Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs). I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome. Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results. And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to. And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab. Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
I used to print a lot some years ago (at home) but the ink got so expensive and the printer head clogged. Tried a few labs… nothing great yet. I’ll check out Whitewall!
ive really been meaning to print my own work. its seems daunting and I never wanted to print work that desert look good at all and I wouldn't want to print anymore. ever sense you posted a video a while back about the importance of printing, its been on my mind. here's a sign that I really ought to get rollin. thanks for showing us how to print our work in the best way! also I think you can rent calibrators so that makes it easier to do that.
it's so worth it. I had the same concerns, so I ordered some super cheap Walmart prints (like a couple bucks each for 8x10). That gave me some of the reward of seeing your work on your wall, and made me really want to get higher quality prints that I do now :)
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate. In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter. I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
This is a super helpful video. I particularly liked your discussion about re-sizing the image, in my case the part about upsizing to a larger size was helpful. Thanks.
Man Id love that print. I swear every video I learn something new from you. I had Shiyun loan and ship me that 65 Mitakon because of your video. Excited to make a video about it too!
Aaargh, how great is printing photographs! I've often just stuck with the Canson rags but I am very interested in that matte acrylic option. Thaaaat looks incredible. Thanks again for a clear, informative video.
Having struggled to come to terms with digital images after years with film - something about a bright, maybe over-contrasty, aggressively sharpened, “in your face” look I find tiring, and a colour ‘thing’ - I think you of all the well known YT photographers have managed to find just the right balance. To the point I’d struggle to see which medium you used for capture whether on screen or, now it seems, in print. Even on acrylic?! I’ve used White Wall several times and love the photos but I still hadn’t mastered your managing to balance tone with saturation and lightness of touch. So this was very useful, thank you. Can’t wait for the book to land!
Really cool to hear that. Thank you! I definitely think both film and digital can look very similar, just a matter of figuring out the best way to get there, which can be tough.
@@KyleMcDougall Coincidentally (either that or I’m obsessed with the issue!) I just posted a comment about a particular ‘look’ available with film on Titania Hopper’s latest video. To do with softness, edges OOF areas and grain rather than colour this time. To save time I’ll paste it below if of any interest… That look wouldn’t suit a lot of your work, such as the clean, wide atmospheric look of your south west US images for example, but maybe some weather related atmospheric, moody Welsh landscapes? Perhaps monochromatic… “I often wonder what it is about film that appeals to me more than digital, when people (and software post processing) ‘say’ one can replicate the other. But every now and then I see an image that explains… look at a stilled view of Gordon Parks fashion shot at c.3’05”. The way the grain adds to the softness is beautiful. It adds to the beauty. And digital noise never looks like that. Obviously it’s not relevant or suitable for all images or purposes but the lack of detail, sharpness, dynamic range is a positive here rather than a negative and the way out of focus areas and edges blend with and appear from film grain is a lovely tool to have.”
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
wanted to print my work as well this helped thanks
many thanks for this video Kyle!
No joke, this is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen in a while. Super timely for me, thanks so much!
Happy to hear that. Cheers.
Awesome Video!
absolutely outstanding
Congrats on 100K subs ❤. Commenting to get an awesome print
That image is awesome
thank you for this video. very informative and can't wait to use this information in my printing.
Awesome shot ❤
Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
Thanks for sharing man!!! So many things I've never thought about!!!
Thanks for the tips and I'd love to own that print!
Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
I've just started printing my photos and I've been using Whitewall. This was an incredibly valuable video. I'll watch again and again!
Cheers, Jim. Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for choosing WhiteWall!
I would love to have a piece of yours in my home, Kyle! Keep up the good work ;)
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
Thanks, Alasdair.
Awesome! I’d like to have one of those on my wall
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
Watched it all, 4 times. Have it saved on my learning list, I print some myself but there are quite a few improvements I can learn from here.
Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
Always a good day when a new Kyle vid drops!
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
Always look forward to your videos. Something new to learn every time. Thanks Kyle !
thanks for the info , great watch
Love the image color contrast - the warm colors of the building vs. the cold colors of the clouds
I am actually planning on printing some of my photos for the very first time! So this info is VERY USEFUL! Thanks Kyle!
Very welcome!
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs).
I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome.
Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
I've been using a tweaked version of your workflow for a while and it works great!
Your prints look great Kyle!! Thanks for sharing all the important info!!
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
A lot of great tip 👌🏻. Very helpful and saved for later reference 😇.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻☺️.
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
A lot of great information, I haven’t printed anything yet and this is very helpful.
Greetings from Osaka, Japan! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’ve been trying to get smart on the best ways to print my work and then your video comes out a few days later. Thank you for the info!
Amazing video, I would love that print on my wall🎉🎉
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
Cheers, Drew! Glad you found this one helpful.
been following it would be amazing to have your work in my office thank you!!
Perfect level of detail with the information provided. Much appreciated! What do you look out for when adjusting the radius?
About to purchase my first 6x7 film camera. Looking forward to using your techniques when I print my first image.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results.
And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
Love the work that you are doing!
This was such a genuinely useful video! Thank you for being so thorough and not skipping over any step of the process.
Glad it was helpful!
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOW YOU PRINT. IT WILL HELP ME WITH MY FUTURE PRINTING.
