WCI scans for John Muir Book

When Houghton Mifflin Harcourt wanted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Muir’s seminal work My First Summer in the Sierra with an illustrated edition, they turned to Scot Miller, with whom they’d also created illustrated editions of Thoreau’s Walden and Cape Cod.  When Miller wanted to turn his gorgeous 6x7 chromes into digital files he turned to West Coast Imaging, who scanned over 70 pieces of film for the book.

Miller says “I experimented with doing my own scanning several years ago but quickly came to the conclusion that it took a lot of time, my results were inconsistent and it frustrated the heck out of me! For me, WCI is the only way to go and they have been doing my scans exclusively for over ten years now.”

“My experience has been that Jeff Grandy will capture every ounce of detail in a given image, (which) gives me the greatest flexibility as an artist when it comes to preparing images for printing. I have made display prints as large as six feet by seven feet from my 6x7cm transparencies, with great result. Without scans of the absolute best quality, this would not be possible.”

West Coast Imaging’s owner Rich Seiling found the project equally rewarding. “Book projects give us a chance to help artists take the same fine art quality they see in their prints onto the printed page. When you think of the number of people who will see a book we’ve worked on compared to the number of people who will see a fine art print, it’s astounding to consider, and very rewarding to know they are seeing the artist’s work reproduced as beautifully as possible.”

Learn more about the book at myfirstsummerinthesierra.com

Scot Miller’s website: suntomoon.com

Case Study for Miller’s Cape Cod Book: westcoastimaging.com/wci/page/casestudies/scotmiller/smiller.html

Win a free color-accurate monitor?

by Rich Seiling

Sound too good to be true? Well, maybe…

I’m not running a contest, but I can tell you how to see if you’ve won. If you have an Apple Cinema Display or an Apple iMac, you probably already have a color-accurate monitor.

Apple has a long history of offering top-grade monitors. In particular, their Cinema Displays and some of the large iMacs (24” and up) have been color accurate in the past. (We use a 23-inch cinema display at West Coast Imaging, and it’s a very accurate monitor.)

The problem is that Apple does not market these monitors as being color-accurate, like NEC/LaCie/Eizo does, by providing specs. Apple can change the displays at any time, so you don’t have absolute certainty of getting a color-accurate monitor. That makes a purchase of an Apple display as a color-accurate monitor a bit of a gamble, but at a practical level, you can usually win.

It works out even better if you already own or plan to buy an iMac, because the monitor is just part of the overall computer purchase price.

Even knowing this, I’m always hesitant to recommend buying an iMac for color accurate work because I don’t have the chance to test every model as they are released.

So, when one of the WCI staff members purchased a new 27” 3.2Ghz i3 iMac for personal use, I had him bring it in so we could compare it against our other color-accurate monitors.

We calibrated to a variety of white points from 5000k to 6500k and compared it to our  NEC-2690WUXi2 and a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display (both calibrated to 6500K.) We settled on a white point of 6200K for the iMac, as this gave the closest match to our other displays.

So how good was it? Pretty good. The higher end displays were more accurate, but the iMac was way better than some well regarded but not “color-accurate” monitors I’ve recently tested like the DELL U2410 or the NEC 231WMI-BK.

Where it fell short was in some of the reds, and subtle magentas.

So, was it good enough?

It depends on your use. If you already have an iMac or Cinema Display, and don’t have a color-accurate monitor, I’d recommend getting a monitor profiling kit like the i1 Display 2 and using it.

Based on my experience, most photographers are going to be more than happy with its level of accuracy.  And if you already have it, it’s a free equipment upgrade. Considering most people aren’t using a true color-accurate monitor, it’s a huge upgrade for the vast majority of photographers.

Now you might ask, Rich, would you use it?

Fair enough.

Well, I’ve been looking at color-accurate monitors for about 17 years, and I sweat color changes of one point in Photoshop’s color balance tool. In fact, I know I’ve got the right color balance when I go back and forth by one point and wish I could split the difference. (Actually there is a way, but at that point I’m within the repeatability of the output system so it doesn’t need half point accuracy.) I would see the difference between the iMac and my color-accurate monitor.

Having the extra color accuracy of a more accurate monitor helps me achieve greater accuracy, just like Iron Chef Morimoto’s $5,000 knives do for his cooking.  I’m still going to buy the higher-end displays.

