When Dean said it is a shame that many photographers go take pictures and never print their images. Ugh. Stab me in the heart! Stop talking about me!

I found that when I started printing, my composition started to improve because i was always thinking how would it look on a wall. I'm a Macro shooter but the principles still apply. Even my landscapes started to improve a bit more but I don't shoot landscape often. I'm here for the journey and the laughs 🤣🤣🤣

I recently printed my mates face on to toilet roll and gave it to him on his birthday. A truly unique gift idea I’m sure you’ll agree 😂

I sell at art shows. I sell mostly wall art at the 36x54 or 40 x60 size, a little less the 24x36 to 32x48 and panos are good too for those with short walls (8feet high) but need the length. That's were the money is. The small paper prints for me are just filler sales that cover costs (18x24 matted under $100). People pay money to hang a center piece over a couch, dinning room, bedroom etc. in my experience. Small prints are almost not worth it. Great video. Printing one's own paper and canvas is very doable, dye sub on metal is more challenging. I bought a 30x40 heat press for aluminum, but its a pain and it's better just to pay a lab to do those. One mistake and you have a expensive waste of metal. Paper and ink are dirt cheap comparatively and canvas too, but varnishing is a pain. I love watching your videos!

So good! Thanks for posting. I'm glad I'm already on the mailing list. I would love, if you are willing and it doesn't give away too many secrets, to see a video that covers what you do differently to an image in preparation for printing. Thanks for the interview of Dean. I had not come across his work. The lesson there seems I have heard many times, if you can target the high end, your market never goes away. Thankfully, for me, my camera does not have to pay for itself. Looking forward to hearing your vibrato. Cheers.

Wow , both you and Adam have a "Chasing Awe" giveaway book contest, cool!

You're a lucky bloke to find someone who's so happy to share in your hobbies and interests 👍

The flimsy material below your printer is called the print collection tray so it falls smoothly without damaging your precious prints. You will inevitably walk by your printer and kick by mistake as I do in our lab. Yes the printer inks can cost the price of a weekend stay at the Waldorf Astoria with an unlimited mini bar, but it’s worth it. You can get a great framer to put museum glass into your framed prints with no reflectione whatsoever. Costly though and best to sell some of the equity in your home to get it. I jest. It’s not that bad. Great video and that microphone made you look even more professional than Adam Gibbs with his squilian dollar Fuji medium format camera.

I use Whitewall also... great place, excellent product.

The flappy bit on the front of the printer is a cat hammock. 😺

Great to see Toby and Tim from Fotospeed making an appearance. They're just up the road. Top blokes!

I clicked so hard on this notification, I almost broke my mouse. I have a brand-new Canon Pro-200 printer (not up to your monster machine, but pretty good) but I hadn't used it to actually print photos until today. I'm pretty happy with my "test" 8.5" x11" prints, and I'll redo a couple in 13" x 19" (A3+, the largest my printer can do) for the apartment. Maybe you could soon do a video on how to actually print one's own photos properly, like doing soft proofs in Lightroom and setting up appropriate print profiles for your printer and paper. Thanks as always.

I cannot tell you how much I love your videos, pictures and humor! Thank you for all the hard work you go through to shoot these videos and keep us entertained!! “I’m not sponsored. Get in touch” needs to be on merch!! Bahaha. It gets me every time!!

Agree with u so much. I have only ever printed large about half dozen of my images, but I love looking at them everyday.

I printed my favourite landscape picture onto wallpaper using Photowall and papered the wall of my study. Now I have a view of Glencoe in my office, and I haven't stopped looking it since!

The guys from Fotospeed did a great job for the show xd.

Thank you for all your videos, I love them,very helpful.... ❤

Such a useful video! Thank you Mr. Hardcastle!!!

Brilliant xx

You must be doing really good, you even hired a mime and those don't come cheap I wish some day I can be like you, my prints are 4x6 stuck on the wall with a piece of blu-tack 😅

You’ve sent nick back the knackered lens haven’t ya What I like when waiting on the large format print to finish is… “Flicking through the pages of Chasing Awe…. By Me” grin So Mrs Hardcastle/ Unicorn isn’t really blonde. Beautiful images Boss!!

A video in two halves. First half wet yourself funny, the second blow your mind useful. One of your best 👍

What an interesting and brilliant video. Thank you all so much for this.

Love the humor! Awesome ‼️

Excellent!

Cheers Gavin, Appreciate the effort in your videos. And agree with the printing concept improving photography. And there is a huge amount of enjoyment in it (exept for the paper and ink cost). Thanks Rodger

Stellar presentation Gavin - many helpful insights! 👍

Thanks for the discussion of different types of prints and presentation. The stone wall in the living room is lovely. And, I can’t help but smile when you and Amanda are playing off each other.

Excellent work thank you

Terrific video filled with useful information.