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Glad you found it helpful, Ruben!
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Thank you!
Thanks for this guide. I feel like I finally slightly understand the photoshop/lightroom printing prep process.
Very cool, and I definitely learned a lot from this! Just need to take the plunge and get one of my own images printed up like this now
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
100k!!! So glad for you! You got me back into photography, well deserved!
Thank you!
Such a good breakdown of this process! Invaluable stuff, thank you 🙌🏻
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
Wow turned out great in that black frame
Fantastic information. Thank you for sharing.
Glad i watched this since i was having trouble with sizing my images for my print service at university
it would be great to have more of those videos :) thanks a lot
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Cheers, Ryan. Glad to hear you've been happy with them.
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to.
And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab.
Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
stunning video and print. big ups. been gnarly watching your development through the years mate.
I love this photo as well as your videos!
I used to print a lot some years ago (at home) but the ink got so expensive and the printer head clogged.
Tried a few labs… nothing great yet. I’ll check out Whitewall!
We are happy to print you photography!
I'm sure you'll be very happy with them, Jason.
Looking forward to testing out my own prints using this method
Very interesting all the steps that you go through. Worth watching. thanks.
Been looking for a video that explains this better, thanks!
ive really been meaning to print my own work. its seems daunting and I never wanted to print work that desert look good at all and I wouldn't want to print anymore. ever sense you posted a video a while back about the importance of printing, its been on my mind. here's a sign that I really ought to get rollin.
thanks for showing us how to print our work in the best way! also I think you can rent calibrators so that makes it easier to do that.
it's so worth it. I had the same concerns, so I ordered some super cheap Walmart prints (like a couple bucks each for 8x10). That gave me some of the reward of seeing your work on your wall, and made me really want to get higher quality prints that I do now :)
Like Matt said, definitely worth it. Your photos deserve to be viewed off the screen.
@@KyleMcDougall “your photos deserve to be viewed off the screen” that’s great right there
Thank you so much for all of that great information. I found it very helpful.
I’ve been enjoying printing on the canon selphy you recommended. But I hope to do larger prints like this.
Yes this is a lovely device,
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate.
In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter.
I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
Kyle 🙌🏽
Excellent tutorial. Would love to win one of these prints!
Thank you for your service to the community!
another great video - thank you. sharpening for print is such a personal technique and it's very kind of you to share yours.
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
Love this. Super informative and really makes the printing process seem a lot less daunting. Can’t wait to try some of these tips!
I've been getting some images printed recently. It's my first time doing that, so as a beginner these kind of videos are very useful! Cheers Kyle
Your channel is always so calming, informative, and inspiring! thanks for your works!
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
Cheers, Adrian. Glad you enjoyed!
Great information. I find that a lot of the time it is actually harder to prep a file for sending out rather than printing it yourself.
This is a super helpful video. I particularly liked your discussion about re-sizing the image, in my case the part about upsizing to a larger size was helpful. Thanks.
That's beautiful set of prints man, great to see your workflow! 👌🏼
Man Id love that print. I swear every video I learn something new from you. I had Shiyun loan and ship me that 65 Mitakon because of your video. Excited to make a video about it too!
I'm sure you'll love the Mitakon Dave!
A concise description, thank you!
The final prints came out lovely. Really nice photographs
Love the orange tones in that print
Love not only your photography work but also these informative videos!!
Cheers, Edward.
I really need to start printing more of my work. Thank you for the inspiration!
Aaargh, how great is printing photographs! I've often just stuck with the Canson rags but I am very interested in that matte acrylic option. Thaaaat looks incredible. Thanks again for a clear, informative video.
Having struggled to come to terms with digital images after years with film - something about a bright, maybe over-contrasty, aggressively sharpened, “in your face” look I find tiring, and a colour ‘thing’ - I think you of all the well known YT photographers have managed to find just the right balance. To the point I’d struggle to see which medium you used for capture whether on screen or, now it seems, in print. Even on acrylic?!
I’ve used White Wall several times and love the photos but I still hadn’t mastered your managing to balance tone with saturation and lightness of touch. So this was very useful, thank you.
Can’t wait for the book to land!
Really cool to hear that. Thank you! I definitely think both film and digital can look very similar, just a matter of figuring out the best way to get there, which can be tough.
@@KyleMcDougall Coincidentally (either that or I’m obsessed with the issue!) I just posted a comment about a particular ‘look’ available with film on Titania Hopper’s latest video. To do with softness, edges OOF areas and grain rather than colour this time. To save time I’ll paste it below if of any interest…
That look wouldn’t suit a lot of your work, such as the clean, wide atmospheric look of your south west US images for example, but maybe some weather related atmospheric, moody Welsh landscapes? Perhaps monochromatic…
“I often wonder what it is about film that appeals to me more than digital, when people (and software post processing) ‘say’ one can replicate the other. But every now and then I see an image that explains… look at a stilled view of Gordon Parks fashion shot at c.3’05”.
The way the grain adds to the softness is beautiful. It adds to the beauty. And digital noise never looks like that. Obviously it’s not relevant or suitable for all images or purposes but the lack of detail, sharpness, dynamic range is a positive here rather than a negative and the way out of focus areas and edges blend with and appear from film grain is a lovely tool to have.”
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
Definitely saving this one. Great Video!