More like a photographers home

Morph3ous

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I've finally got round to getting my home looking more like a photographers home, by having some of my images printed and framed. I continue to be impressed with DSCL, their speed, quality and packaging are really very good.

I've put one of my London prints up in the kitchen, but this picture doesn't really do it justice. It looks great in person. Image is 91cm x 61cm.



I've also got a nice row of B&W images of the kids running down the hallway as you come in the front door. A4 images.




Untitled by Minnis Photography, on Flickr

Getting there! :)
 
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My home looks nothing like that, mine has camera bags, lenses, filters, boxes, film canisters etc strewn about all over the pace.
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
My home looks nothing like that, mine has camera bags, lenses, filters, boxes, film canisters etc strewn about all over the pace.
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I have all my kit tucked away safe and tidy. Everything else is strewn all over the place.
 
The square images of your family, are those printed by instacanvas?
 
KayJay said:
The square images of your family, are those printed by instacanvas?
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No mate. They're A4 prints from DSCL mounted in a box frame.
 
Far to tidy :D

:plusone: for DSCL
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
My home looks nothing like that, mine has camera bags, lenses, filters, boxes, film canisters etc strewn about all over the pace.
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Same here broken Nikon F5 been sitting on widow sill for god know how many years,cameras bags in every room,plus old lens hoods and filters in every room :D
 
Hi,

Those pictures look great. Getting images printed is far lower down on my to-do list than it should be. Did DSCL do the framing and mounting? If so, could you please send a link to that part of their website as I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Cheers,

Sid.
 
The only pictures I have hanging in our house are mine.

The only exception is the living room, which has 6 wedding pictures hanging which I can't bring myself to replace just yet and a canvas of the artwork around which our wedding was themed.

What's the point in spending all that money on kit, and all that time standing ankle deep in cold mud, if the results are only going to sit on a hard drive somewhere? :shrug:
 
They look really good! I use dscl for my prints and they are fantastic quality. I usually get 15x10 prints done and can't fault them at all!

Sidney said:
Hi,

Those pictures look great. Getting images printed is far lower down on my to-do list than it should be. Did DSCL do the framing and mounting? If so, could you please send a link to that part of their website as I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Cheers,

Sid.
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I imagine that op mounted and framed them themselves, not sure if dscl offer framing?
 
Most of my arty black and white photographs are of mongy old factories and quarries, not really for general consumption, so I've only got the one on the wall in my study. Actually, we have some collages of our holiday travels around the world, but after a while you don't notice your pictures on the wall do you?
 
lovely job, really like the layout of the B&W's
 
The frames are all from The Range.
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
My home looks nothing like that, mine has camera bags, lenses, filters, boxes, film canisters etc strewn about all over the pace.
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Jao said:
What he said:)
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yep, same here, plus a couple of dead film and digital bodies thrown into the mix for good measure to complete the whole scenario.
 
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Another fan of DSCL used them for all my first year and second year work at uni and recommend to clients. Very fast, very cost effective for the quality.

Only ever heard of one problem where a girl from uni claimed she got an order missing some prints, from my experience of DSCL i'd imagine shot got what she ordered!
 
Looking fab! I need to get some of mine printed too as its really nice having proper framed prints on the wall.

Time for a trip to The Range too, as those frames look good. Did you do the mounting yourself as you've got something printed at the bottom of the London picture's mount haven't you?
 
Looks great. Got to get round to getting a couple of mine printed.

TopBanana said:
Did you do the mounting yourself as you've got something printed at the bottom of the London picture's mount haven't you?
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It looks like a border around the actual image to me, rather than print on the mounting, i may be wrong like.
 
The large Millennium Bridge/St Paul's shot isn't mounted, it's a border I made in Photoshop as pointed out. The Range didn't sell mounted frames that large so I created a mount style border with my photography signature and had it printed the right size to fit the frame.
 
Morph3ous said:
The large Millennium Bridge/St Paul's shot isn't mounted, it's a border I made in Photoshop as pointed out. The Range didn't sell mounted frames that large so I created a mount style border with my photography signature and had it printed the right size to fit the frame.
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I am thinking of doing the same thing with one of my shots. Can I ask, how did you get the whole image (including the border) the exact right size for printing, to ensure there is no stretching/squashing during printing?
 
My frame is 36 x 24 inches, and I knew DSCL would do a 36 x 24 size print.

- Create a new document in Photoshop which is 36 x 24 with 300dpi resolution and a white background.
- Place the photograph onto the document as a separate layer
- With the photograph layer selected, Edit > Transform (Or Ctrl+T)
- Hold down the Shift key as you drag the photograph to the correct size to keep its ratio intact
- I used the rulers/grid set at 1 inch squares to place the photograph with a two inch border all the way around, with a slightly deeper bottom edge as I think it looks better that way when you type something underneath the photograph
- Create another layer and use this for you type. Or in my case, my simple watermark/signature. Use the grid again to makesure its centred correctly using the Move tool
- Done

There may be simpler or quicker ways from those that are better with PS, but this worked for me.
 
Morph3ous said:
My frame is 36 x 24 inches, and I knew DSCL would do a 36 x 24 size print.

- Create a new document in Photoshop which is 36 x 24 with 300dpi resolution and a white background.
- Place the photograph onto the document as a separate layer
- With the photograph layer selected, Edit > Transform (Or Ctrl+T)
- Hold down the Shift key as you drag the photograph to the correct size to keep its ratio intact
- I used the rulers/grid set at 1 inch squares to place the photograph with a two inch border all the way around, with a slightly deeper bottom edge as I think it looks better that way when you type something underneath the photograph
- Create another layer and use this for you type. Or in my case, my simple watermark/signature. Use the grid again to makesure its centred correctly using the Move tool
- Done

There may be simpler or quicker ways from those that are better with PS, but this worked for me.
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Makes perfect sense, thanks for that!
 
Great stuff.

For PS Users, to align the text centrally you can click on your image layer in the layers palette, hold ctrl and click the text layer, to select both layers. Select the move tool (ctrl-v) then an "align" option appears at the top, select horizontal centre and your text snaps to bang in the middle.
 
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