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LAURA BANASIAK
November 27, 2011
November 26, 2011
Free Daily Download- Saturday
WELCOME to day 6 (SIX) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
Check out what else Laura has for you HERE.
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 25, 2011
Free Daily Download- Friday
WELCOME to day 5 (FIVE) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 24, 2011
Free Daily Download- Thursday
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
WELCOME to day 4 (FOUR) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 23, 2011
Free Daily Download- Wednesday
WELCOME to day 3 (THREE) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
Check out what else Laura has for you HERE.
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 22, 2011
Free Daily Download- Tuesday
WELCOME to day 2 (TWO) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
Check out what else Laura has for you HERE.
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 21, 2011
Free Daily Download - Monday
WELCOME to day 1 (ONE) of the Persnickety Prints
Sponsored by the amazing Laura Banasiak!
Come by each day this week
November 21- 27
for a free coordinating download!
Check out what else Laura has for you HERE.
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LAURA BANASIAK
November 18, 2011
Photofinishing in the 21st Century
Not long ago you would buy a roll of film at your local drug store, load it into your 35mm camera, and shoot sparingly. Return the exposed roll to the same drug store, and wait for prints.
The photo finishing industry has changed dramatically just in the last decade. Today, we can snap a photo and view images instantly.
Easy doesn’t always mean better. Film was film, you got what you got. But in this new digital era there are so many different options that can really impact the overall quality of your images.
RGB or CMYK? 8 bit or 16 bit, or more? JPG or TIFF? RGB, sRGB, Adobe 1998 RGB, or ProPhoto? DPI or PPI?... and if so, 72, 150 or 300? CS5 or Elements? ISO, megapixels, aperture, shutter speed, Nikon vs. Canon?..... you get the point, right?
RGB or CMYK? 8 bit or 16 bit, or more? JPG or TIFF? RGB, sRGB, Adobe 1998 RGB, or ProPhoto? DPI or PPI?... and if so, 72, 150 or 300? CS5 or Elements? ISO, megapixels, aperture, shutter speed, Nikon vs. Canon?..... you get the point, right?
Do the images stay on the memory card?
Do you save them to your hard drive only to be viewed as a screensaver?
What happens when your hard drive crashes? With advancing technology, will memory cards become obsolete?
Solution: Print.
- Printing at home with an inkjet printer. Is it archival? When was the last time you printed a good number of prints on that printer? Special archival based paper is so expensive... and then there's the ink. Inkjet printing is not archival unless you are using specific products. Is it waterproof? Will it last hundreds of years?
- Photographic Printing. Unlike an inkjet print where the ink sits susceptible, on the surface of the paper, traditional photographic printing is exposed by light, processed in photo chemicals just like in an old fashioned dark room.Photographic printing is the most archival as the image is embedded into the paper. This process is not limited to ink colors.
Premium Printing: Persnickety Prints.
Photographic Printing (see #2 above).
Prejudging/Optimizing. We look at every single image to determine if it needs to be lightened, darkened, color enhanced or slight contrast added. Other "labs" typically run the images in auto mode.
Silver halide photo paper (not the photo paper in the electronics department at your local Wal-mart) is advanced from a light-tight container, trimmed to the size requested, and proceeds past the laser exposure unit where paper is exposed with a latent image. The laser light source literally engraves the image into the emulsion on the paper.
The photographic developer is a chemical that makes the latent image on the print visible. It does this by reducing the silver halides that have been exposed to light to elemental silver in the gelatin matrix. The bleach fix stops that development process. The bleach fix stabilizes the image, removing the unexposed silver halide remaining on the photo emulsion, leaving behind the reduced metallic silver that forms the image, making it insensitive to further action by light.
After taking a bath in four separate wash tanks and drying off in a quick dry cycle, we have a perfectly printed Persnickety Print. This entire process takes about 3-4 minutes for one print.
Enlargements
Enlargements from 16x20's up to 30x40 are handled in our dark room (yes, it's completely dark). We have a similar machine to the Noritsu, but on a much larger scale. It's what we call our hidden little secret. This machine works much like the Noritsu, except it has a light-emitting diode that exposes the paper and the prints must be processed by hand.
It’s all about Chemistry. To achieve a “persnickety” print, the emulsion in the paper must be tested and balanced to it's corresponding light source. That same light source must be maintained and calibrated. Even the photo chemicals need to be checked and balanced. With too much or too little paraphenylene diamine in the developer, the prints will never come out with the appropriate color. It is a science.
