to a 12 year old boy that got a bike for Christmas

All I can say Alex it’s about time to. I’ve been hoping you would produce a book ever since I started watching your KZfaq posts. I will be buying prints because they are the type of images I have been aspiring to create myself for years with no success. Still waiting for a book, but single prints will do for now…Thanks Anthony

It's got to be a tough business all around. So many creative people with quality output trying to get our attention and...convince us to open our wallets for them. I gave up years ago. No longer have an interest in trying. But your work is worth giving it a go, and with some effort and confidence. Cheers and the best of good things to you, Alex.

Alex, I regret that I don't collect prints (my walls are full). But for what it's worth several of the prints you included in the video appeal to me very much. That isn't an everyday occurrence. I think you'll have great success.

Congratulations Alex,as always keep up the good work.I was wondering if you have posted any thoughts on how to introduce children/young adults to photography.Thank you.

The way you lay that out on your counter, I live in such a dusty environment/climate that I shudder to think of doing that here. As you might imagine, keeping dust off sensors is a constant battle here, one is really reluctant to change lenses where I am.

For years i have watched you talking about other people's images. I always thought why does he not show his own work. Now you are and they will look fantastic on walls. Where they should be. Go for it . Not going to wish you good luck i am that confident it will be a success .

Your images are really beautiful I love the compositions. It would be hard to make them look cheap. As far as paper choices go, I find that the matte surface papers do look amazing when you print on them but the quality that you love about them is completely covered up when you put glass in front of it. It does help if you use anti-reflective glass but it is not the same as an unprotected image. There's going to be some loss you might choose to just spray them and leave them unglazed. Depends on what kind of compromise you want to make. Also I think you'll be a lot happier when you start printing your own images. Then you will really get what you want

Don't be nervous. Print more. Your work is wonderful.

There's nothing like seeing one's work as a large print.

Great prints an all, but my question is how you keep the kitchen so tidy?

Congratulations, Alex. Your enthusiasm is obvious and the content of your channel is absorbing. Keep printing your own work and I wish you all the success.

I do not know which gets me more excited these days, waiting for your weekly Email to Arrive or Unboxing videos, 😅. Are you familiar with Keith Cooper, you might like to look at his, I made a print from an Iphone photo video on youtube.

Good luck, Alex. By selecting your style of photography as shown here will appeal to a certain demographic and you just need to see how it goes. Don't go with a too big a choice. If you are taking advice from successfully sellers, that's a good start.

Giclee paper did you say? That's Fine Art Photograph paper or canvas. Great picture, nice and clean, very sharp. Put it under UV glass to protect it from harmful sunlight.