In addition to the technical subject matter of recognizing good and bad prints, preparing one’s own files for printing, etc., we also spent quite a bit of time critiquing participant images. Each of the 20 participants brought four prints for presentation and discussion. This part of the workshop really made me miss being a member of the photography club so I’ll be looking at joing up with the Ottawa Camera Club again, or trying out the RA Photo Club.

On the last day, we all made prints on Michael’s Epson 11880 64-inch printer. The machine was amazing and baited everyone to try and see how big they could go with a given file before image quality degraded. While one of images from NYC didn’t survive upsizing to 20×24, this image of the Heron at the family cottage printed beautifully at 16×10.

Since the workshop, I’ve taken a much harder look at my library of images with what feel like new, better-educated eyes. This resulted in a substantial cull and the adoption of the workflow tips presented at the workshop.

Also, I’ve made my first print sale to a colleague at work. I’ll be delivering it (the NYC image above in a more reasonable size), double-matted and framed, tomorrow. I’m also contributing the Heron image as a raffle item for a fund-raiser at work.

On the work front, there is a lot of activity and work across the organization and while it doesn’t affect me or my staff directly or as intensely as our subject matter experts, it gives us more balls to juggle in our discussions with our external clients. Sorry, can’t say more.

Closing thoughts… I wish Canon would announce the 5D’s successor soon — I’m getting impatient.