Creative Impression's Prints
We are the print section for Creative Impression's Studio, which focuses on studio photography. My experiences in the darkroom has taught me how important the print making side of photography is as well as how many different medias there are to print on if you take a little time and ingenuity to work it all out. I love using Liquid Light to do B/W prints on wood, and I'm really enjoying doing prints on plexi-glass, aluminum and other unique media.
Here, you can order prints of our work or you may send us files to print them for you.
What makes our printing different?
When it comes to printing, there are many options that most consumers don't know about and many commercial photographers don't know as well. Most professional photolabs use 8bit jpg images to do their printing from. This is becuase the chemical process doesn't allow for the full color range of our digital cameras. Most DSLR cameras shoot in either 12 or 14bit color, not 8, so we lose some details in our images when using a chemical process.
If you are using the standard settings in photo editing software, it will default to 8bit, sRGB as well, though you can change this. However, if you don't change your camera settings, it really doesn't matter as the camera, by default, is often set to the same settings.
What we allow fine art photographers to do is take pictures with the broadest color gamut available with their camera and to use color profiles that also allow a greater amount of color and 16bit color, even though these files are large. A person will then run the print through the system, again using a 16bit printer driver, so that we can watch over and control the print as it goes through. It is not run through any automatic system and not seen by anyone until it is printed.
Because this is a hands on process for us, it allows us to load special media into the printer in order to make some unique prints, like printing an image on treated plexi-glass or leather.
All of this allows us to make our own prints with a greater amount of detail and pushing the boundries of what some may consider to be a photograph.