Advice on Printing your Images 

i don't know why but i find your videos very motivating to me

The best thing about printing, in my opinion, is that you get to show your work the way you intent it to. You choose the correct paper, the correct color profile, the correct lighting, whereas in digital you are stuck with the monitor of the viewer.

Your content is uncommonly refreshing. Keep up the great work Sean.

I print many of my own photos and hang them in my home. Periodically, I "rotate" them with new photos. I have found that it gives me an opportunity to critique my own work that is unique and very different from looking at them on a screen. It also pushes me to get out and find more images. Thanks for sharing this video!

I find this quite inspiring in that you didn't pretend that you know stuff, like many RU-vidrs do, even for remotely, but rather you sought out help and delivered a genuine point of view from a working printer who has close to 40 years of experience. I really appreciate that. Recently got into printing myself, not professionally yet but at home using a Canon PIXMA PRO‑100 Color Inkjet Photo Printer, and although it isn't the best printer to produce 'best work' but at the same time, it is what I have, and it definitely is an eye opening experience because I really saw the difference in post processing my landscape images between for screen and for paper. And having my work actually printed on paper made it feel more tangible. I am one of those who truly believes in the idea that you must physically make and create stuff to claim that it is yours. Thanks for the video. Cheers.

I watched this when you made it, but I wasnt far enough down my photography journey for it to resonate. But im back now and its resonating. Thank You for all your work. So comprehensive on many different levels.. and perfectly timed..

Absolutely love this, Sean. I love how calm and relaxing your videos are: your voice, the editing etc.

Really enjoy your videos & your unique perspective & appreciation for photography and art Sean. I’ve been struggling with staying motivated lately as I feel all artists do at times. But your videos & views often provide me with a unique insight & way of looking at photography that I’ve never considered. As modest as you are, you really are a true artist. 🙏🏻

Man, I dont know what, but there is something about your videos that is very refreshing and calming. Thank you

There is nothing better then to randomly stumble upon a video and then to find out, part of its content is about ones country and the beauty of it's people. From Namibia, thanks a lot indeed and this pushes me to be a subscriber also because of the wonderful video.

This is gold Sean! The experience of seeing the image on paper and living outside of a screen is priceless. It's a different and IMO better experience than anything a screen can deliver. To hold something tangible, to have it live in your space, whether it's a print or a book or any art-creates a relationship mentally and emotionally with the item that just doesn't happen on screen. Again IMO, this will only become more increasingly valuable as the world becomes more digital. There will always be people who collect physical books because the experience is one that a digital device can never provide.

Beautiful prints Sean, truly beautiful. Your videos are not only informative, but also very easy to watch, almost calming. Looking forward to more great content.

for me printing is an essential step in photography. well done Sean

Amazing and so true, most of my photos live in the digital world and have never been printed, and I feel that when printing the work you do, is like giving it a greater appreciation to that photo even if you are the only one who see it everyday and that's ok. Thank you so much for creating eye opening videos with a complete different perspective and keeping true to yourself.

It great to see your work up on your wall Sean. The three you chose were wonderful example of your fantastic style. They are art. Thank you. Tony

I know it's been a year since this video but i recently just got my work printed on canvas and it's such a different view and experience to my work come to light. Definitely makes me appreciate it so much more.

Amazin, well thought out video. And I must say I love your humble, down to Earth manner a lot more than the majority of the obnoxiously loud RU-vid photographers. Great work!

Hearing about your journey through life and how you bring that through your photography is inspiring me a lot. Thank you for sharing your life! Cheers!

Sean, this video was brilliant. It was brilliant to see your response to seeing your photo come to life. You genuinely looked like you enjoyed it thoroughly! 👍

undoubtedly your work IS art Sean!

Love your more conceptual videos man. These are the kinds of things I think about when I go out to shoot the street, or on my way home with me coffee. Keep it up! *binging your videos right now haha.

Such a beautiful image! Thanks to you and the other gentlemen for sharing

Getting photos in print just gives them this extra quality. And it has to do with committing to that image. Not always easy, but I feel like once it's done, you feel relieved, free even. It materialises all the work that's been put in. And when you put in the work to get the shot, why skimp on the last part by not taking it in to a professional lab. Great video, and of course, those portraits are amazing!

"I don't want to commit to that image" - I totally get that. I have yet to be happy with an image yet...nice vid. Thanks!

Love your work, both the photography and the video supporting it. Keep up this great work and know that you inspire a lot of us.

Your videos are nothing short of phenomenal. Thank you.

You inspired me once more again Sean. Thank you so much! Will definitely going to print some of my captures the next days.

someone asked me for a print today, I have never made any, this video could not have come at a better time. I love your work, photos and these videos, you can tell you really put all you have into it, thank you

Keep doing the good work Sean. It is very inspiring for me to watch your videos. Thank you.

