Collecting
Buying a large print involves a handful of decisions most people only make once — and the answers are hard to find without a salesperson attached to them. These are the ones I get asked most, written out properly.
Four finishes, four genuinely different objects. What each one does to an image, which rooms they survive, and how to pick without seeing them in person.
Almost everyone goes smaller than they should. The arithmetic behind picking a size, and where panoramic formats actually belong.
Not margins — inputs. What a 1200 ppi 16-bit print actually costs to make, and why a 48×72 costs more than four 24×36s.
The most common way to spend real money on a print and then undo it. Angle, distance, color temperature, and what actually damages a print.
The term is used loosely enough to be almost meaningless. What it means here, and how to tell a real edition from a marketing one.
Where the line sits between processing a photograph and fabricating one, and why I don't think a landscape photograph was ever a document.
