Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate. In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter. I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Even for home printing a (preferably hardware) calibrated monitor and soft proofing is such a godsend. Having a print right in one go saves a ton of money and (arguably more important) frustration.
Amazing detail in this image, even before you added your stylistic choices, Kyle. Which one of your beasts was responsible for this image? The name of the print type of #3 is virtually my real surname. It always makes my ears prick up when I hear it. 😅
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs). I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome. Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
Although judging from the video might not be very precise, these prints seem pretty consistent, especially considering only light proofing. The detail seen in those close up shots looks amazing on that large print, surely there's plenty more room for up-scaling when needed (which is always good to know, especially for shooters with smaller formats or under 50+ ultra-giga mp sensors). But most importantly, the image looks great itself. Lovely results, I wish I had such a lab in my country (most are confused when you ask them for a proper profile, and wish to prepare the file yourself).
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
Interesting correlation between physical size, DPI and file size around 7 minutes in, hadn't quite thought about it like that below. Any thoughts on factory calibrated monitors like the Dell UltraSharp that has its own display manager and loads different profiles based on application?
Hey Steve, unfortunately I don't have any experience with the Dell Ultrasharp. Only this LG and a BenQ before this. Both which I calibrated as shown in the video.
I used to print a lot some years ago (at home) but the ink got so expensive and the printer head clogged. Tried a few labs… nothing great yet. I’ll check out Whitewall!
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
ive really been meaning to print my own work. its seems daunting and I never wanted to print work that desert look good at all and I wouldn't want to print anymore. ever sense you posted a video a while back about the importance of printing, its been on my mind. here's a sign that I really ought to get rollin. thanks for showing us how to print our work in the best way! also I think you can rent calibrators so that makes it easier to do that.
it's so worth it. I had the same concerns, so I ordered some super cheap Walmart prints (like a couple bucks each for 8x10). That gave me some of the reward of seeing your work on your wall, and made me really want to get higher quality prints that I do now :)
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
If you have an enormous number of pixels/inch from your original digital file, or digital film scan, to make a print with 300ppi, that's one thing. But how are you factoring viewing distance of the print into the final resolution of the file you manipulate in Photoshop. If you're viewing a 16x24 inch print from 24-30 inches away, you won't notice any difference in effective resolution if you print at 200ppi or 300ppi. I'm really glad you included this in your video.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results. And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
I was apprenticed back in 1996 in the trade of PrePress. It's not photography but was the part of the print trade that scanned transparencies on drum scanners and prepared artworks for printing. We would scan the image to the size it was printing at and to the resolution that correlated to the lpi (lines per inch) it printed at. Kept simply, if the job printed at 150 lpi, we scanned the images at 300 dpi. Anything more than that was a waste as the RIP would down sample to the output resolution and anything less would mean less quality. Taking a file and doubling it's dimenions meant halving its resolution and halving the files dimensions meant doubling it's resolution. I know photoshop can decently resample, but it is guessing. Nothing beats keeping to the dpi/size ratio for the best digital file and also simply supplying a file at a dpi that meets the output capability of the printer.
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
its so true that the last step you can do for your work is enlarging/printing. the same photo hits differently when its on physical photo paper. its so beautiful
I have alwasy wanted to print some of my photos off though i dont feel like they are very good, i am no way near a professional like your self, but often this video has helped an awful lot wih infomation as well as the anxiety of sending photos to be printed, thank you an awful lot Kyle for all of your videos!
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
Such a stunning image. I’ve fairly recently got into home dev which has been great if I ever want quick turnarounds but don’t trust myself for the good stuff! Such useful info here. Thanks.
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to. And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab. Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
Having struggled to come to terms with digital images after years with film - something about a bright, maybe over-contrasty, aggressively sharpened, “in your face” look I find tiring, and a colour ‘thing’ - I think you of all the well known YT photographers have managed to find just the right balance. To the point I’d struggle to see which medium you used for capture whether on screen or, now it seems, in print. Even on acrylic?! I’ve used White Wall several times and love the photos but I still hadn’t mastered your managing to balance tone with saturation and lightness of touch. So this was very useful, thank you. Can’t wait for the book to land!
Really cool to hear that. Thank you! I definitely think both film and digital can look very similar, just a matter of figuring out the best way to get there, which can be tough.
