It’s always nice to see your work printed and hanging on a wall somewhere. I recently had the opportunity to do just that, which made a nice change as when my images are used normally I rarely get to see the final product ‘in the flesh’, and they look fantastic in their new home – a seating space in the entrance area of Sky TV’s head office.
A1 and A3 prints on display
Where I did I get the prints done?
I’ve got to give credit and a thumbs up to Lee and the gang at Togsprint whilst I’m on the subject. The service and print quality I received from them was superb. A quick email to Lee on a Thursday morning to explain I needed the prints asap and that I wanted A3 and A1 sizes (not selectable as standard on their site) and how did I go about doing that, and I was away. I uploaded the images to their site via FTP at 2pm, and my images were on the way the same day and trackable via Fed Ex – if it wasn’t for a double bank holiday weekend I’d have had my images the next day. Great service.
And finally readers, do you ever print your own images?
I have to admit, other than display online and of course sending off to Alamy image library I rarely print mine. In fact, I currently have just three images printed and framed in my house. I have plenty of others that I did many moons ago when I used to do my own, but they are all sitting in a folder upstairs and never see the light of day. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have more images on display at home but I simply don’t have the wall space. So it really was a pleasure to get some larger prints done and see them hung up on display (and in case you are wondering why a blue line on the wall, it’s because there is a small plaque with my details that goes above the blue square to the left, but that hadn’t been put on the wall when I took the photo). It’s also nice to see how well large prints come out from both the Nikon D3 and D300 – the London ones especially as some of these were high ISO taken at dusk, and the large A1 dragonfly was handheld with the D300, 200-400 and 1.4x TC and looks impressively sharp!
Seeing them printed really was a nice reminder that viewing on a computer screen doesn’t do your images half as much justice – which is something that is all too easy to forget in this digital age. So I may have to start trying to find some wall space from somewhere…anyone know a good builder…?
