Pentax K-1 smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR ƒ/8.0 100.0 mm 1/160 iso100
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Originally posted by jabobby Eric, The valley my friend lives in is so pretty, he & I love sitting on the porch or up on the slope and just enjoying the view. No I have not made prints as yet, but still plan to. Where & how are you doing the prints?
Funny you mention the rolling slide show on the 60" monitor...another friend of mine a photographer, has such a monitor hooked up to his computer & when I visit he checks out my shots the rolling way. Of course he stops on some shots to nitpick the pixels.
Best Regards, Bob
When I was doing weddings back in my Pentax 645 film days, I found and used Reedy Photo ever since. (they are a reasonable drive, almost local to me, but also have a booming mail order pro business) Great lab, great work for 8x10 and up. For small stuff and cutesy photo books, there are a plethora of on-line places with "wizzards" where you can build your own.
Even the lowly drugstores like Walgreen's photo lab can do a photo-book nowadays, but Blurb dot com is probably the most popular, and has decent pricing and lots of choices. I do these books for my friends & family, for special occasions, etc . I like them because I can put them on a coffee table or on a shelf, buy extra's to give away as they make great gifts etc. It is so nice to see your own work professionally laid out and bound into a book . The feeling is hard to describe, but I'll say it's good for the ego.
Don't forget, I (and you from the sound of it) came from a generation where we could only dream of being lucky enough to have our work published by some big company who deemed our work worthy. Now, we can self-publish on the cheap, whether our work is total crap or great
For framing, shipping is expensive and frames are delicate. The recently popular frame-less or metallic or even wood block prints are done by a lot of mail order places now, and available from some of our forum sponsors like Adorama, B&H, etc.
Eric