Those prints are way beyond stunning!!!😲

Great video, i'm glad i could be part of your journey from digital to print. Your videos are not about ISO, shutter, gear. It's all about feelings you wan't to send to viewer. Thank you so much !!!

Wonderful video Sean, than you for taking the time to make this video, i found it very helpful. Absolutely stunning prints, they look lovely on your wall. I like the mount you have used.

Loved this. A really elegant telling of the process. Thanks for sharing

Another video clear and to the point! I've understood more in this short video then from all the reading done on line or at college! Thanks again! 🙏🏼

I'm old. I pre-date digital. By a lot. I had a darkroom in the early 1970s. My photographs are not done until they are printed. I call it art and I call myself an artist even though I don't make a dime on my art. Once on the wall, this is my history. It is my life, hung for me and those close to me to see, enjoy, re-live and critique as I progress. Pixels on Instagram are fleeting. On to the next picture for a three-second view and a like and then on to the next. So many likes but we crave even more. Not to mention that very few monitors are calibrated, so digital art isn't true to the photographer's intent. But on the wall -- that one image can have hundreds or thousands of hours of viewing and enjoyment. Digital is wonderful and there is less to pack and move when you buy a new house. But for me, digital is complete only when it is printed. Thanks for this video.

This make me one of my favorite photograph. Very motivating indeed. Thanks Sean.

New subscriber - just discovered you this morning on the Introvert videos. As a former photographer during the film days, a mistake I made was not seeing enough of my work - film and printing were expensive. Coming back almost 30yrs later I am committed to seeing my work. Bought a 13" printer (can't afford larger!) and am printing and framing prints. As an introvert I know the perfectionist side of things, but have grown to be able to accept my work as something which is a reflection of who I am. I am not perfect (and never will be), and neither will my work ever be perfect. But I can enjoy the good now and let go of the bad.

Thank you for your honesty in the beginning. I can relate

Beautiful shots! I'll be printing up some of my own this week now.

Sean, your images are art and not at all pretentious. Printing and framing your images completes the artistic process and brings the images to life.

Great video Sean, I recently had some of my shots printed and the 2 that I have on walls at home look superb. Its a totally different experience to have them to view this way. I think it makes my work feel more real, and it reminds me what it took to produce them.

Beautiful shots. Just lovely.

Thank you. I'm a newer subscriber and have enjoyed your videos immensely. I appreciate this overview, it's one area of my photography that I want to pursue more.

Brilliant work, Mr Tucker. You did good.

Love your work, love your videos ! Thank you so much for sharing all your advices !

I do a lot of printing for books. For "direct to plate" printers (since physical films are not in use anymore). The best advice I received long ago from a guy who began his career as a "scanner" for prints and transparencies is "lighten the mid-tones". I used his advice everyday since then with excellent results. Mid-tones have a tendency to clog when ink is involved. Even if your image sounds good on your screen, you have to make a "leap of faith". Lightening the mid-tones will add detail in that range and make your print more "readable".

Nice job! Also perfect work of juxtaposing and composing the frames!

thank you for your videos, Sean

COOOOOLLLL!! Some reactions from me whenever I watch ANY of your videos... "Oh wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one!" "Whoa it really is that simple. I definitely over complicate things (and rely on gear)." Also, your videos have the craziest Like / Dislike ratio. So many likes and very little dislikes. That says a lot about the genuine message behind you and your work. And yes, while you definitely aren't pretentious enough to call your work art - we, your viewers can call your work art and I may even go as far as saying your APPROACH to your craft, is in itself, art! Seriously, tons of thanks for all of it!

I love your work and what you have to say. Very thought provoking and inspirational.

You’re the best. Thank you for sharing your work.

Great video, once again. You are very good at these. Printing, for me, completes the cycle with photography. I don't print all that much, as I only print the images that I really like. However, I find that I look at, study even, images in a different way when they are printed and hung up than when they are on a screen.

Everything about this video is amazing! Thank you Sean! I will definitely take your advice.

Wow thank you for this amazing video, you just boosted my confidence level like 1000 folds!!!

Just getting into printing my own images and this video made so much sense.

Another excellent video. I was just thinking of getting some of my photos printed so this will come in really handy.

Have been thinking about this exact scenario, will give it try, thank you.

I needed this. Thank you.

Thanks for a great video. I've been recently rediscovering the joy of printing.

I frame my images at home and update them periodically with new ones that touch me more! Picture frames are easily updated! part of what I love about photography!

Stunning work :) doing some printing at the moment and although quite terrifying this video has put me at ease. It's just another process in the game of photography and the print feels like the conclusion.

