You NEED to be printing your photos!! Here's why.. 

Home printing? Or Lab printing? Why?!

I am a high school teacher in a dropout prevention program. My students and I are in the process of remodeling our classroom, but we don't have many decorations. We would be so stoked to hang this in the classroom to help inspire us all. If anyone reads this please like it so Pete actually sees it. Thanks everyone, and thanks Pete for the awesome content!

Hey Peter, you should make a video about preparing a photo for printing! adding borders, export settings, getting colors right, etc. Would be cool!

This just made me want to print and frame my boyfriend’s work from his past career as a photographer and gift it to him, just to show him that his hard work still holds value

Bogos binted?

My guitarist buddy printed several of pics I took of him playing over the years. He got these giant canvas prints and hung in his basement and didn't tell me. The next time I was there, I was blown away... with my own photography...LOL I could not believe how great my stuff came out. YES, print stuff!

I remember watching this video 2 years ago when I first started taking photos on my iPhone thinking “that printer is way too expensive!” Fast forward to today, and that printer is sitting on my table and I’m printing every photo I can. Thank you Peter for inspiring me to peruse photography as a career!

Hiya Pete! I am 16 and my 13 year old brother and I have been watching your videos and we have been inspired to go out and shoot more pictures in different ways! We take every Sunday afternoon and run around our little home town in Ohio for 2-౩ hours and do competitive photography challenges ( judged by folks in our community). We don't have any fancy gear (just smartphone cameras 😁), but we have been inspired by your awesome content to really think of things and try to capture them in different ways. Boy would we be honored to fill an empty spot on the wall of our room with art from our most respected photography inspiration to remind us to shoot more intentionally. Shoot something to be proud of.

Bogos binted? 👽

I would hang the print above my desk here at university to motivate me and remind me that the whole world is out there waiting for me to explore and to do that with my trusty DSLR and take amazing travel photos is my biggest dream, I don't wanna loose sight of that. thank you for the high energy content that keeps me motivated when work load gets heavy at uni :)

Hey Peter!I'm 15 yr from Bulgaria.I started about a year ago doing photography and mostly filmmaking. You've been a huge inspiration for me and tought me so many things that really helped me progress a lot! It'll be great to have that memory from you on my wall,watching it and inspiring me every day! I never win these kind of things tho :/

Who's watching without socks?

I've printed several photos of my own photos I took while on holiday. Blown them up and had them framed. Looking at them hanging on the walls instantly take me back to that moment in time. What I felt like that year. The story behind the photo. The experiences I had during that trip. Much like a favourite song transports you back. It's an awesome feeling!

I need it so I can replace the Black and White New York picture with Yellow Cabs I bought from Ikea...

Hey Peter, I'm an hobby photographer and I absolutely like the idea of printing your own photos instead of just buying a print from Ikea! It brings unique art into your home that nobody else has. I recently just moved out of my parents' home into my new home. But right now there isn't any art yet or anything else, and that's why I would love to win your print! I would hang it in my hall, so that when I enter my home, I always get inspired and reminded why I love photography! Your tips are the best, and I hope becoming just like you in 10 years! ❤️

Peter I have to say this video actually changed my life. I watch loads of YT and love it... countless hours of videos roll in and out of my life, but your video printed me to do what I’d wanted to do for a long time. So I went out and bought a PRO-1000 to start bringing my work to life. I’ll keep you posted hope it all goes. Thanks again. Much love. Much respect. 🤙

Seriously photography goals! Just starting out with a little Sony a6000. Finally after three months I finally have a couple shots I'm proud of... After 2000 pictures. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Keep making videos, keep mentoring! You've already helped me so much think outside the box in how I take pictures and edit them.

the impression of the people looking at prints at IKEA is my favourite part of this video

This is why I love shooting on film. It's an entire hands on process that is so satisfying and educational each time you do it. You're consistently and repeatedly falling in love with the medium and gaining more knowledge and appreciation with every shot, development, and print.

Home printing is the best because you can learn how the printer adds inks to the paper and why your image looks a bit different than on the screen. What's the difference between additive or subtractive inks? What matters on the screen won't matter on the print. Why Black and White prints need a special printer with gray inks? And most of all, you get your print right away. Instant gratification! Oh and don't forget you can run down to the local art framer and have it mounted. Some shops will let you do your own framing. You're friends will never believe that you created the whole thing yourself. I too miss the days of working in the darkroom. Many of the commands you see in photoshop come from techniques that were done in the lab. You had to some basic math and use timers. If you messed up, you had to start all over again. Mistakes cost you money. But if you got it right, the results were amazing. Your fellow photographers would always ask, how in the heck did you make that? One day in photography class I was able to fool my instructor. I created a photo of racecars going around a track just like you see in NASCAR. I told him it was all made with miniatures. Slot cars to be precise. The instructor didn't believe me so I went home and photographed the slot cars, track, toy people, etc. Well I got an A+ out of that class. My days learning high school photography, helped me become an expert long before the digital camera came to be. Lessons that will be lost forever in the new digital world.