@@KyleMcDougall Coincidentally (either that or I’m obsessed with the issue!) I just posted a comment about a particular ‘look’ available with film on Titania Hopper’s latest video. To do with softness, edges OOF areas and grain rather than colour this time. To save time I’ll paste it below if of any interest… That look wouldn’t suit a lot of your work, such as the clean, wide atmospheric look of your south west US images for example, but maybe some weather related atmospheric, moody Welsh landscapes? Perhaps monochromatic… “I often wonder what it is about film that appeals to me more than digital, when people (and software post processing) ‘say’ one can replicate the other. But every now and then I see an image that explains… look at a stilled view of Gordon Parks fashion shot at c.3’05”. The way the grain adds to the softness is beautiful. It adds to the beauty. And digital noise never looks like that. Obviously it’s not relevant or suitable for all images or purposes but the lack of detail, sharpness, dynamic range is a positive here rather than a negative and the way out of focus areas and edges blend with and appear from film grain is a lovely tool to have.”
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
Great Video Kyle - Can I ask, what monitors do you use / what would you look for in a monitor; for example 100% sRGB / Adobe RGB. I'm looking for an alternative to the standard BenQ monitors.
Hey Mark, I'm using the LG Ultrafine 5K. I've been very happy with it. It's a glossy screen, which is nice for web stuff. Still works fine for print as well, even though a matt would be better. But it's done the job really well. I'd recommend looking for something that covers AdobeRGB.
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
Hi Kyle. Been using whitewall for around 8years. Nice to see some print examples on paper I haven’t used yet. One tip I saw recently about the high pass sharpening is to desaturate the layer before applying the high pass. This avoids any colour shifts. I found that some reds and oranges can shift a bit with high pass if you don’t desaturate first.
Hey Kyle. Do you do any raw pre-sharpening in LR before you export to PS? From what I've read it seems like front-end sharpening of raw files is a useful addition to workflow. Interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
These look great, Kyle. I've been a major fan of the presentation you chose for the acrylic, pairing it in a sleek black frame. Just looks so clean and modern, though I struggle to get away from a more classical approach, with a thick border and a black frame. Hmm.
The finished acrylic looked absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for taking us through those steps, I learned so much - I may have to watch this vid again! Cheers Kyle 😊
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Awesome Video!
Thanks for the tips and I'd love to own that print!
wanted to print my work as well this helped thanks
Awesome shot ❤
many thanks for this video Kyle!
Congrats on 100K subs ❤. Commenting to get an awesome print
That image is awesome
Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
I would love to have a piece of yours in my home, Kyle! Keep up the good work ;)
Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
thank you for this video. very informative and can't wait to use this information in my printing.
thanks for the info , great watch
absolutely outstanding
Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
No joke, this is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen in a while. Super timely for me, thanks so much!
Happy to hear that. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing man!!! So many things I've never thought about!!!
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
Thanks, Alasdair.
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate.
In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter.
I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
Perfect level of detail with the information provided. Much appreciated! What do you look out for when adjusting the radius?
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
I've just started printing my photos and I've been using Whitewall. This was an incredibly valuable video. I'll watch again and again!
Cheers, Jim. Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for choosing WhiteWall!
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
Amazing video, I would love that print on my wall🎉🎉
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
About to purchase my first 6x7 film camera. Looking forward to using your techniques when I print my first image.
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Always look forward to your videos. Something new to learn every time. Thanks Kyle !
Even for home printing a (preferably hardware) calibrated monitor and soft proofing is such a godsend. Having a print right in one go saves a ton of money and (arguably more important) frustration.
Amazing detail in this image, even before you added your stylistic choices, Kyle. Which one of your beasts was responsible for this image?
The name of the print type of #3 is virtually my real surname. It always makes my ears prick up when I hear it. 😅
Cheers, Michael. This was actually with a Sony A7RII and Contax Zeiss 35mm lens.
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
Awesome! I’d like to have one of those on my wall
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs).
I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome.
Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
Although judging from the video might not be very precise, these prints seem pretty consistent, especially considering only light proofing. The detail seen in those close up shots looks amazing on that large print, surely there's plenty more room for up-scaling when needed (which is always good to know, especially for shooters with smaller formats or under 50+ ultra-giga mp sensors). But most importantly, the image looks great itself. Lovely results, I wish I had such a lab in my country (most are confused when you ask them for a proper profile, and wish to prepare the file yourself).
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
Love the image color contrast - the warm colors of the building vs. the cold colors of the clouds
I am actually planning on printing some of my photos for the very first time! So this info is VERY USEFUL! Thanks Kyle!
