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Hi! My name is Ben Long and in this course, Inkjet Printing for Photographers, I'm going to show
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you how to print, because as far as I'm concerned, an image is not finished until it's on paper.
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Taking a picture is a physical act: moving through the world, seeing, positioning yourself,
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exploring your subject and its environment, and finally manipulating the camera; it's
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all very physical.
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I want the end result to be physical also. I want to have an actual object that results
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from my shooting process.
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You can't be a good photographer without having a sophisticated relationship to light, to
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tone and color, and if your only experience of manipulating and evaluating color and light
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is on a computer screen, then you're missing out on working with the true color of the real world.
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You only get that from paper, and current inkjet printing technology that lets you explore
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printed color with a precision, with the dynamic range, and a permanence that you never had
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in the chemical darkroom.
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So printing is not just about creating a physical result;
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it's about the further exploration of your image, your subject, and most importantly, of life itself.
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I have got a fairly big monitor, but I've got a bigger printer.
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On paper I can play with scale in a way that I just can't do on a computer screen and as
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I scale images up, they become landscapes and environments that I can explore.
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As I scale them down, they become these little objects that I can live amongst.
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Image size can dramatically change my relationship to an image, and I can't get that on a computer screen.
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Sure, with an electronic image, I can beam it all over the world, but honestly, I don't care.
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It's not a real picture at that point.
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It's just more calories that we consume from the media bubble.
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When I put it on paper, it gains heft and most importantly,
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if I put it on paper, it just looks better and that's why I print, because I want to
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see my images at their very best.