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Have you thought about printing your own images really large, but just don't feel confident or have knowledge in all the processes to do so? Let me consult for you!

It's simple...send me a photo of yours and ask what I can do. I'll take your best version of the photo you have (JPG, TIFF, or any Raw format), taken on a cell phone or a really good camera, and then I will pixel-peep it and send you a reply about how much I believe I can enlarge it (usually 300% or more) at magazine quality standards (300DPI), not only without a loss in quality, but with an increase in quality, usually 200% or more! If you like what you hear, then you authorize me to continue in good faith and invest my studio time on the image.

Each image, from start to finish requires roughly 3 hours of my studio time. It is a long and detailed process I conduct towards ensuring the final quality, which also include color-temperature corrections, sharpness and clarity/dehazing corrections, and other basic global edits, and if needed I can do specific localized edits to fix issues that only occur in those places of the image. Each image is then color-matched and calibrated through soft-proofing to the printer profile and color workspaces being used by the lab. And then to always ensure that what I am looking at on my screen is exactly how it is going to be printed and look in person, I employ color-calibrated computer displays, coupled with an ambient light sensor in my studio, which measures the light and glare in my workspace every 30 seconds an automatically keeps my display monitors correct.

I can also critique the image for various compositional aspects that align with various principals of the psychology of photography, and recommend various ways to best present the image to provoke the strongest emotional feeling.


Once I have made the improvements using my proprietary methods and processes, I will schedule and conduct a simple 5-10 minute Zoom call with you. In this call, I will demonstrate the before image vs the after image, as well as mockups using various mediums and styles to use for production of your piece. As we do so, you will see in real time how your design choices effect the overall price of your job.

From this point on, with payment, I manage the rest of the production of your improved and enlarged file: Printing, finishing, framing or mounting, and then drop ship directly to your door -- as well as deal with any unexpected production or shipping issues, which seldom but sometimes can occur.

Pricing:
My consulting fee for performing and managing this entire process is $300 per image. The rest of the cost will be in your decisions of how to print and finish it, as well as how to mount and/or frame it, the costs of which I will transparently pass on at my wholesale cost to do so. A strong savings vs printing your own and then taking to a custom framer.

Here are some samples of previous work performed with other people's images: