by Steve Gordon
19. May 2009 07:05
With my upcoming exhibition at Eastbourne Framing Centre on the 24th June I've been busy preparing my photographs from printing. It's a time consuming process as I am a bit of a perfectionist and since I processed some of the shots I've developed my editing skills and learnt better methods. Once mistake I've made with a lot of shots in the past in sharpening them for their native size and saving that as my final TIFF file. The problem arises when I need to upscale the shot for printing at the larger sizes. This causes blocky artifacts on the edges of detail which although barely noticable in print aren't quite perfect.
As a result I've ended up re-processing a lot of the older photographs so that I can perform the sharpening steps after upscaling the file for print. This will be the first large batch which I've printed from my new print supplier and if the proofs and tests are anything to go by then the results should be fanatastic. Their colour accuracy is much better than my old supplier and the paper stock also seems to be better quality. Another advantage is that they flat pack the prints up to 18 x 12 inches which makes mounting them a bit easier.