That’s right, it’s prints! I spent all weekend cloistered in the apartment working on prints for next Saturday’s Brooklyn Indie Market spring re-opening. It’s been a lot of work so far, and I’m still going to try to print up at least 15 more unframed prints before the end of the week.

So, did I learn anything?

Well, printing this much in such a short time really tested my workflow, and I’m happy to report back that it held up pretty well. This is the first time that I’m printing many of these images, and I’ve had to do relatively few test prints to get exactly where I want to be. This is a testament to the amount of work I did this winter really nailing down my calibration, workflow, and printer profiling. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that they look really, really good.

The downside is that I tried to print a few color images (this one and this one, specifically) and was not really happy with the results. I think I have tweaked my workflow in favor of B&W at the expense of accurate color reproduction, which isn’t a bad trade-off for now. Someday I would like to dedicate some serious time to a color workflow, but I’m doing much more work in B&W at the moment.

So things will be quiet until after this weekend, as I finish up this print run and get ready for the sale. I may have one short tutorial coming up this week (not the printing tutorial, just a simple Photoshop video). In the meantime, please stop by and visit me at the Indie Market (at the corner of Smith and Union in Carroll Gardens) if you happen to be in the neighborhood on Saturday.