PHOTOGRAPHY: Rob Haines Print Club

[Rob_Haines]

I know I've shared some of my photography previously, and at some of the monthly pubs, so I thought I should tell you folks about my new photo print shop



I bought myself a professional printer earlier this year, and decided I was confident enough in my work to start selling prints of the best of my photos. I'm slowly putting new prints up over the summer as/when I get time to do test runs and make sure I'm 100% happy with the results! I think this one's currently my favourite:



In addition, I'm also running a monthly membership - with different tiers for digital wallpapers, physical postcard prints or A5 prints - where each month I send subscribers my favourite photo from the month, alongside context for the shot or a short microfiction.

My goal long-term is to see if I can build this up to a point where I can take more time off between my dayjob contracts to do more photography, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes!

[Rob_Haines]

(For the monthly membership I'm usually cutting off new subscriptions on the 20th of each month to give me time to put everything together, but if anyone here is interested in joining, let me know and I'll include you in the June delivery.)

[Jubal]

Aw, these are great. The wren is an extremely cute shot

Do you do much post-process on your photos/adjust colour balances etc, or are these fairly as-is?

[Rob_Haines]

Thank you! The wren was just hopping around in my driveway one day, and my cat got my attention to come look at the invader out the window

I definitely do some post-processing on my best shots, but do my best to keep it in the realm of reality. There's often a degree of brightness and contrast loss between what my eye sees and what the camera can capture - and doing a bunch of photography definitely draws attention to how impressive the human eye handles changing light levels - so I usually do a few nudges to bring it back to what I recall seeing.

Depending on the amount of light in the original scene, the images sometimes need a little sharpening and/or noise reduction in places, so I get a lot of use of my art tablet painting in masking layers for various adjustments to get the effect I want.

(I also have to do two edited versions of each photo, one for web and one for print, since the amount of reflected light off even a glossy paper is so much less than from projected from a monitor or phone screen. Lots of nuances!)