Amateur Photographer

Get yourself into print

The joy of photography is being out there with the camera and the great thing about digital is that you can shoot thousands upon thousands of shots at no cost. Of course, you won’t print out every picture you take, but you will occasionally strike gold and get a keeper that deserves to be printed out nice and big on lovely paper, framed and hung up.

You could delegate the responsibility of getting prints made to a printing business so that all you’ll have to do is upload files and within a couple of days, the final prints will be with you.

Home printing, however, is even faster and you’ll be admiring the final print minutes after pushing the print key. Not only that, but you have total control and there is a truly enormous choice of printing papers on the market. You could go for a painterly feel on a textured paper, a flat fine art matt finish or use a baryta paper for the unglazed glossy look of a traditional darkroom print.

There are plenty of printers out there too,

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