Comments on: Printing is on my Mind http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2009/01/08/printing-is-on-my-mind A daily photograph, news, observations, and ideas about photography Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:23:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: G Dan Mitchell http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2009/01/08/printing-is-on-my-mind/comment-page-1#comment-2354 G Dan Mitchell Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:03:31 +0000 http://www.gdanmitchell.com/?p=3303#comment-2354 Thanks for posting. Glad you enjoyed the Rowell photos. I guess I should have included the "photo book" in my little write-up, too. The experience of viewing the book is different from viewing online images and from viewing single photographic prints I think, but I'm all for viewing well done book prints. (If you ever have the opportunity to visit the eastern Sierra Nevada, stop in at the "Mountain Light Gallery" in Bishop, where many of Rowells photographs are hung as prints. I think you will really enjoy that if you are becoming a Rowell fan.) I think that if you end up feeling that "the print is the thing" that you'll eventually want to try doing your own printing. I think this is the only way that you can follow your vision for your photographs all the way through. But I also understand the dilemma of figuring out what to do next when you are still building your system, especially if getting a printer now means that you cannot make certain shots due to equipment limitations. Life is full of choices... and so is photography! :-) As to what I do with my prints, there is not a single answer - it depends on the photograph and on where I am with that particular photo. I print some photographs at the request of a client who wants to purchase one, of course. At the other extreme, I make small prints of many new photographs so that I can hold them in my hand, see what they'll actually look like as prints, and consider them over time. At the moment I have a stack of more than 50 such small prints sitting on my desk. I print some for display in my home. I'm working on assembling at least three portfolios right now, so I've printed many photographs for that purpose. Thanks for posting. Glad you enjoyed the Rowell photos. I guess I should have included the “photo book” in my little write-up, too. The experience of viewing the book is different from viewing online images and from viewing single photographic prints I think, but I’m all for viewing well done book prints. (If you ever have the opportunity to visit the eastern Sierra Nevada, stop in at the “Mountain Light Gallery” in Bishop, where many of Rowells photographs are hung as prints. I think you will really enjoy that if you are becoming a Rowell fan.)

I think that if you end up feeling that “the print is the thing” that you’ll eventually want to try doing your own printing. I think this is the only way that you can follow your vision for your photographs all the way through. But I also understand the dilemma of figuring out what to do next when you are still building your system, especially if getting a printer now means that you cannot make certain shots due to equipment limitations. Life is full of choices… and so is photography! :-)

As to what I do with my prints, there is not a single answer – it depends on the photograph and on where I am with that particular photo. I print some photographs at the request of a client who wants to purchase one, of course. At the other extreme, I make small prints of many new photographs so that I can hold them in my hand, see what they’ll actually look like as prints, and consider them over time. At the moment I have a stack of more than 50 such small prints sitting on my desk. I print some for display in my home. I’m working on assembling at least three portfolios right now, so I’ve printed many photographs for that purpose.

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