I recently received the wonderful opportunity to display my work in a gallery at the new showroom and museum at Canon's headquarters in Shimomaruko here in Tokyo, and today I'm going to share details including the creation of my prints, how they were treated in...
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain.[smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep589.mp3"]The...
Today I welcome Curtis Hustace to the show to talk about his thirty year career as a commercial photographer and to walk us through some of the techniques he uses when creating his beautiful still life photography.[smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep567.mp3"]As this was an ad-lib conversation, we don't have a...
As I mentioned in a recent post, my old large format printer has given up the ghost, so I've just had a new Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4000 installed, and today I'm going to walk you through some of the key new features and provide my opinion of...
Today I'm going to share a simple yet sometimes overlooked technique for decurling photographs printed on roll paper. This is not a difficult thing to imagine, but a quick search shows me that few people have actually illustrated posts on this topic, so as usual,...
Last week I got my hands on a roll each of two new types of fine art paper from my friends at Breathing Color, Pura Bagasse Smooth and Pura Bagasse Textured, so today we're going to take a look at these excellent new offerings.[smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep484.mp3"]First...
Many times I've been asked how I sign my fine art prints, and having received an email recently from listener Tanya Mattson from Pennsylvania, USA, I decided to go into a little bit of detail on this in today's episode. Apparently Tanya and her husband...
My new Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6350 large format printer was delivered on August 13, 2010. The first thing to note with this printer is it's big! Not huge as far as really large format printers, like the 44" or 60" models, but still, with the ability...
Some time ago I saw a Luminous Landscape Video Journal interview with Lenswork's Brooks Jensen, in which he showed some work in a card folio, and I immediately fell in love with the look of these folios. I thought it was such a unique and...
Today we take a look at the winners of the May Assignment with the theme "Nothing in Focus", and congratulate the winner of the first Accumulated vote Grand Prize of 2009.[smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep195.mp3"]Unfortunately, before recording this episode, I didn't notice that the third and second place...
With all the great fine art inkjet papers available today, it can be difficult to find "your" paper. The one paper, or maybe even two or three types of paper, that you turn to for your high quality, fine art prints. Testing papers can be...
With the plethora of great fine art inkjet papers available today, it can be difficult to find "your" paper. The one paper, or maybe even two or three types of paper, that you turn to for your high quality, fine art prints. Testing papers can...
