Fine Art Photography
February 2024, Urban jungle
The picture was taken under the condition of having a human being in the picture, which takes up less than 25 % of the picture. And yet, as soon as a person is in the picture, the motif draws attention to itself.
The picture was created with Photoshop. The AI function was helpful to enlarge the image. But I also worked with layers.
Germany, Munich, Nov 2023 - Behind the window
Nothing is more adventurous than editing images in Photoshop. No matter what idea you start with, you end up with something completely different. How did that come about, you sometimes ask yourself.
A roof session in Portland
I had this baby lens in my suitcase. The view was awesome. Yet sometimes the days don’t have so much color. Days can be moody, too.
The window
Some asanas look better in pictures than others. If legs and arms are separated the asana usually looks more interesting. More details can be seen.
I used a filter that blurred the right and left side of the picture. The asana itself is important not the model.
Tittibhasana A
I found the curtain in a hotel in the US. It served me as a frame for tittibhasana. The leaves are from Portland.
It’s the responsibility of the artist and not of those who print when the printed picture is on the wrong paper, has the wrong size. It’s not the first time that I wanted to get my pictures printed on dem paper and I got them on glossy ones or the other way round. One must check the results.
Today I got another picture printed. When I returned home I realized that it was printed on another paper than the pictures that I got printed yesterday even though I mentioned that I’d like to get the same paper like yesterday. Nobody wants to have 5 different papers in a portfolio. I even explained my project and why I need the same paper. I had asked the last time, but I didn’t insist enough to get an answer about the company who produces the paper that they use and the thickness of the paper. I wanted to have glossy paper in addition.
Everything that could go wrong went wrong already:
I got the wrong paper size. I was told that the one who would frame it can cut it. But I want to put the picture in a file.
I got dim paper instead of glossy one.
Each time the thickness of the paper was different.
As said it’s the responsibility of the artist to communicate correctly.
This is the second print company that I try. The first one was expensive beyond imagination. It took 3 weeks till I got one picture printed and then it was printed on a paper with a wrong size. On the sides of the picture was a tiny white rim.
I know now why I avoided this last step. To get to prints is a stony path plastered with mistakes. It’s a trial and error adventure. It can get expensive and time-consuming.
One must probably distinguish between print companies and copy shops. Printing companies have different clients. Most people probably want to get a few copies and go to a copy shop round the corner. They want to get the diploma printed i.e.. Advertising companies might go to different print companies that offer a higher standard. They might not be interested in printing a single picture every week. The printer of the copy shops are usually of high quality these days. Yet a copy shop has different expertise than a company that offers fine art prints.
Hahnemühle is a leading paper company. I consider to buy my own paper. Hahnemühle also offers high end boxes to store the pictures. That way I can at least control a tiny part of the printing process.