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The second entry into the Orange County Fair this year is one that I planned for well over a year – Bristlecone Moon. The bristlecone pine are the oldest living trees on the planet. The oldest of these is over 4,800 years old. Imagine, not only will it outlive you and I, not only has it outlived our ancestors, but it has outlived whole civilizations.
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When I first got my Epson 4800 printer I was tackling so many learning curves all at once that I really didn’t spend any time experimenting with papers. I was learning the virtually unlimited possibilities with Photoshop, getting used to the vast field of color management, Lightroom came along and that presented a new learning curve, HDR with PhotoMatix, LightZone, Photokit Sharpener, Imaginomics Noiseware Pro and more. Plus I was focusing on composition, light, post processing, soft proofing, etc.
It’s no wonder that paper was not high on my list of things that needed my complete focus and attention. I settled on Epson Enhanced Matte, a paper that gave me the effect I was looking for; that is, photographs that looked like paintings. And given the number of artist’s proofs I had to print before I got a print that I was satisfied with, it didn’t hurt that it was a fairly inexpensive paper.
Epson Enhanced Matte is a really nice paper for what I wanted to do. And I’ve never looked back at the decision to go with matte. I briefly tried some glossy and luster papers and didn’t like what they did for my photographs. So I was happy to stay with a matte surface.
But I didn’t realize when I started that the low D Max would be a challenge or that there would also be some color gamut difficulties, especially in the yellow-browns. These made working with some images rather formidable. It took a while but I finally started understanding what was going on and anticipating and pretty much avoiding these problems. Then… Continue reading “Red River Paper”
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