Long story short, if your iMac or cinema display is your most accurate display, profile it and use it.

If you don’t have an iMac or cinema display, and need to buy a color-accurate monitor, look at the ~$340 NEC P221W or the ~$640 NEC PA231W that will give you more accuracy than the iMac I tested. Pros who make a living with their photos will find a highly accurate monitor is less than the cost of travel to most shoots.  And if you are a very serious amateur, it might be the upgrade that takes your printing to the next level.

So did you win a color-accurate monitor? Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? You tell me.

Rich Seiling is a photographer and the owner of West Coast Imaging. You can see his photographs at richardseiling.com

Bruce Haley Interview - A look at his new book SUNDER

Bruce Haley, a Robert Capa Gold Medal Recipient, will premier his latest book SUNDER this Friday in New York City. This is Haley's first monograph produced directly from digital files. 


Terrance Reimer and Jeff Grandy of West Coast Imaging produced these files for Haley, working in close collaboration. We recently had a chance to talk with Haley about the book, the experiences photographing it, and preparing it for press.

BIO

Bruce Haley is the recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world. Haley received this honor for his coverage of Burma‘s bloody ethnic civil war.

This self-taught photographer with a military and police background began his career in 1988, covering Afghanistan‘s mujahideen resistance to Soviet occupation; shortly thereafter the legendary Howard Chapnick accepted Haley into Black Star, one of the industry‘s premiere photo agencies. With a primary focus upon war and its aftermath, Haley photographed areas of conflict in Asia, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union. His images (from Burma) of a grisly execution by stabbing shocked the world and engendered much controversy and discussion. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Baltimore Sun in 1992, for helping to break the story of the famine in Somalia. Over the course of 20+ years in the field, Haley has expanded his subject matter well beyond the battlefield; working across multiple camera formats, he has explored topics as diverse as the Bolivian altiplano, Eastern Europe‘s persecuted Roma (Gypsies), the decaying infrastructure of Soviet-era industry, and the timber and extractive industries in the American West.

Haley‘s photographs have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide, as well as in corporate publications and on CD, video and DVD covers; his clients include Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, GEO, Aperture, Esquire, Georgia-Pacific and the Chevron Corporation. Numerous magazines and newspapers have profiled Haley and his work, among them American PHOTO, (French) PHOTO, B&W, and UTNE Reader. His limited-edition portfolio, entitled 13 Million Tons of Pig Iron, was #1 on the Photo-Eye Bestseller List.  In addition to publications, Haley‘s exhibition prints have been shown in museums and galleries all over the world.

INTERVIEW
WCI: Tell us a little about how your monograph SUNDER, that was photographed between 1994 and 2002 in the former USSR and around the Iron Curtain countries, was first initiated and the circumstances that brought you to this hauntingly beautiful landscape.

BH:  Being born in 1957 means that a sizable portion of my life to date was spent under the “Cold War” cloud:  the space race, the arms race, etc. etc.  I had traveled with the mujahideen in the mountains of Afghanistan as they fought the Russians, and had also covered the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia.  But in 1994 I was invited to do something that was a bit different for me at the time:  to accompany a delegation from British Parliament, Lords and Ladies and etc., on a fact-finding mission to Nagorno Karabakh.  Armenia and Azerbaijan had waged a ferocious war over this region, and had recently signed a cease-fire agreement (interestingly enough, this same cease-fire is still in effect 16 years later, with no permanent resolution  -  and there have been violations of the agreement and casualties during this entire time).

I went along with the Members of Parliament for their week-long trip, and then used my official paperwork and access to stay in the region for an additional six weeks and work on my own.  Since so much of my work up to this point had been conflict-based, it was quite different for me to photograph a quiet period, a time when people were trying to put their lives back together and establish some sense of normalcy for the sake of their children.  The resilience of the human spirit never ceases to amaze me!

There are nine photographs from this particular body of work in the new book, and they are the earliest, chronologically, so I suppose we can consider that trip to be the starting point and origin of SUNDER.  After that trip I spent a great deal of time in the former Iron Curtain countries, with a particular emphasis upon Romania.  I was fascinated by damn near everything, and my working method (if you can call it that) was a fickle combination of targeted subject matter and “wander around aimlessly and see what you find, or what finds you, or who asks you in their door and insists on pouring massive amounts of home-brewed alcohol down your throat.”  Mostly it was the latter, I confess...

