Bill Lies Photography
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THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING
I believe that the photographic print is the creation of beauty. In the tonal range of the print, i work to see that the very best light is rich enough to make a thing beautiful, whether a lonely rock, a face, or mountains, waves and skies. As Emerson said, “as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.”
Takes talent to identify tonal trends of an image, and even more so to identify what does and does not work in a print. An image reads entirely differently when printed than it does when viewed on our mobile and DT screens. We still cannot reproduce the stunning visual world that we see with our eyes, but we are getting closer in the digital age.
There are unique benefits to acquiring a photographic print:
A print will always be there - it lasts a lifetime, probably lifetimes
A print doesn't need a screen to be enjoyed
A print separates the snap shooters from the photographers
A print has a higher value than the digital file
A print is an investment with perceived value
There is nothing more exquisite than holding in one's hands a well printed image made on fine paper.
