The Global Photographer

If you are interested in creating better photographic prints, I am now offering private full-day mentoring sessions at my printing studio. This is an opportunity for you and I to work side by side to create beautiful prints from your own digital files. We can work on whatever you wish to work on, from digital capture to Lightroom workflow to digital output. The world is your oyster, and I am here to assist. Typical items that are usually covered:

• Color management
• Lightroom processing and workflow
• Soft proofing
• Black and white printing
• What to look for in a good print
• Paper choices
• Print sharpening
• Upsizing files for large format output
• Editing images for a portfolio
• Mat cutting and presentation ideas

These sessions are very informal, and are designed around getting information to you that is relative to your goals.

My location and equipment

Here is the equipment that I have in my studio in Houston, Texas (Memorial area, west of downtown):

• Canon iPF 8100 large format 44" 12-ink pigment ink printer
• HP Z3200 44" wide format pigment ink printer
• Canon iPF 5100 17" 12-ink pigment ink printer
• Epson Pro 3880 17" pigment ink printer
• Mac Pro desktop with 9GB of memory
• Dual LCD displays (Apple 30" Cinema and a 24")
• Speed Mat mat cutter and Rising 8-ply and 4-ply mats
• X-rite i1 and iO scanning table for profiling
• GTI display booth with D50 light source
• Epsn V750 flatbed scanner
• Plenty of workspace to layout prints
• All Moab Paper products, including Colorado Fiber Satine, Entrada Bright 300gsm, as well as Crane Silver Rag, Epson Exhibition Fiber, Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl and Photo Rag.

The Cost

The cost of this all day (8 hours) session is $950, and will include the use of all printing materials, matting materials and perhaps the use of my assistant's time if he is around to help out. A typical day will begin at 9am, and will end around 6pm. I have found it best to have a casual lunch break away from the studio to break the long day up. Oh, and lunch is on me.

The Signup process

All you need to do is to send me an email at andybiggs@gmail.com, and we can take it from there. My schedule is busy with Gura Gear and my photographic safaris, but we can carve out some time that works for both of us.