As always, a great video! Thanks

I’ve just purchased a printer and have been immersing myself in RU-vid videos on the subject of printing my photographs and enjoyed your video very much, and yet couldn’t help feeling a bit saddened by your introduction. It’s probably just the fact that I am from a very different generation, but I have always considered that the things you own and surround yourself with are the very things that define who you are, so I really struggle with the concept of the so-called digital age. I can’t imagine not being able to visit a second hand bookshop and a actually holding real books in my hands or sitting in my living room surrounded by a lifetimes music collection with each album having the ability to remind me of times past and of course the photographs that help recall 60 years plus worth of memories - without these things I’m just sitting in an empty box, with these things I’m sitting in my home. Ha Ha, what an old fart I’ve become..........

Love that you went to film an actual professional printer rather than answer on your own

Another thoughtful and provocative piece. One thought though: each print is an opportunity to revisit the original vision and reinterpret it. Think of the old hand printing process: one can never dodge and burn etc in exactly the same way. Each print can and should be subtly (and, perhaps, not so subtly) different from the one that went before

I have searched youtube what precaution you should take before printing photo or should you be afraid to print your photos?....well, this is what i was looking for, and it is a kind of relief when you said that printing of your photos is a very forgiving part as compare to viewing it on your monitor screen and being critical about it.....love the prints you have got (y)

Excellent Sean. I had set myself a challenge to produce a photobook of one of my long term projects (photos of a particular local landscape in different view points). But after seeing those pictures on your wall - I think i need to take on your challenge and go for my favourite image and print it big :-) . Thanks for yet another great video.

Amazing work. I agree with all what you say, like you said I have been a digital person and lived in small apartments, but when I first printed some of my images and framed them (and I have them since) they took a different vibe, although I dont feel standing proud with them I actually learned more looking at them printed.

There is something in what you are saying. My mentor has selected 9 photographs that she would like me to print and then we will select one to frame. It's a great exercise in taking pride and ownership of your work. The chap at the print lab also gave some great advice regarding 8 bit and 16 bit. Thank you.

Printing intimidates me, but I'm curious at the same time. I am going to do it, when I get up the nerve. I enjoy your work Sean, thanks for sharing.

Another great video. Cheers Sean :)

Those prints are beautiful!!! 🧡🧡🧡

Your videos make me want to edit old images and take more photographs. Can't ask for much more than that!

Sean - what a great and informative video - thank you so much :) so very helpful

Who are the folks giving SeanTucker the thumbs down on his videos? I mean, perhaps you shouldn't watch them. I think the videos are great and different from the usual trope of reviews and gear lust. Thanks Sean! I appreciate your insights and what you do.

Superb video. Many thanks for posting.

Thank you for this video. Very inspiring!

There is something about producing an artifact that goes beyond just taking a great digital image. It solidifies the effort into a final form. Also, it may not be about how great the shot is but how great the person in the shot is and what the image means to us.

Thank you so much for this video, this is so helpful!

Awesome...just stumbled across this video and this is a fantastic, informative and enjoyable video. Your pictures are beautiful also.

Really impressive shots and editing..

Nice work Sean. i appreciatr the motivation.

Nice work.... reminds me of my shoot in Ethiopia...life changing

I cannot wait to get some of mine printed!

Spot on and it is definitely art that you produce

The first one.... Wow. love your videos

Great video. My girlfriend had a few of my photographs printed for my birthday and it really made me look differently at them. Seeing them printed was great. :)

Stunning photos… great work…

after having some of my shots printed and hung on the wall, there's something about it you just can't get from looking at them on a screen. in fact shots I wasn't massively keen on have really grown on me as I look them everyday. Also I think the only way to print work is to go BIG! anything smaller than A3 just doesn't do justice to the work I feel. great video, keep them coming :)

Awesome Sean!

That was really helpful! Thank you!

As a photographer who is just now getting into the professional world, these videos are HUGELY helpful. You explain the parts that you can't get from a book, you give us the details that you can only get from experience: those unwritten rules. Thank you very much for taking the time to share this information with us.

Wonderful video and fantastic images... nice work

I started my photography journey a year ago ans I wanted to keep track of my progress so I had a booklet printed of my favourite shot of the year. It's amazing how the pictures comes to life

Waited a lot for this

Very informative, interesting and of your usual high quality. I have no difficulty at all calling your photography "art".

Those prints are awesome!

I just had two of my images professionally printed and put them up on the wall in our living room. I've been shooting for 5+ years, and this is the first time I've hung something of my own in our home. And I can't believe I didn't do it sooner.

Great video and great images!

So, you really hit home with the commitment issue. We have a lot in common based on the thoughts you've expressed across your channel. Really appreciating the thoughtful content. Recently I printed 3 of my own photos and they came out much darker in the tangible world than on my computer screen. That was a surprise to me. So printing is important to know how your work translates into a tactile medium. It's very satisfying. In regards to committing to a photo I thought of this... why not swap your photos out quarterly and give them to your friends, offer old ones up for coffee venues or art exhibits? or just add them to a clip book which will grow over time. Cheers Sean!