Hey Peter! all my life I have always been interested in photography but never thought I could ever make it work. At around the same time I was going to college for a semester and taking gen-eds, I started watching your videos. You inspired me to pursue a passion that I found through YOUR videos. I now am doing photography full time. I have my first wedding lined up in May and couldn't be more happy. Thank you, Peter, for setting the tone for me as a photographer/ business owner. I most likely wouldn't be here without your content! There is a huge open wall above my bed in my room that I have been saving for something special. It would mean so much to have the opportunity to hang it there.

Hey Peter, greetings from Germany! I am a 17 years old student, and an ambitious pianist. I would love to hang up your photo right above my piano because when I am playing the piano I am starring at a white wall, which is kind of depressing ;). Deal: it would be cool, if you sent me a sheet of a favorite piano- piece... I could learn and record it, just so that you could use it for any B-rolls ;)

I love snowy sceneries. That would be a good enough reason, but at the moment the only art I have on the walls of my room is a terrible photo (it looked much nicer back then) I took and had printed like 5 years ago when I was much worse in photography. I think seeing a signed Peter McKinnon print on my wall would remind me that dreams do come true with hard work. It would go above my TV so that whenever I start watching TV I would think: "Should I watch TV or do something to achieve my goals".

Hello Peter. I am a film student so I take a lot of appreciation in visuals. Recently I started doing the photography for the restaurant I work at and it is something I take a lot of pride in. Your videos are very motivating for me in the work that I do and I take every one of your videos as a lesson for my own career. I really appreciate the help you are willing to give others through your own knowledge. I would love to receive a print because I admire the shots you take and your dedication to capturing them. If I were to receive your print, I wouldn't hang it in my own home, I have something more special in mind. The girl I have been seeing the past few months is preparing to move into an apartment soon and I thought what would be a better house warming gift than decorating her place with one of your prints? It would be very meaningful because she is a very sweet person and shows a lot of appreciation for my work and gives me motivation in continuing it and putting myself out there. It would be a very special surprise to give her something from someone I admire and whom motivates the work that I do. Thank you, Blake.

I love printing my pictures and having a look at them physically, it's also a great gift

Man I always felt like I was missing something with photography... this is totally what it is, the lack of a tangible physical piece! Also not to mention for those of us trying to get more work and exposure, this is a great way to get your work out there and is not done very often anymore!! Great video (Even if I'm 2 years late!)

I can't imagine why there are people who "dislike" this video. Thanks Peter for reminding us photogs to print our work once in a while!

“Oh look another picture of New York that’s black and white and *GASP* THE CABS ARE YELLOW...” Me: Awkwardly looks at a print on my wall that fits that exact description 😭😭😭

I recently began watching your your amazing videos and they have inspired me so much!! I was struggling to find a hobbie that i would enjoy doing, but when I watched your vids, I instantly knew what I was looking for. you are now a HUGE inspiration to me, and I would love to have one of your prints hangging on my bedroom wall!!

thank you thank you thank you Peter, you're awesome, because of you I started taking good pictures, and I really would have something from you... ❤❤❤

Having a bad day and wanted some vintage PM. Been in kind of a rut with my photography. Thanks Peter.

I'd love this picture to remind myself to be more authentic! I have a job that I'm not too passionate about and I'm working on following my dreams. So I gotta conquer that mountain. Love your work Peter!

Needing decor on my wall was a huge factor in getting deeper into photography I want only my pics on my wall now

You nailed it on so many points here....there is a certain artistic satisfaction that comes from seeing your work printed and showcased as tangible art. It's a game changer. Great video!

You inspired me to pick up a old point and shoot camera just to take it out of auto mode. Than I seen your video about B&H. That made me drive from Wisconsin to B&H and buy a Cannon 77d. Love it. Now your inspiring me to print my photos. Thanks P.M. you've gotten me interested in something and it's my new hobby. Love it.

YES so consistent with this awesome stuff! You teach me so much Peter :)

Hey Peter! I would love that print because otherwise I'll go buy a print from IKEA... Okay, not really. In all honesty, I wasn't going to leave a comment, but then I saw the print. My fiance and I are highly considering a move to the mountains where we can have a cozy house somewhere that actually snows and where we can snowboard. I'm currently working hard, in and out of college, to make that dream a reality, and hanging that print above my workstation will motivate and remind me every day why I'm doing this.

