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I have lately fallen in love with printed images (my own at least) and have started to print more and more.
And I think I understand why.
When I look at a scene, my mind's eye is free to block out everything else in that scene, concentrate on what I want to see and, essentially, magnify that portion of the scene until it fills my mind's eye. With a digital image, displayed at a single size, it is much more difficult for me to concentrate on one part of it and satisfy my interest.
The very physicality of a print allows me to move it, to bring it closer, to shift it right and left and essentially fill my visual field.
There is so much fine detail in a nice print that it allows me to get close and see things that essentially disappear into pixel boundaries on the screen.
Of course prints require a different 'look' than a screen-displayed image and I am learning to create that.
One example is shown below; this picture which is not so interesting as a digital image is mesmerizing as a print.
I had lost some interest in my own work and going back to print some of the older pictures from 5 or 6 years ago has energized my faith in myself.
I had planned to try a bunch of different papers but I am getting so much fun out of the Canon Paper Plus Semi Gloss, I'll stick with that for a little bit.
And I think I understand why.
When I look at a scene, my mind's eye is free to block out everything else in that scene, concentrate on what I want to see and, essentially, magnify that portion of the scene until it fills my mind's eye. With a digital image, displayed at a single size, it is much more difficult for me to concentrate on one part of it and satisfy my interest.
The very physicality of a print allows me to move it, to bring it closer, to shift it right and left and essentially fill my visual field.
There is so much fine detail in a nice print that it allows me to get close and see things that essentially disappear into pixel boundaries on the screen.
Of course prints require a different 'look' than a screen-displayed image and I am learning to create that.
One example is shown below; this picture which is not so interesting as a digital image is mesmerizing as a print.
I had lost some interest in my own work and going back to print some of the older pictures from 5 or 6 years ago has energized my faith in myself.
I had planned to try a bunch of different papers but I am getting so much fun out of the Canon Paper Plus Semi Gloss, I'll stick with that for a little bit.
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