Lakes On The Wall
Product Info - Photography Info - FAQs
Things To Know About Ordering Your Print
CHOOSING YOUR PRINT
BE AWARE: Owners of Windows monitors sometimes do not have them calibrated to international colour and brightness/contrast standards which are needed for you to see my prints the same as I do. If you the images in the galleries look too bright, dark and have bad colour, you may need to attend to this first. Not ignoring deliberate creativity my images blacks and whites are measured and cailibrated mathematically.
BETTER: The internet is capable of only showing about 35% of what your eyes are capable of seeing. My professional standard inkjet print can do far better than this and you should be pleasantly surprised!
THE PAPER
YOUR CHOICE: On the order form, choose which paper or canvas you’d like.
MATTE: With less contrast, subtle, perfectly smooth, no reflections, perfectly beautiful.
HEAVY WATERCOLOR: Matte. Thick and heavily textured, this is for a ‘painting’ and ‘artwork’ effect.
METALLIC PEARLE: A high-gloss top-end product which has replaced pure white with a light silver and is best for sharp, bold, bright, highly colored subjects.
CANVAS: Actual, real canvas in semi-gloss for max quality. No spray-coat required, great for stretching and hanging as is, looks the real thing because it is.
HOW TO ORDER - IT'S EASY!
FIRST: Choose your image and take note of the order number by hovering above the image in the original gallery.
SECOND: Go to “ORDER” page. Fill in the form and submit.
THIRD: you will be taken to the Paypal site where you will then decide to pay by credit card or Paypal, after which you will receive a confirmation email.
BELOW: Is a sample finished form found at the ORDER page.
CONTACT
Any questions about the work, locations, photographic details, prices or special needs please contact me directly through this address:
givenworks1 @gmail.com
Bespoke work and larger sizes available.
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THE PHOTOGRAPHER
To begin with...I have been a professional photographer since 1983. I had my own busy studio for nearly 20 years in a suburb of Melbourne. These were the film years and I covered somewhere around 600 weddings, many more portraits and lots of commercial assignments. I used cameras from 35mm to various 120 film sizes and even 5×4 inch. I had a 6×17 panoramic camera also, ‘for fun’.
Big changes…In 2000 I was becoming burnt-out in various ways and knew I had to accept changes, including the switch from film to digital and computers. I sold the studio and much of my equipment and became exclusively a ‘landscape only’ practitioner. This also demanded I learn about the printing industry and preparing works for publication. The results were numerous product creations including books, greeting cards, postcards, posters, framed photographic art etc.
Bigger changes…The next change came with the inescapable truth that many of these items are now greatly reduced or have disappeared due to computers, the smart phone and the internet. Through this time I travelled vastly in Australia and New Zealand and the large number of landscape images I have now form the backbone of my latest and last direction as I work from home and everything is now viewed and ordered online. I believe that one website to show much of my work would be huge and cumbersome so I have divided my work into many niche-sites where you can find your special subject interest quickly and in more detail.
What matters…Yes, I have some awards, teaching experience and various other ‘boasts’ I could write about but the only thing that matters now is that as you examine my work and receive your order, you know it has been shot with the best of professional equipment, achieved with much hard work and at times discomfort, and printed with the very best technology and long-lasting, expensive ink available to achieve the best…and you enjoy your investment!
TELL ME SOME ANSWERS TO FAQS!
Do you use Photoshop as part of the creative process?
Photoshop – is used in the creation of every professional digital image because it is part of the digital process. I use it as a tool for image-making, removing image pollution and marks, adding the creative such as a texture, style of sepia, or softness. If elements are added or multiple images are combined so that the image becomes my construction it will be labelled as “composite”.
WHAT is a Giclee print?
It’s a fancy name for an inkjet print of the highest quality possible using top end paper for fineart purposes.
WHO does your printing?
I do; it is a little known fact that a great deal of time and expertise accompanies the printing process in order to get correct colour and beautiful results. Taking the image and working on the computer is dominated by creativity; printing the result is a discipline of measurement and exact procedure, best done by the photographer.
There has long been a friendly debate in the music world between vinyl vs. digital – does the same happen with film vs. digital in the photographic world?
To a lesser extent; music is more subjective whereas image creation can be compared a lot more mathematically in most major criteria. There are still valid subjective reasons why some people prefer one to another, but few professionals use film anymore.
IN this digital age, why do you have an exclusively film panoramic website? [filmpanoramics.com]
I have shot over 2000 frames of film in my film-only panoramic camera @ 4 frames per roll. Many would say there is a quality to film that is not present in digital. I do know that very few films were actually or deliberately kept as ‘neutral’ as possible in their characteristics . This applies especially to the most common ‘landscape film’ which was exaggerated deliberately in certain colour areas and was also affected by UV light and reciprocity in its own ways which turned out beautiful, if not completely honest, landscape imagery. These can be considered either redundant or precious.
WHY is all postage free for your prints?
Because it makes things a lot simpler and quicker for getting product out to my clients everywhere.
DO you use AI?
No images in any of my websites have been or ever will be created by AI.
DO you still use your 6×17 panoramic camera?
No, I merge up to 7 frames per image in Photoshop using my digital camera which now far exceeds the quality of any film. It also gives the choice of lots of lenses.
WHAT is your favourite subject?
Anywhere in the world that my photographic eyes tell me would make a great image!
HAVE digital and phone cameras made things harder to be a professional these days?
Enormously; a massive number of assignments no longer exist, a lot of ‘us’ have disappeared. Many are fooled that because the technology can create what appear to be technically good images for them, all they need to do is point and press. But the gulf between professional and amateur talent remains as large as ever. Camera makers know this, which is why they still offer seriously high-end cameras which cost a bomb and produce such amazing quality. And, fortunately, technology cannot take away human ability in the creative; there will always be those who produce the outstanding compared with the majority, because they produce from the heart and their gifting; this is why some people still are willing to pay for the exceptional; but with a culture of wanting ‘free’ stuff saturating the web, it’s harder than ever, especially starting.