Really cool video on printing. Thank you, much appreciated.

That is to help keep dirt from collecting on your print due to static. Poor Gavin! You could jam with the guitar while singing the jingle! Love the video!

Lovely video mate! I agree completely. I started making fine art prints of my work and it truly is the most rewarding part of my photography. I also just sold my first fine art print to a client. Wow! Such a rewarding moment. Also nice to display your own work in your home.

1987 called and they want their picture frame back. Haha kidding. Another awesome video. Love your channel forever.

Great video, it makes you appreciate even more what you do!

Thanks for a great video & chat, loved it.

A great interview, and the opportunity to talk with Dean. A great video.

Thank you for mentioning all these possible options Gavin! And all your questions were just as helpful and well thought! I was actually hoping one of my photographers on KZread would do a video like this!

Great vid. Always appreciate the humor. Shooting with the thought of post processing for print= what a concept.

That was so good in all aspects

Another awesome video, very entertaining and insightful!

Another ripper! Perfect timing with the printing 👌

I really enjoy all your videos, and when ever I get notifications that you uploaded a video. I can’t wait to see it.

Great video and learnt a lot from the discussion at the end as well. Printing is a whole new ball game but one of the best parts of being a photographer, seeing your image printed out.

Thank you!

Thanks for this G.

This answered my questions!!! AWESOME as usual Gavin! Cheers

I couldn’t agree more mate, I love printing my images.

Great interview Gavin, Great to see Deans amazing portfolio very cool

Great video.Very informative.

Enjoyed the interview. Very informative.

Hi Gavin. This was very useful indeed, thank you. And delivered in your amazing crazy, self-effacing and brilliantly humorous way. Superb, Sir!

Excellent Interview!

unicorn fetish?, Printing out your image is what everyone should be doing if you take landscape photos. Great video mate.

Great entertainment with very helpful information and tips throughout, coupled with an inspiring interview with Dean. You really excelled this week Gavin.

Oh wonderful. So many funny moments. Great interview, different perspective on printing images. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Granddaughters love your Unicorn aprons, have to look for some of them for Christmas. Keep working on the falsetto, there's a Bee Gee cover band out there for you 😀😀😀

Boy was this video ever an inspiration. Great interview. Never heard of him and I actually grew up in Saskatchewan, now in Vancouver. I used to be an animator but am looking into photography as a new creative outlet. It’s good to know prints can be so beautiful. Cheers

You're so right printing and hanging your prints on the walls is so rewarding. My house is filled with my prints.

Great info. And your Print sale looks good!

44 Minutes! Do you think I have all day to watch this stuff? My God, I am glad I did :-) As usual I loved the humour with the subtle injection of information embedded, but the highlight really was the interview. I do hope you get to shoot with Dean, and you get to make a vlog of it. Awesome stuff Gavin. 44 minutes of my life well spent!

Ooo special edition

Very cool, great interview and very informative!

Love the video guys, 👍😎👍

15:03 you said "doo doo" LOL, sorry, I'm a toddler LOL. But seriously, I do not believe an image is done until it's been printed. Excellent video.

Very nice interview with Dean, very educational; your questions were great Gavin and Dean's answers were really eye-opening, very on point. I learnt a lot today about printing.

Fantastiqua!

Great interview!

Very interesting to view (tumbs up). :)

This was great Gavin! I've been planning to start printing some of my work and this video gave me a number of things to consider. Thanks for this!

Always inspired by your vids Gavin. It's encouraged me to get back out there with my Pentax 645D, review the way I approach my photography (focus stacking/blending) and improving my technique. I guess that's the value of watching a pro at work. I have an A3+ Canon printer, and the best shots will find there way onto a space somewhere. Thanks for what you do!

Pretty fancy stand for that really awesome book!

Top watch as always entertaining and informative throughout. These days I don’t print much at all not much wall space in the van I have however claimed a wall at the other arfs place so I’ll be knocking a few prints out soon.

Perfect timing for this video. I found a Canon Pro 100 out in the back alley in Vancouver right before a rainstorm the other day and I've been printing up a STORM.

@brianbeattyphotography

3 жыл бұрын

what a find!

Just did a printing video myself, nothing like seeing you photos printed, it’s awesome. Signed up and waiting for my winning print! 😎

Always entertaining and engaging videos Gavin this one is top notch hoping you will continue with followup about the print process because it is so true about preparation for printing being very different than what most of us know for a post on social media.

Been doing my own prints through Whitewall for some time now myself. Really happy with their quality.

Great vlog on printing, really interesting and loved the zoom call with the guys at Fotospeed, hilarious!

Amanda smiled in an odd way when children were mentioned. What a scary thought: little Gavins running around.

Love that Canon Piano. 45 min of awesome .