It is what we do at Persnickety Prints.
We are P e r s n i c k e t y.
-Devin Peirce
November 15, 2011
Big Picture Giveaway
Big Picture Class G I V E A W A Y
Did you know that 99% of professional photographers post-process their photos? Post-processing has dramatically changed over the years. Back in the non-digital age, post-processing meant taking a photo into the darkroom and adjusting exposure, color, contrast and more to get the best photo possible. In the digital world, post-processing means uploading your photos to a computer, opening them in a post-processing program and adjusting little sliders to get AMAZING results! Little changes can have the biggest impact!
One lucky commenter will recieve a seat to Elisha Snow's Post Processing Workshop.
4 week workshop
ABOUT THIS CLASS: You will learn how to upload any digital photo into Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom, and adjust it to get the perfect exposure, color, white balance and more. You’ll learn many post-processing tricks such as smoothing skin, swapping heads, getting the best black-and-white effect, adding texture, creating vignettes, preparing a photo for printing.
How it works
Giveaway is CLOSED!
Thanks to all who entered! Even if you aren't our lucky winner- you can STILL take this self-paced class! Starts November 24th.
We have our winner! LUCKY number 21! -BERNADETTE!
TO ENTER: Post a C O M M E N T
"What is your favorite subject to shoot?" (with a camera silly!)
"What is your favorite subject to shoot?" (with a camera silly!)
{one winner will be chosen at random. giveaway ends Friday November 18. 12 noon MST.}
Thanks to all who entered! Even if you aren't our lucky winner- you can STILL take this self-paced class! Starts November 24th.
We have our winner! LUCKY number 21! -BERNADETTE!
November 13, 2011
How to Create Calendars using our software
Custom Calendars
A Quick Video Tutorial on HOW to create a Calendar with our free online software.
Custom Calendar from Shabby Miss Jenn Designs
For visual instruction see our Step-by-Step Tutorial
Get started with yours today!
To order completed single sided calendars, CD calendars, and 4x8 flate note calendars, bypass this software, and upload and order as a single "print" option.
November 12, 2011
Inspiring Photographers, Amanda Peterson
One of the many perks of working at Persnickety Prints is being inspired by our over the top creative friends! (that's you)
When local photographer, Amanda Peterson, came in to pick up this mounted 8x20 "Shoe Collage" she created for a bride, I just had to share.
What a G R E A T I D E A!
There are more weddings in Utah than there are aspen trees.
How does a wedding photographer stand out from the rest? By "personalizing" the wedding of course!
I mean, these things only happen once, right? (or two, or three times, but still...)
Amanda takes the time to know her clients, their style, their personality, and makes them shine with her lens.
When local photographer, Amanda Peterson, came in to pick up this mounted 8x20 "Shoe Collage" she created for a bride, I just had to share.
What a G R E A T I D E A!
How does a wedding photographer stand out from the rest? By "personalizing" the wedding of course!
I mean, these things only happen once, right? (or two, or three times, but still...)
Amanda takes the time to know her clients, their style, their personality, and makes them shine with her lens.
Amanda's Blog is filled with inspiration.
Her focus is the story behind each photo.
Thank You Amanda, for inspiring me.
-Chari
Amanda Peterson Photography, Utah
November 8, 2011
Neon Christmas
It's 2011.
Neon is everywhere
Make everyone's Christmas Brighter with a Persnickety Prints Card-
Free Digital Download via Box.net HERE
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November 6, 2011
Keyline Bordered Prints
How much hard-drive space are your digital photos stealing?
Probably more than you think!
There are many ways to take care of this dilemma .....
How? Well, for one, you can print them with Persnickety Prints!
The Persnickety process is not only the most archival, but waterproof as well. No need to bog up your computer storage with photo's you don't know what to do with-- print em out! show em off!
Even the basic 3.5x5 and 4x6 can be creative, artistic, and worth it's weight in silver (no pun intended, but yes, there is actual "silver" in our silver halide photo paper!).
> Bordered Prints are a favorite among our Photographers and Project Life Artists.
Prints arrive looking sleek and ready to showcase with one of our simple borders.- keyline
- reverse keyline
- white border
- black border
Upload HERE
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