Print Decisions
Having received a courseware mail advising us to talk to our new Print Technician with regard to paper and print choices. Whilst reviewing the prints I had already done another of my tutors and I were having a discussion about the number of images to show, and which images would fit into a set. We both agreed that either 3 or 6 prints would be a good number. There were 3 or 4 images that seemed obvious choices to us both, but to find 6 was more of a struggle. On the flip side, using three of the images meant choosing one to leave out. We decided on the three images below, and would get some test strips printed to better judge the images blown up to full size.
Image taken by Chris Arrondelle - Canon 5d mkII - Sigma 50mm
Image taken by Chris Arrondelle - Canon 5d mkII - Sigma 50mm
Image taken by Chris Arrondelle - Canon 5d mkII - Sigma 50mm
This black and white image and the image above were the two images that were in debate. Image taken by Chris Arrondelle - Canon 5d mkII - Sigma 50mm
I made arrangements to meet with the print technician, but in the mean time I had had second thoughts about the middle image. I felt that the image below tied the two portraits together nicely, and reflected my developing narrative well.
Image taken by Chris Arrondelle - Canon 5d mkII - Sigma 50mm
I had long felt that I wanted to print these images on an Art Paper, and having done a little research I really wanted to look at Hahnemühle Photo-Rag, so I was very pleased when I was told that is was available to me on campus. We discussed paper choices, but not only did our Print Technician think the images would look good on the Photorag, but in fact recommended it. He was free to do some test prints, and I had print ready files so we went to the print room. One of my tutors was in the print room, so I was able to get live feedback as we went through the process of testing. I knew he was reticent about my choice for the middle image BUT this was a decision (to take some control of my project) and I would live with the consequences (if any). The images looked great on the test strips, and the paper, I had the files on my hard-drive, and the Print Technician wanted to know what I wanted to do next, so I resized the files and handed them over to be printed up to full size the next day.