I really enjoyed Doing the Work as I immediately started thinking possible projects, but I also started wondering about the final prodict of your two projects. A zine, a coffee table book? What will the final product be? I up graded to paid largely because of this article and the way it got me thinking.
I am not sure yet but... I'll be walking through the final manifestation of this project over the next few weeks. A 'zine is not out of the question but 12 images is a little on the low end for that in my own estimation, at least from other projects where a soft-cover book/zine was the target. Definitely not a coffee table book, that would be something much farther down the road that might be a sort of anthology to other related work.
For now I have only two objectives for this particular project. The first is just a portfolio of reasonable dimensions of the final 12 selects. Still need to fill that blank hole. The second is to display these in my own personal space. There's a little more to that than meets the eye based on my thoughts. I'll be sharing that shortly but I think that small step of putting them on the wall is something that should be interesting to you. Too much to really discuss in a comment. More soon.
Several points of your piece Doing the Work resonated with me. First, the "creative project" concept, that generates a group of curated, related photographs. I uaually work that way, and you have articulated the process that expands on my more basic system. Second, that taking photographs when or where you are, can often lead to more special projects.
I enjoy your evaluations and discussions of printing papers, but I confess that I have stayed with my first love, Moab Entrada Rag Bright for 99% of my printing. Change may be coming though, because Epson has discontinued my printer (R3000), and I am on my last set of inks. Have you discussed printers as well as you have papers?
The only post I put out there regarding printers was some thoughts on a 13" or a 17" as someone's first "pro printer". I generally consider any of the pro printers (those as first class citizens of the paper manufacturers list of printers they create profiles for fine art papers) as pretty solid but I only discuss printers I have EXTENSIVE experience using.
That said I switched to Canon printers LONG ago and find them operationally extremely solid which I care about more than minor variations in gamut (which are all good enough, and if you REALLY cared about gamut you'd probably choose a dye printer instead of a pigment printer. We use Canon Pro-1000 printers (superseded by the Pro-1100) far more than any other printer we have, they are real workhorses for the majority of of prints we make. At home in my office I use a Canon Pro-310 for all of my small prints as it's major merit is it is compact, produces good output on the papers I use, and most of all it starts up really quick compared to the studio's bigger printers.
I really enjoyed Doing the Work as I immediately started thinking possible projects, but I also started wondering about the final prodict of your two projects. A zine, a coffee table book? What will the final product be? I up graded to paid largely because of this article and the way it got me thinking.
I am not sure yet but... I'll be walking through the final manifestation of this project over the next few weeks. A 'zine is not out of the question but 12 images is a little on the low end for that in my own estimation, at least from other projects where a soft-cover book/zine was the target. Definitely not a coffee table book, that would be something much farther down the road that might be a sort of anthology to other related work.
For now I have only two objectives for this particular project. The first is just a portfolio of reasonable dimensions of the final 12 selects. Still need to fill that blank hole. The second is to display these in my own personal space. There's a little more to that than meets the eye based on my thoughts. I'll be sharing that shortly but I think that small step of putting them on the wall is something that should be interesting to you. Too much to really discuss in a comment. More soon.
Good Morning!
Several points of your piece Doing the Work resonated with me. First, the "creative project" concept, that generates a group of curated, related photographs. I uaually work that way, and you have articulated the process that expands on my more basic system. Second, that taking photographs when or where you are, can often lead to more special projects.
I enjoy your evaluations and discussions of printing papers, but I confess that I have stayed with my first love, Moab Entrada Rag Bright for 99% of my printing. Change may be coming though, because Epson has discontinued my printer (R3000), and I am on my last set of inks. Have you discussed printers as well as you have papers?
Best,
Robert
Ps. I am kinda a Canon fanboy, but the Epsons that now have a dedicated head/nozzles for photo and mat black ink are fine...
The only post I put out there regarding printers was some thoughts on a 13" or a 17" as someone's first "pro printer". I generally consider any of the pro printers (those as first class citizens of the paper manufacturers list of printers they create profiles for fine art papers) as pretty solid but I only discuss printers I have EXTENSIVE experience using.
That said I switched to Canon printers LONG ago and find them operationally extremely solid which I care about more than minor variations in gamut (which are all good enough, and if you REALLY cared about gamut you'd probably choose a dye printer instead of a pigment printer. We use Canon Pro-1000 printers (superseded by the Pro-1100) far more than any other printer we have, they are real workhorses for the majority of of prints we make. At home in my office I use a Canon Pro-310 for all of my small prints as it's major merit is it is compact, produces good output on the papers I use, and most of all it starts up really quick compared to the studio's bigger printers.