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About Fine Art Prints
Quick Facts for All Fine Art Prints (full details below):
• Fine Art Color Prints are produced in limited editions of 500
• Fine Art B&W Prints are produced in limited editions of 200
• Each Fine Art Print will be offered in five different sizes
• Each Fine Art Print is personally signed by Tim O’Connor
• Each Fine Art Print comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity
• All images were captured with medium format cameras and film
• All images scanned with Hell 3800 drum scanner
• All images are printed with a LightJet laser printer
• All images are printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Professional Photographic paper/ lustre finish
• Print life of over 50 years if properly cared for
• FREE SHIPPING on all domestic Fine Art Print orders
• Please keep in mind that image color and tonality will vary with your monitor's setting and type
Introduction
I am very pleased and proud to offer limited edition fine art photographic prints for sale at Tim O’Connor Photography. Each Color image in my Fine Art Gallery will be produced in limited editions of 500 prints. Each of my Black & White images will be produced in limited editions of 200 prints. The small number in both the Color and Black & White editions will be particularly attractive to buyers who are looking for an investment that will appreciate over time, especially once the edition sells out. Once a specific image sells out, it will never be available for sale again by Tim O’Connor Photography. There are many other aspects of my Fine Art Prints which I feel are very important and which I will discuss in detail below.
Quality of the Fine Art Prints
My highest priority has always been to capture images of the highest quality and I have also applied that priority to the printing process of my Fine Art Prints. To begin with, all images were originally captured with medium format cameras (please see my
equipment link for more information). The images are then converted to a digital file with a Hell 3800 drum scanner. I have personally done many tests comparing the Hell 3800 with the Tango drum scanner and other high resolution flatbed scanners and there simply is no comparison in terms of resolution, clarity and detail, all of which are of the utmost importance to me. I then personally examine each digital file in Photo Shop where I make color corrections and eliminate any minor flaws in the file. The Fine Art Images are then printed using a LightJet laser printer on Fuji Crystal Archive Professional Photographic Paper, which has a life expectancy of over 50 years. All Fine Art Prints are printed with a lustre finish. Other finishes (matte or glossy) are available by special request via phone (402-504-4728) or email at
fineart@timoconnorphoto.com
Please keep in mind that image color and tonality will vary with your computer monitor's setting and type.
Also remember that It is extremely important to protect your Fine Art Print from direct sunlight at all times!
About Black & White Fine Art Prints
My goal with my Black & White images is to create very dramatic and powerful images. To attain this goal I personally edit each image in Photo Shop to arrive at the specific look and feel that I want to see in each Black & White image. The end results are striking images which often contain a high amount of contrast between the highlights and shadows.
A Special Note:
All Fine Art Color images can be printed as Black & Whites, but I think it is important to mention that some color images are just not very well suited to become Black & White prints. As an example; a beautiful color image of wildflowers in a meadow, which contains lots of greens, purples, yellows and reds, becomes a meadow of neutral gray in a Black & White print. There is little if any contrast between the colors and it becomes very difficult to see all the individual flowers. As a result of situations like this, I have been very careful in my selection of images for the Fine Art Black & White Gallery, and have chosen only images which I personally feel would make exceptional Black & White prints.
Fine Art Print Sizes and General Information
All images in the Fine Art Gallery will be offered in five sizes with 1 being the smallest and 5 being the largest. Size 5 images are the maximum size that I personally recommend for typical home and office environments. At this size, the resolution of the image will be outstanding and the grain of the film will be negligible. However, by special request, we do offer custom prints in sizes up to approximately 50” high and 120” wide. These larger size images look exceptional, and are extremely impressive, but are better suited for very large rooms or lobby's. With these larger size images, the grain of the film will become progressively more evident as the size of the image increases and are best viewed from a short distance away.
All images are printed with a 1-2 inch white border (based on the size of the image) along the top and both sides of the image. The bottom border will be slightly wider to accommodate the limited number (IE: 157/500) in the left corner, the image title, area & state, and by Tim O’Connor (centered beneath the image) and my signature which appears in the lower right corner of the white border. By special request, we offer two other options for the placement of the limited edition number and my signature (please see the Signature Options page). Please keep in mind that the Print Size refers to the size of the image including the white border, and Image Size refers to the actual size of the photograph.
I thoroughly examine each image for any flaws prior to shipping and then I professionally package your order in a heavy duty 6” inch diameter shipping tube. All orders are shipped via UPS, although we can ship via FedEx on request
Fine Art Prints (LightJet Digital Laser Printer) vs. Posters (Lithographs)
I think it is important to take a minute to explain the differences between these two types of printing processes.
To put it very simply, the LightJet digital laser printer uses three lasers to expose an image on photographic paper, while in a lithograph, ink is directly transferred to the paper to create its image. A lithograph print is produced by applying very small dots of ink onto the paper. The dots are made up of 4 colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black and are referred to as CMYK. Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are "subtractive colors." In theory, if you combine all three inks on the paper, they should absorb all the light shown on them. Your eyes see no reflected light from the paper, and you perceive the color black. The reality is that a dark murky brown color is actually created, and thus black is added to produce the color black, and to make other dark colors more more realistic and attractive. Lithograph printing is also referred to as “offset printing” or “four color printing.” Media produced in large quantities such as books, magazines, cards, or my posters are examples of lithographs. The end result of a lithograph can be very spectacular if you start with a high quality image, but as nice as a lithograph can be… a photographic print is superior.
With the LightJet printer, three lasers (Red, Green and Blue light) expose your image into the chemically treated, light sensitive, Fuji Crystal Archive paper. Red, Green, and Blue light are the "additive colors”… when combined you get white “light.” The shortcomings of RGB vs. CMYK are that it is a more time consuming printing process and it is also much more expensive on a per image basis. The advantages, however, of RGB over CMYK printing are considerable! The first major advantage is that in the RGB color space you have a much wider or broad range of colors and you also can render them more accurately than is possible when printing in the CMYK color space. The other major advantage of RGB is the increased longevity, or life of your print, which should retain its color for well over 50 years if the print is cared for properly.
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