Hey Peter! If you send me that print, I'll put it right over my bed ON THE CEILING! That's right, not a conventional place for a picture, but most definitely the place I want it. Every morning, I'll wake up and and look at a reminder that I need to create more, work harder, and make better content!

My Epson 1400 printer is almost 9 yrs old now. I keep it healthy by printing a 5x7, trying to get it right, about once a week. Having the prints around gives me ideas and I learn things. Eventually I've hit upon sneaking them into library books when I return them. By that means they go out into the world somewhere, or into a circular file. The prints look great off the screen, where they belong. Great work Peter.

This year i'm moving in town, Montréal to be exact, with my two best friends. We are all into photography and we're gonna need to fill our new appartment walls. Im going to concordia University to study photography (Where I will actually have some color and black and white film course, also digital print!) and I really wanna start pushing myself and aim toward that professional career I dream of, and know I can achieve IF I put in the hard work. Seeing your print everyday on my wall would be a good reminder and motivation to keep grinding!

Dear Peter, Send the photo to me and here is why. I want to post it on my roof because people usually post stuff on their walls and look at it eye level. I want to wake up and when i look at the roof...BAM!!! A awesome display of what i will use my day to work towards...better photography. The sky is the limit!! (or space if you want to be technical) I cant wait to see that eagle you promised the winner👌👌

Hi, OK, I'm convinced - printing photos is important. Do you have a tutorial about printing?

This message is SOOOO powerful and bedrock-fundamental (for me) it pops every time I open my browser (& still does in 2020). Doubt you'll ever read this Pete but on the off-chance - HUGE HUGEST THANKS man for this vid. I can totally NOT overstate it's importance and power. 12/10 man! Free mentoring = EPIC! Thank YOU !!!!

I would hang it in my living room to constantly be remembered to improve my own photography skill and see what passion one day can lead to.

I’m a photographer myself and I tend to print my images and hang and give away as well thanks for the video

I want this... I need this print. Peter, you're the one that brought me back into photography after I was just a casual hobby shooter for the past 5 years. That goes for filmmaking as well. I've decided to make this a career path that I want to pursue and it's thanks to you and the videos you make. This print will be in my room if I ever get it because it will just motivate and inspire me to become just as great of a creator like you.

Thank you for inspiring me to print my photos. I recently got into photography and came across your channel a few weeks ago. I’ve been able to learn a lot from watching your videos. This one though will hold a special place in my heart. A couple of days ago my son was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery to repair a massive brain bleed. The doctors were not optimistic in their prognosis. They said he probably was not going to make it through surgery but he’s a tough cookie and best the odds. He’s a critical but stable condition and showing signs of improvement. Which brings me to the point on why this video holds so much meaning. The weekend before his emergency , I took him down to Everglades National Park. I took my camera a shot a bunch of landscape photos. But my favorite photo of that day is one of him standing and looking up at a map of the park. Although his back was facing me , I decided to take the picture because he looked so amazed at the size of the natural wonder. I recently converted a room into an office space for my work. Was deciding on what to put in it. Printing and putting my own photos crossed my mind but I thought that would be tacky. But in Lou of recent events , i will definitely be printing that photo of my son to put up in the wall in my office. Thank you! 🙏🏼

You don’t know how much I wish I’ve seen this video when you posted it for the chance to get that print. Love your work man, you have taught me a ton and thanks to your videos I’m back into photography after I felt that I wasn’t cut out to do it. Keep up the good work!

Hey Peter! I'm a very nooby youtuber but want to pursue a career in photography or videography. I would love to have that print because I will most likely hang it in my room in hopes that one day I can be able to travel and vlog my adventures in places other than Florida. Thanks for all the inspiration! YOU'RE AWESOME!

God, the personality of this guy is hilarious

Just started printing my own work for my first ever exhibition (yay). It’s completely reenergized my love of photography

Great video, Peter. I absolutely loved the dark room and quite miss it. There’s something about seeing that photo come to life in the developer that creates that connection between the photographer and their work. I also loved your comment on buying and hanging prints of others when we should be hanging our own, which is exactly what I’ve been doing for years. There’s nothing wrong with an artist appreciating their own work. Cheers!

That darkroom is now adobe lightroom LOL

Home printing, but how to achieve consistency without a color calibration tool?

