Exercise 5.2: Print quotes.

Exercise 5.2: Print quotes.

The exercise was to find three print firms and obtain quotes for both C-type and giclee prints.  A trawl of the net brought up many print firms but only a few met the requirements.  The three sets of quotes are below.

I selected a RAW file of an image taken inside the Western Redoubt in Dover and changed it to a jpg/RGB file at a dpi of 240.

Giclee

C type.

The only true photograph is the one taken from the camera without further manipulation.  This limits us to positive images such as slide film , the Daguerreotype or a RAW file.  Not very useful.  Any additional work must alter that original image and make it an interpretation of what was seen through the lens.  As long as one is true to that original view then the resultant picture must be seen as a photograph, no matter what the medium of reproduction is.  The C type can be manipulated to the same extent as the inkjet so each is capable of untruthful reproduction.  The further from that first view the manipulation takes the image then the further it is removed from photograph and changes it to art-work.