Printing Your Work

For my photography class at the high school, I recently had to mat one of my photos. I had rarely even considered printing my photos, really, and was surprised at the result.

Even a photo that looks really nice on the screen looks 10 times better printed. The screen can't display the kind of resolution and detail that is really there. Especially for macro photography (my personal favorite), printing reveals details and beauty that, as far as I know, can't be seen in any other way.

I was pretty happy with this photo just seeing it on the screen. I know you've already seen it, and the detail on screen is great. But when I printed it, it looked insane. The details were as sharp and crisp as the real thing. Unfortunately, there's no way to show you how good it looked printed. You'll just have to try it yourself.




click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr


So experiment with printing some of your photos. If you have a nice color printer at home, buy a ream of high-quality paper and print them yourself. Otherwise, head over to the nearest Costco—their prints are ridiculously inexpensive, and process quickly.

Introduction

Hello everyone. As you can see, I've decided to create a photo blog. It is called Nature's Mugshots because I'm obscenely creative. However, nature photography isn't the only type of photography I will be posting here.

Here is some stuff to remember when reading this blog:

1. This blog template can only support pictures that are not very wide. That's a crappy way to look at photography, so every single photo I ever post will be a link to a higher resolution image.
2. All of my photography is copyrighted. However, I'm not a jerk. So if you want to print a picture, just email me. I'll give you a full-resolution TIFF file. And don't worry, it won't have a watermark of my name on it or anything.
3. I just typed a whole big sales pitch to try and get you to commission me to take senior pictures and stuff. But then I deleted it. Because, come on, Andrew. So yeah. Never mind.

This should be the only post I have that doesn't actually include pictures.

By the way, check out my DeviantART account here. At this stage in the proceedings, I'm not sure whether or not I'll uploading only my best work here, and the "good" work to DeviantART, or some other arrangement. But I'll figure that out eventually.