kmocabee

Great info and link. Very helpful. Thanks

V-man

Bingo, ORpilot...and 'nuff said.

V-man
Everett, WA

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

i wet print my work, for black and white, in my darkroom. i see no reason to go through using a scanner when i use film and develop my own.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

And there’s nothing like watching an archivally permanent print emerge from a high-end Epson inkjet printer, either.

Digital photography isn’t much about instant gratification. It’s about efficient usage. More than 90% today’s of images are viewed ONLY on screens - smartphones, tablets, computers, and TV monitors or projectors.

I do training content development. Most of my work is on intranets within company firewalls. There, it exists as videos, PowerPoints, PDF files, and parts of eLearning modules.

Most of my personal work is shared on iPhones and iPads and computers.

Although I worked in a professional portrait color lab for decades, I make fewer than 25 prints per year. The print market is now tiny, compared to 1993. It has shrunk steadily since the dawn of the World Wide Web.

clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa

[quote=burkphoto]And there’s nothing like watching an archivally permanent print emerge from a high-end Epson inkjet printer, either.

Digital photography isn’t much about instant gratification. It’s about efficient usage. More than 90% today’s of images are viewed ONLY on screens - smartphones, tablets, computers, and TV monitors or projectors.

You are right, though it’s probably closer to 99% go unprinted. I love digital prints and recognize the infinantly easier manipulation in color photos on a computer or in a frame, however I know that I’ll be hanging the print after taking the time to print it in a darkroom. Fortunately I have a more than adequate dark room for B&W printing. I find that I personally am more thoughtful when exposing film although I do take more “chances” with digital. Right tool for the right result. I’m pretty sure with you experience and expertise you didn’t switch to digital because it was harder, but because it fits your needs. Imagine trying to conduct your business with chemistry instead of 0’s and 1’s. Right tool for the right result.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

[quote=clint f.]

Originally, the industry I was in (school portraiture) was all film-based. Herff Jones Photography Division started low resolution scanning for small prints in 1995, and switched to high-res scanning in 2001, along with mini-lab printing of portrait packages and other products. Over the same period, we closed one of our four labs. Then, between 2001 and 2008, we closed two other labs. Meanwhile, we were "eating smaller fish" — dealers with optical labs who wanted out (bankers would not finance digital transitions because they were too late). We went to full digital production with wet printing in 2007 (no more film). But the rise of social media, image sharing sites, the iPhone and other smartphones, and the recession killed our bottom line. Our parent company sold our division to Lifetouch (big kahuna of mass portraiture) in 2011. Now they have their own struggles... They closed our former lab in early 2015.