Very welcome!
Great information. I find that a lot of the time it is actually harder to prep a file for sending out rather than printing it yourself.
I've been using a tweaked version of your workflow for a while and it works great!
Excellent tutorial. Would love to win one of these prints!
Glad i watched this since i was having trouble with sizing my images for my print service at university
Watched it all, 4 times. Have it saved on my learning list, I print some myself but there are quite a few improvements I can learn from here.
Always a good day when a new Kyle vid drops!
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
Cheers, Adrian. Glad you enjoyed!
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
Cheers, Drew! Glad you found this one helpful.
A lot of great information, I haven’t printed anything yet and this is very helpful.
Your prints look great Kyle!! Thanks for sharing all the important info!!
A lot of great tip 👌🏻. Very helpful and saved for later reference 😇.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻☺️.
This was such a genuinely useful video! Thank you for being so thorough and not skipping over any step of the process.
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve been trying to get smart on the best ways to print my work and then your video comes out a few days later. Thank you for the info!
Greetings from Osaka, Japan! Thanks for the inspiration!
Interesting correlation between physical size, DPI and file size around 7 minutes in, hadn't quite thought about it like that below. Any thoughts on factory calibrated monitors like the Dell UltraSharp that has its own display manager and loads different profiles based on application?
Hey Steve, unfortunately I don't have any experience with the Dell Ultrasharp. Only this LG and a BenQ before this. Both which I calibrated as shown in the video.
I used to print a lot some years ago (at home) but the ink got so expensive and the printer head clogged.
Tried a few labs… nothing great yet. I’ll check out Whitewall!
We are happy to print you photography!
I'm sure you'll be very happy with them, Jason.
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
ive really been meaning to print my own work. its seems daunting and I never wanted to print work that desert look good at all and I wouldn't want to print anymore. ever sense you posted a video a while back about the importance of printing, its been on my mind. here's a sign that I really ought to get rollin.
thanks for showing us how to print our work in the best way! also I think you can rent calibrators so that makes it easier to do that.
it's so worth it. I had the same concerns, so I ordered some super cheap Walmart prints (like a couple bucks each for 8x10). That gave me some of the reward of seeing your work on your wall, and made me really want to get higher quality prints that I do now :)
Like Matt said, definitely worth it. Your photos deserve to be viewed off the screen.
@@KyleMcDougall “your photos deserve to be viewed off the screen” that’s great right there
been following it would be amazing to have your work in my office thank you!!
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
If you have an enormous number of pixels/inch from your original digital file, or digital film scan, to make a print with 300ppi, that's one thing. But how are you factoring viewing distance of the print into the final resolution of the file you manipulate in Photoshop. If you're viewing a 16x24 inch print from 24-30 inches away, you won't notice any difference in effective resolution if you print at 200ppi or 300ppi. I'm really glad you included this in your video.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results.
And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Glad you found it helpful, Ruben!
Thanks for this guide. I feel like I finally slightly understand the photoshop/lightroom printing prep process.
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
I like how your shots seem like a blend of Kodachrome photographers from the 50s/60s combined with modern taste with a more "color graded look".
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
I was apprenticed back in 1996 in the trade of PrePress. It's not photography but was the part of the print trade that scanned transparencies on drum scanners and prepared artworks for printing. We would scan the image to the size it was printing at and to the resolution that correlated to the lpi (lines per inch) it printed at. Kept simply, if the job printed at 150 lpi, we scanned the images at 300 dpi. Anything more than that was a waste as the RIP would down sample to the output resolution and anything less would mean less quality. Taking a file and doubling it's dimenions meant halving its resolution and halving the files dimensions meant doubling it's resolution. I know photoshop can decently resample, but it is guessing. Nothing beats keeping to the dpi/size ratio for the best digital file and also simply supplying a file at a dpi that meets the output capability of the printer.
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Thank you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
its so true that the last step you can do for your work is enlarging/printing. the same photo hits differently when its on physical photo paper. its so beautiful
I have alwasy wanted to print some of my photos off though i dont feel like they are very good, i am no way near a professional like your self, but often this video has helped an awful lot wih infomation as well as the anxiety of sending photos to be printed, thank you an awful lot Kyle for all of your videos!
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOW YOU PRINT. IT WILL HELP ME WITH MY FUTURE PRINTING.
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
Such a stunning image. I’ve fairly recently got into home dev which has been great if I ever want quick turnarounds but don’t trust myself for the good stuff! Such useful info here. Thanks.
