Printing

I don't think I need to write loads about the process of printing, what I used, how I did it - blah blah blah.

I think a persons print speaks for itself, it shows their mood, their feelings etc.

I do believe the more time you put in the more you get out of your final print, but also if you take the pressure off yourself of say the final hand in date and just create, you address the process of printing in a whole different way.

My first mistake when printing was trying to make the print perfect, almost digital. We live in a world where we are told how things should look - the 3D HD super smart TV with its super intense vivacious saturated colours, making half the world believe that Hollywood is so bright and the people have an orange glow. The TV's leaving the manufacturers with pre-programmed settings telling you how to view the world, telling us this is the true green, blue and red.

For this reason I experimented a little, especially with one particular image of a stand alone tree breaking through a concrete slab, where once stood some world war II pilots living quarters. I remembered back to when I was a kid and my parents used to take me to Great Yarmouth every year on holiday (wow LoL, those were the days). My dad had this big pentax camera over his shoulder, coz everyone is a photographer, taking the usual holiday snaps. He'd get the film processed, made in to slides and we would sit and see our whole experience on a pull down screen with the lights out and a glass of ginger beer.
The colours I remember were fantastic, I don't remember whilst being there seeing the world through a yellow or green tint, seeing blurred distorted faces or bright halos where peoples heads should be.
My experimentation could be looked at as though I was printing wrong - "there's green in that", "no, no I see yellow" everybody has a different eye - yet Ant says he has the best one ;-) LoL
But something must have gone right, people liked my prints - so much so that I've lost a few to family, may be they reminice too about the good old days.

So although I print to get close to reality, although my first goal was for saturation and vivacious colour, as I've progressed through the long autumn evenings in the colour darkroom, I finally think I'm improving and enjoying bringing my visions to life.