I thought it would be helpful to write a little bit about my prints. Whether I am being commissioned for a portrait, landscape, or conceptual art, it makes me glad to provide my clients with the best product possible. I mostly use photographic print processes (rather inkjet prints) on archival quality papers. For prints I do not make in house by hand, I only use the best photo labs in the country. It also makes me glad to provide a diverse array of printing processes to give your print its own personality. Below are some of the processes I currently offer.
COLOR
For color prints, I work closely a fine-art printing service in New York City that provides C-type printing. C-type (or Lambda) prints are made photographically by exposing light-sensitive papers to lasers which are then developed in a lab using traditional wet processes. Unlike inkjet prints, C-type prints retain full color value. One square inch of a C-type print holds over 60 million colors rather than the 256 colors found in a square inch of an inkjet print. This accuracy produces subtlety for the image that is unattainable by conventional printing processes. I also have my color images printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Deep Matte paper to assure the longevity of the print.
BLACK & WHITE
For B&W images that are captured digitally and for prints from film that are too large for me to produce in-house, I work with a small print shop in Massachusetts that provides large format gelatin silver printmaking. What the C-type print is for color, gelatin silver is for black and white. One gets a seamless gradient of contrast rather than getting the 256 levels of contrast (steps between total black and total white) found in an inkjet print. For both C-type and gelatin silver printing vs inkjet printing, I like to use the analogy of listening to a record on a hi-fi system vs listening to an mp3 on a car radio: both are good, but the former is more subtly detailed and more accurate to how the artist wants you to experience his/her work. My gelatin silver prints are made with fiber paper or resin-coated paper, depending on my clients' needs.
ALTERNATIVE PROCESS
For clients who want something truly unique, I can be commissioned to make prints using alternative processes. Alternative processes are historical printing processes from the 19th century. These processes are very hands on and no two results will be identical. Some of the alternative processes I can provide are cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, and platinum-palladium. Many alternative processes can be made on a variety of media including cloth, metal, glass, and wood.
If you have any questions about my printing processes, want to commission a print to hang in your home or business, or are interested in booking me for a session, email me at craigwynn90@gmail.com.