Going over old ground

Oriental Poppy

Over the past few days I have been going through my images from last year and picking out some of the raw files I missed.   The above was taken in June last year and just liked the pink leaves.

Printing

I am still looking into the printing issue.  I suspect the paper I have bought might not be the best for what I want to do - look out for it on ebay!   Anyway, I have order some other paper just to be on the safe side.  We will have to see how things develop (I suspect that pun was intended!)

Printing! Printing!

Deep joy - I'm starting to print the RPS submission.  Actually I am starting the process and I am running test with Epson Fine art archival paper.   Once I had worked out how to print on sheet at a time with the printer (the paper is very thick) I then had the problem of trying to get the drivers to align.   The profile set up in Adobe CS4 was ok.  However, I cannot get the printer to see the same profile.  The result is that I have run two test on the fine art paper with different settings using the glossy print driver.  They don't look too good but I will give them time to dry.   Failing this I will have to phone epson up and find out what I am doing wrong.   I suppose this is part of the learning process.

Printing and other things

Birds at Staunton Harold Reservoir Car Park

I got around to installing the printer today.   I had to down load the new 64 bit drivers and they installed no problem.  The printer appears to be very stable but is printing a little dark at the moment.  However, I have got to calibrate my screen yet and this might over come some of this.

As I mentioned a few days ago I have been playing around with creating images of several birds superimposed onto one another to make a montage.  The above effort is my first attempt.  I think this shows great promise.   The question is what type of photograph is it?   Is it a photograph at all as this was created with a great deal of digital processing?   In the end I keep coming back to a question that was thrown at me from one of the seminars - Does is matter?   Well in one sense it does matter - I couldn't enter this as an editorial photograph.  However, as I am not that type of photographer that is not a great consideration.   In the end I like it and for me that is all that matters.