Definitely recommend printing your stuff and I have used whitewall for all my prints and find them great, I mainly printed my stuff as gifts for my mum. When she finally put them up the memories they invoked were incredible it was like I was back there. Lighting is key and not all pictures will perform the same under the same lighting conditions. I have a picture of an Aurora display and I always thought it was took dark. We hung it anyway in a corner with the light at an oblique angle and the image just lit up.

That wave crashing against the rock shot was oh so juicy! Honestly, that’s immense. I use whitewall for some metallic portrait shots and they turned out Sue Perb. I’ll need to save up my shit tickets so I can get in a few workshops with you when all the politicians get their heads out of their arses!

Loved the video. I will have to look into Fotospeed papers after that! 🤣 Absolutely agree on the printing subject. Printing is necessary... Cheers Gavin

Best thing I ever did was buy my canon Pro1000. Absolutely love it 👌

Very timely. I was thinking about trying to print some of my images again a couple of months ago. Then I got side tracked. I'll have to get back on it. Great work, Gavin.

45 minutes! Yes please 😎👍

I was totally immersed in this one, your art is truely awe inspiring but Mr Mcleod's is beyond awe and I can only imagine what his pictures look like in print. Maybe when I'm not being such a tight Yorkshireman I'll buy a print or two of yours.

I found printing improved my photography considerably. There is no substitute for a print you create yourself. 22 inch format printers are great today and can fit on a desk easily and give great results. Paper selection gives you another great way to give a print it's own unique personality. Printing is the ultimate way to present an image. It is the best way to improve your photography.

This is the video I needed. I'm at the point where I want to print my images, and even had a couple of people wanting a print too. I did a couple of test prints at a local London Drugs to find out they are much darker then what they seem on the screen. Once I get the edit correct I sent it to a place on Denman Island who does amazing printing.

Great video....very entertaining and informative. Had me flip-flopping about setting up the Canon imagePROGRAPH Pro 1000 that was left to me or letting it go. Also have a ton of questions about printing now but the info in this video has given me a direction to start looking. I'll be in BC in August and hoping to get that special image that I will print and hang. Keep up the good work on these videos.

As always I love your videos, both entertaining and educating - printing is against the digital forgetting

Great video, loved your interview with Dean. As Dean was saying it's hard to tell what people will buy. I would like to here more about what prints sell for you. Are you surprised at which prints sell? and what do you feel people are looking for, the epic shot or clean and simple..Keep the print video's coming. Thx Gavin

Great video Gavin!! I enjoy printing my own prints at home for the same reason of having control over the whole process. A little tip (literally) is to print small while trying to get the settings right and once you nailed it then you can print your the big ones. Saves a lot of $$$$ on ink and paper :)

@fototripper

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I learned that the hard way many years ago. I have lots of tiny photos on the corners of blank pages.

Woohoo First post!!

Great interview and content. I have a smaller printer than yours, but love to print my work from time to time. Mostly gifts for family and friends. Keep up the good work! I love your Chanel.

I always used metal channel-type frames that could be bought in whatever lengths you need along with double or triple matting with acid-free mats and non-reflective glass. For exhibitions, I double matted in white and often used off-set mat openings. Prints were adhered to a substrate. Always looked good. Back then, used Fuji Crystal Archive paper. Still have many prints on the wall from many years ago. All look like they were mounted yesterday.

Excellent subject and topics. I found out the hard way with regards what I see on screen may not be how it "actually" looks. I was hooked, spent a lot of money on high end graphic equipment, camera's, lenses, monitors etc and it has taken years to do so. I now have my images printed onto large canvas frameless prints and my God, they look absolutely stunning. I realised that for every penny I spent investing in what I considered to be the best it really pays off seeing them in print. Just had some canvas prints delivered from a company I use a lot and again, totally blown away more so because the printed images look exactly as I see them on screen. I am totally blown away with the results so much so I am confident now to start to sell my images (if there is any market for it) and knowing the clients will be getting nothing but the best. Oh, I am not in any way rich, a truck driver during the day and have had to scrimp and save over the years so no, nothing handed to me on a plate, no help given in my quest and totally self funded bringing up 4 kids and also paying off a mortgage. 🙂

Brilliant :-D

Enjoyed the interview a lot, great vid

Great Vlog Gavin. Especially since I am now printing my images. It’s been a lot of fun, albeit expensive to ship Fotospeed paper to Northern California. One thing Dean mentioned was to outsource images and compare to your own prints in your own studio. I was happy to hear this and will try sending some Images to White Wall and compare. Lots of work getting the Webpage set up, images ready for print etc, but to me there is nothing so humbling as to have a customer hang an image I have made in their personal space. Again thanks for the videos, always fun watching them.

@fototripper

3 жыл бұрын

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Love to have a shot at both, but the book is my chosen option. Always look forward to your post, humor and content. Can't be bear.