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Agreed. Or in even simpler terms, just say your an artist. There's tons of case law protecting the rights of artists under the first amendment, with pretty broad leeway given in defining what "art"...

Thanks for the additional info, it's much appreciated.

Yeah, maybe I'm overreacting, I've never been there in winter conditions so really have no idea what to expect. Still, it seems the more ambitious day-hikes we were looking forward to will not be...

Man I'm really bummed about this storm system. We're flying into Vegas this Saturday morning, and then driving up to Mammoth Lakes for 4 nights followed by 3 nights in Bishop before heading back...

Why would it make sense to send an inkjet print that has to be scanned by Lenswork (with the inherent loss of quality that inevitably entails) when you can just send the digital image on disk? That...

I wonder if in cases where the image seems level in one part of the frame but not the opposite, what you're actually seeing is geometric distortion from the lens. After all such distortion will be...

I don't see why that shot couldn't have been taken with a tilt/shift lens. And you do know that digital backs (and even DSLR's) can be mounted on full-blown technical cameras, right?

I definitely don't think 16mp full-frame is anywhere near optimal. A year or two ago I might have said that 24mp is the sweet spot for full-frame; but the 16mp APS sensors coming out since then have...

Oversampling is not a bad thing, or even pointless. Nyquist theorem says you want 2x over-sampling, so for an 80lp/mm lens you would want a 160lp/mm sensor with no AA filter to maximize resolution...

No surprise really. For the most part these magazines are publishing the same fairly small group of guys who have been doing this for decades and have huge libraries of chromes they've shot over the...

I think if you want to do multiple limited editions and stay out of trouble, disclosure is the key. For instance if you provide a certificate of authenticity with your limited edition prints listing...

I think what it boils down to is that unless you can realistically expect that your work will be bought and sold on the secondary market, there's no rational benefit in limited editions to either the...

I suppose it's possible in theory but unlikely, at least with the major-brand photo inkjets used by most. Epson, Canon, and HP maintain parity in their Mac/Windows drivers. After all 3rd-party paper...

Your previously-made ICC profiles will work fine on the iMac, they are not OS-specific.

The only thing to watch out for is if they are version 4 profiles, because one of the recent MacOS releases...

Sounds like your router is assigning different IP#'s to these devices each time they are powered up. Log into the admin UI on your router and see if there are settings in the DHCP section to control...

Maybe it's less about stability than weight. I imagine sticking an 8x10 field camera on a Gitzo 2-series might be a bad idea in windy weather, just because a gust could easily blow the whole thing...

Most of the improvements in CS4/CS5 were in regards to Camera Raw and Bridge. Photoshop itself hasn't really seen much improvement for photographers, a lot of the improvements have been more focused...

Same here. Looking forward to it.

Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta. Amazing DMax, excellent color gamut. I find the surface nice (not too glossy/smooth - I don't want my prints looking like they came from the corner drug store), and the...

It's simply math, is what it is. When you have to compress the range from L* = 0 to 100 into a range from 17 to 97, something has to give. If you compress the tonal range in a completely linear way...

My experience matches Bob's, even when using custom profiles. The problem with the matte papers is not just DMax/black, but the total contrast range from DMax to paper white. There's just not enough...

I've gotten DMax in the 1.6-1.7 range with Epson K3 and Canon Lucia and Lucia Ex. I don't have experience with the HPZ, but have seen others report numbers that agree with Tyler's 1.8 estimate. I've...

Are you talking about plexi with a true anti-reflective coating (like eyeglasses), or the 'non-glare' plexi that has an etched/matte surface?

I know Tru Vue makes a product called Optium, if...

These may be of interest: http://www.framedestination.com/GalleryPouch_Bubble_Wrap_Bags.html

I've yet to see anything from a print-on-demand servce that had what I would consider excellent print quality or color consistency. B/W just makes it harder. Any printing system that uses color inks...

I wonder how many in the "they look completely different but are both nice in their own way" camp equate inkjet prints with matte paper?

I would certainly agree that inkjet prints on fine art...

I wouldn't be so sure. After all he was working on a "Color" volume for his instructional books late in life, and had given quite a bit of thought on the subject. Presumably he would have used some...

There's a bit of a learning curve, but It's not that difficult. The newer inkjets are self-calibrating and extremely consistent. If you have a good profile for the paper you use, and a calibrated...

digital c-prints are inferior to pigmented inkjets by pretty much any measure you can name: dmax, gamut, resolution, and longevity. Not only that, but the RC papers those machines use just aren't as...

I asked for suggestions in that area a while back, you may find this thread useful if you hadn't already seen it.

The difference is that B/W is already an abstraction; there's no such think as "realistic" B/W because we don't see the world in B/W. Using filtration or darkroom techniques just make B/W more...

Given the date they were apparently made, that may not be such a clear-cut issue unless the negatives were registered with the copyright office. Copyright protection wasn't automatic back then, and...

What has that got to do with anything? Surely you're not suggesting that what is true and what people publicly admit is always the same thing. ;)


Yes, meanwhile pros often have to justify...

IMHO it's got nothing to do with hobbyists or pros. In some fields, professional results means perfection, but there are plenty of areas where "good enough" is all that's required, especially where...

You're mixing two issues. It's not always about matching the original scene/object, it's about realizing the result you want on-screen (even if that result is stylized or intentionally different from...

Maybe I'm not fully understanding the question, because the answer seems obvious to me. Why would you ever not want or care about color matching? After all, it doesn't do much good to get the image...

That's a straw man argument with no relevance to this thread. Nobody is suggesting the the prices of different works from different artists should be priced according to their relative sizes. The...

I wouldn't recommend the Epson for someone who wants to print on both gloss and matte, personally. The 7900 doesn't waste as much ink as the older models when swapping blacks, but there is still a...

If they want to use the Cone Inks, they'll need to stick to Epson, and the 7900 is not supported to my knowledge, so you won't be able to get onboard profiling.

Are they wanting to use the printer...

I didn't argue that cost of materials alone should be used to set the price of the work, if it came across that way then maybe I didn't explain myself very well. I just suggested that there might be...