Pete, I am a new photographer and have been shooting just over a year. You have inspired me from the first time I watched your videos. You are the first channel I followed regarding photography, and I rarely miss a new video. I would love to have your print to hang in my living room to show you off to whomever comes over and to inspire me to continue on this journey. Thank you for your teaching, entertainment and encouragement.

This is so true. I shoot on a 35mm nikon FM2. Love that shit. Getting in the dark room where everything smells like piss and vinegar! haha. You get so much more from your photos. the wrinkled paper and everything. I feel like when you shoot on film and print in the dark room it elevates your photography from a simple medium of documenting and capturing image to a form of art in itself! great vid.

What kind of printer are you using. And thanks for the great content.

Hello Peter, I would really appreciate the Print because I have been doing photography for about 2 years now and I am yet to have printed any of my work. This has lead to a blank canvas on my wall. I think it would be really awesome to have some work on my wall of someone that I really aspire to be like; as this would be really inspirational for my future work. Thanks for reading, James

Couldn't agree with you more! Not only do I print my own work for my home, but I've started laminating them myself. That's where it crosses over from being a photograph to a work of art. Keep up the good work!

New to your channel and I enjoy you very much. I am looking to get back into photography. I love printing, so if it were up to me I'd say bring back acetate film and darkrooms. I think a person has a different and deeper understanding about the art of photography and light when you do your own printing, especially darkroom work, and especially in black & white. I love digital also, and both have there drawbacks and benefits, however, printing your work takes you to another place, whether it's from a computer printer, or in a darkroom. (More so the the latter). Like expanding your consciousness. A true photographer has to understand their own work and in order to do that you have to print it. I'm not saying everything, but you gotta do some printing.

Hey Peter, I want to buy a printer and this vid showed up on RU-vid. So I watched it a second time. I think the 1e time was 3 years ago :p What printer(s) would you recommend 2020-2021? Don't know if you still read comments of old vids.

Hey guys I just started to think about photography seriously for past few months and I think in this there could be something incredible in future. Im 18 years old and I don´t have that much money for an expensive camera. I was thinking about buying this summer Canon EOS 600D (Rebel t3i) or Canon 1300D. I´ve watched a lot of youtube videos and I´ve seen that these are great cameras for beginners that want to progress in future. I would be very happy if anyone has any advice about this. (sorry if my english is bad) btw Peter your videos might change my life thanks man keep them up.

Peter you nailed it. All photographers should see their photos on paper. There is nothing like it and today’s printers are awesome. I use a Epson 3880.

You are silly! I enjoy watching your videos. Good energy!

Lol that Ikea reference 😂

Recommend us the damn printers!

Peter is so right about prints! I’m gifting my Uncle this beautiful black and white silhouette of his youngest son for this Father’s Day. It’s so satisfying to see your work in physical form, even better seeing the reaction of the receiver of the print.

Dear Mr. McKinnon. I would love nothing more than to own your print. I would like to own a McKinnon print to hang behind my artisan coffee maker, to inspire me each morning to take the best shots possible. Julian

Hey Pete... totally new to this field and have been subscribed and following you since beginning my research. You are extremely knowledgeable as well as motivating in the subject. I love your perspective and approach to topics and your willingness to relate to your beginnings. I enjoy your artistic eye and sense of style with your imagery! I wish I had been subscribed and following sooner as I would've loved the opportunity to have a chance to hang a piece of your work in my home. My fiance and I are beginning our cinema-graphic journey and we'll be following you along the way the entire time!! Thank you again for your time and effort in producing these videos.. again they are very informative and extremely useful! Keep up the amazing work and god bless!

Here's some love from India. I don't know if you are willing to ship to India even if you like this comment. But then, a boy's got to try. That print looks AMAZING and I would love to have it. Since my flatmate left recently and when he left he took all the photos that were hanging in the apartment, I don't have to think twice for the space to hang this one. It will get the most prime location at my home. I am a Computer Scientist who is a hobby photographer who also runs a non-profit which teaches photography and conducts different photography events (mostly photowalks). Recently I have found myself more interested in videos, and of course your channel played a big role in the same. :) I love photography and recently I shifted to Instagram since FB pages seemed like going nowhere without sponsored content. I post one photo everyday on my Instagram account, and some of your videos motivated me to keep going. I am not mentioning my account here as I don't want to come out as that annoying person who hunts for likes. :D Keep up the good work, Peter. Love this channel.

I just picked up a Pixma Pro-10, and have been loving printing my own photos. There is something magical about real prints.

I love that people are just making "Bogos binted?" memes in the comments

Boost bintied?

Wait a minute! Your light didn't go off in your refrigerator when you closed the doors. Answer to the age old question?