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Cheers, Ryan. Glad to hear you've been happy with them.
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to.
And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab.
Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
Just moved into a new house, id love a print for the new living room🤍
Having struggled to come to terms with digital images after years with film - something about a bright, maybe over-contrasty, aggressively sharpened, “in your face” look I find tiring, and a colour ‘thing’ - I think you of all the well known YT photographers have managed to find just the right balance. To the point I’d struggle to see which medium you used for capture whether on screen or, now it seems, in print. Even on acrylic?!
I’ve used White Wall several times and love the photos but I still hadn’t mastered your managing to balance tone with saturation and lightness of touch. So this was very useful, thank you.
Can’t wait for the book to land!
Really cool to hear that. Thank you! I definitely think both film and digital can look very similar, just a matter of figuring out the best way to get there, which can be tough.
@@KyleMcDougall Coincidentally (either that or I’m obsessed with the issue!) I just posted a comment about a particular ‘look’ available with film on Titania Hopper’s latest video. To do with softness, edges OOF areas and grain rather than colour this time. To save time I’ll paste it below if of any interest…
That look wouldn’t suit a lot of your work, such as the clean, wide atmospheric look of your south west US images for example, but maybe some weather related atmospheric, moody Welsh landscapes? Perhaps monochromatic…
“I often wonder what it is about film that appeals to me more than digital, when people (and software post processing) ‘say’ one can replicate the other. But every now and then I see an image that explains… look at a stilled view of Gordon Parks fashion shot at c.3’05”.
The way the grain adds to the softness is beautiful. It adds to the beauty. And digital noise never looks like that. Obviously it’s not relevant or suitable for all images or purposes but the lack of detail, sharpness, dynamic range is a positive here rather than a negative and the way out of focus areas and edges blend with and appear from film grain is a lovely tool to have.”
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
Great Video Kyle - Can I ask, what monitors do you use / what would you look for in a monitor; for example 100% sRGB / Adobe RGB. I'm looking for an alternative to the standard BenQ monitors.
Hey Mark, I'm using the LG Ultrafine 5K. I've been very happy with it. It's a glossy screen, which is nice for web stuff. Still works fine for print as well, even though a matt would be better. But it's done the job really well. I'd recommend looking for something that covers AdobeRGB.
Thanks Kyle, I've never considered LG, but will also look into them. Have a great weekend. Regards.
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
Very cool, and I definitely learned a lot from this! Just need to take the plunge and get one of my own images printed up like this now
I've been getting some images printed recently. It's my first time doing that, so as a beginner these kind of videos are very useful! Cheers Kyle
Hi Kyle. Been using whitewall for around 8years. Nice to see some print examples on paper I haven’t used yet. One tip I saw recently about the high pass sharpening is to desaturate the layer before applying the high pass. This avoids any colour shifts. I found that some reds and oranges can shift a bit with high pass if you don’t desaturate first.
Great tip. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
Thank you for your service to the community!
Wow turned out great in that black frame
another great video - thank you. sharpening for print is such a personal technique and it's very kind of you to share yours.
Hey Kyle. Do you do any raw pre-sharpening in LR before you export to PS? From what I've read it seems like front-end sharpening of raw files is a useful addition to workflow. Interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
Hey Duncan, yep, I always sharpen every image to a 'neutral' standard. Nothing too heavy, just enough that it looks good.
100k!!! So glad for you! You got me back into photography, well deserved!
Thank you!
Your channel is always so calming, informative, and inspiring! thanks for your works!
Such a good breakdown of this process! Invaluable stuff, thank you 🙌🏻
Love the work that you are doing!
Good info. I refurbished an old epson that sat in an attic for 10 years and have been working on making better prints.
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
These look great, Kyle. I've been a major fan of the presentation you chose for the acrylic, pairing it in a sleek black frame. Just looks so clean and modern, though I struggle to get away from a more classical approach, with a thick border and a black frame. Hmm.
Looking forward to testing out my own prints using this method
I’ve been enjoying printing on the canon selphy you recommended. But I hope to do larger prints like this.
Yes this is a lovely device,
Great info and storytelling. I love printing, but it still intimidates me and I always feel like I'm not quite getting the best version of the image.
All the prints are great. Thanks for sharing Kyle
The finished acrylic looked absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for taking us through those steps, I learned so much - I may have to watch this vid again! Cheers Kyle 😊