Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
<mark@c...> wrote:
> The low cost, to whom? The photographers, because they can print them  
> themselves?
> Mark

Yes, in some instances. 

But some photographers (including my local favorites) use individual
inkjet printing craftsmen, who have their own studios (perhaps at
home), working on project basis (same with framing).. cheaper than
traditional free-standing photolab work because there's so little
overhead. An Epson 9600 costs 20% of a comparably sized color paper
processor, not to mention plumbing and maintainance, and the materials
may be cheaper (I've not compared). I doubt any of the gallery work
I've seen was done in a photolab. Why deal with a lab? 

I've watched the work of a woman, who successfully photographs horses
and horse events, first selling darkroom horse portraits, then her own
Epson 2200 prints (12X18 max), then murals printed by someone
else...her photos are hung for sale all over the place, several
restaurants, various public events, galleries etc...very appealing.
She is constantly around horse people and she gets a lot of publicity
through horse publications, and she's very good... so the sky's the
limit for her.

Similarly, a woman who for years has sold lovely transfers of
Polaroids is now moving up in size with digital prints (maybe 11X14
max?)...Weston-like color still lives of plants and vegetables...we've
bought  several of her Polaroid transfers, are used to looking at them
4X5 in matte/glass/frame, so it's hard for me to imagine her work
mural size...but it'd be cheap and easy for her to give it a whirl. 

Djon



> 
> On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Djon wrote:
> 
> > The low cost of inkjet prints allows photographers readily to show
> > huge prints...