I had a darkroom back in the 1970s. I set it up in a hallway in the apartment that I rented. As you say, it was as much fun developing and printing photos as it was taking them. I had a Beseler enlarger, a real beast that was described as the Brooklyn Bridge of enlargers. I just searched for a picture of it and the description said "vintage enlarger." For the first time, I realize that I am really old. My wife loves coffee. A few weeks ago I took a photo of her empty coffee cup with a milk pitcher. Obviously words don't describe it, I would need 993 more words to do it justice. We loved the photo. Unbeknownst to her, I had it printed and made a nice wooden frame. I hung it over her Brivelle coffee machine on Valentines Day. Boy did that get me some points. Thanks for another good video!

The ink for that ginormous printer has got to be UBER expensive. Thanks for the advice tho Pete Pete!

Why I want it: Cause PETER FREAKING MCKINNON SHOT AND PRINTED IT AND SIGNED IT AND TOUCHED IT. I will smell it once I get it. Where would I hang it: Mondays & Tuesday are in the kitchen, Sunday & Thursday are the bedroom, Wednesday is the garage so when I come home from a long day I drive in and BAM! It greets me like you do in every video! and Saturday is RESERVED the hallway. Friday is for you to pick Peter. Anywhere. Above the fridge? Sure. In the bathroom? Why not. Your pick, not mine. Or I would give it to my grandma to hang in her house because she loves pictures of mountains & She is an amputee and can't travel anymore. Thank Peter! (PS, My last name is pronounced knee-ball-uh) - - see what I did there. PEACE

I would love it for inspiration, and I would put it above my desk, since the wall is bare there.

Excellent video!! I agree! I print a lot for clients but almost never for myself. I would hang that beautiful print on the wall at the foot of my bed. Every morning I wake up I would see it and it would remind me of the peace and accomplishment I feel when I reach the top. Never focus on the valley, focus on the peak!! Thanks for an awesome channel man!

When you're so fast to click that notification button the HD video isn't even available yet

The only youtuber left in the Canon empire.

You are right ! Now get to work and make a detailed tutorial about how you edit for print, including color profiles. Detailed and foolproof. Thank you ;)

Well, I would like to have it because I'm actually beginning in photography and to be honest looking at your work is just amazing. I would hang it over my head, over my bed just to look at it every day and get even more motivated every day.

I have a massive white wall in my room! that's where the pic will live. Love that snowy mountain so much 😍

Bogos binted

I would put it in my room to take inspiration from it each day.

I love printing my photos. It’s an art that’s going away. I always look back on photos in albums or frames hang in the wall of my house! It’s like another level of photography!

I would hang it in my room (aka my office) for inspiration... a goal even.

Peter, do you realize that you've gained 250,000 subscribers in 2 months? You'll be getting that gold RU-vid play button in the mail by the end of the summer callin it now. Do a video when you get the gold play button!

Hey! Just wondering if you got your bogos binted?

Past couple years, I have really gotten into photography. Invested into a rebel T5, invested in many lenses, then upgrades to a T5i, watched many videos on RU-vid to learn, took pretty stunning images that I myself love and my followers enjoyed, but then I slowly went out less and less but wanted to get back into it more and more. Your channel is really motivating me to get back out there, and even start printing the work I like. It was a hobby that really brought an artistic side out in me that I never knew I had and I need to really rekindle that and you're helping me do so

7:49 we finally know it now, the light in the fridge does not turn out when closing it

bogos binted

I did this when I got my film camera and printed all my rolls of film and hung my favorites in my room and gave some to friends, I’ve recently got a mirrorless camera and found myself missing the printing process and the excitement of giving my photos to my friends and family. This video is amazing!

Hang it on my back so anyone can see how awesome your photos and channel are!

What a coincidence! I recently made a video about printing your photos too! It's called "The Art of Printing Pics", and your feedback would be welcomed! I made this video because I really believe that printing a picture is a part of the process of photography. Nowadays we take way more pictures than before because we don't have a limitation, which makes you totally forget them. Printing pictures is kind of giving a new birth to it. Anyway, love your video Pete!

Definitely need to print photos! Any small RU-vidrs/Vloggers/Filmmakers want to support each other?

I have always loved getting my photos printed for all the reasons you said. I especially enjoy giving them as gifts to my family and seeing them in their home.

I want it to remind me to actualy go outside and shoot as often as possible. I would frame it and hang it above my desk.

Damn you look more amazing than in future you really have great style taste your hair your beard don't know why RU-vid is recommending me your old video when I haven't missed even your one new video I guess it's suggesting me to try this look too