The project turned into an 8-year maelstrom of wonder and fascination:  I’m on my way to photograph a pilgrimage in Slovakia, but from the window of the train I see a massive abandoned factory that looks like something out of a sci-fi film, so I grab all my stuff and hop out at the next stop and backtrack to find it and shoot it...  this leads to me making specific trips in 2000 and 2002 just to photograph industrial sites with my Xpan...  or in the early days I was in a marketplace when a group of Kalderash women in their colorful traditional clothing came swirling through the crowd, and I was absolutely transfixed by the way they moved...  I knew then and there that I had to make a concerted effort to photograph the Roma (Gypsies), to find encampments that would welcome me in and allow me to shoot in a relaxed, candid, fly-on-the-wall manner...  it wasn’t at all easy to find such conditions, and I devoted much of my work in 1996 and 1997 to it, but it did happen.

So a great deal of 1994 - 2002 went by in a blur  -  my son Brendan was born in 1995, so I was a new father, and all the while I was working on what would ultimately become a photographic “octopus”  -  vaguely labelled my “post-communist project,” it grew and grew and sprouted new arms and went off in different directions, all the while ostensibly staying under that “post-communist” umbrella...  by 2003, however, I was ready for something else, and started turning my attention to the American West...  but the “post-communist project” had been a helluva ride..!

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WCI:  To my knowledge, this monograph is your first project utilizing digital scanning of your black and white film to generate press ready files for the production of the book.  Can you share your personal thoughts and observations on this process while working and collaborating with WCI.  Were there any pleasant surprises along the way?

BH:  Yes, it is the first time I’ve used digital for a project of this size and importance.  But working with WCI was wonderful -  from the initial drum scans by Jeff Grandy, to working intensely with master printer Terrance Reimer.  I really couldn’t have asked for more  -  Terrance was really into making the project look exactly like I wanted it to look, and we worked side-by-side, over the phone, through e-mail, and he was always ultra-responsive to every little thing I mentioned...  so all in all, it was a great experience!  I’ve already finished another big project, and WCI is getting that one as well  -  so that should say something about my overall satisfaction!

And yes, there were definitely some pleasant surprises along the way  -  with a number of images we were able to draw out or hold certain small, fine details that I had never been able to hold in a traditional wet darkroom, details that enhanced the overall impact of the image, so that was a major plus to working in this manner.

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WCI:  Spending eight years with this project made for an enormous collection of imagery to pull from during the editing process for the monograph SUNDER.  Can you discuss or share your insight to the editing process you embrace for such a large project?  Do you work or collaborate with any other visual editors to assist in this creative endeavor?  For you, what resonates most during the editing of your own work?

BH:  With this project there was a massive amount of material to draw from, and it covered quite a broad range of subject matter as well; and to make things even more difficult, it was shot in multiple camera formats and films, depending upon how I felt like depicting the subject I happened to be shooting at the time.  I used 35mm, I used panoramic, I used fine film, I used very grainy film, etc.; about the only constant was that it was all shot in black and white.  And while shooting in this manner works just fine for me on a day to day basis, it presents a different dynamic when it’s time to edit it into book form, into a sequence that has resonance and meaning and flow.

I’m sort of a “lone wolf” type of guy, and when I get an idea about how something should be, I stick to it  -  the end result is either pretty much what I had envisioned, or I don’t allow it to see the light of day.  When I first thought of putting this book together, I wanted to do exactly what I just described:  mix up a wide range of subject matter, mix up the 35mm with the panoramics, mix up the fine film with the grainy film.  However, I had a number of well-known publishers and bookmakers tell me not to do it that way;  they said that I needed a separate book for the industrial images, another book for the Roma (Gypsy) images, etc. etc..   However, I disagreed  -  life isn’t like that, it isn’t neatly compartmentalized, and when you travel you don’t just see one thing  -  you see this whole vast array of people and places, beauty next to ugliness, simplicity next to complexity...  you’re shooting inside the most devastated, polluted industrial site imaginable, and then you’re shooting in an unspoiled mountain forest...  you’re shooting a group of Roma living next to a garbage dump, and then you’re shooting a beautiful young girl standing next to a river at dusk, with the most magnificent line of trees on the far bank...  I wanted my edit for the book to reflect that, and not simply focus upon one type of subject matter; not all bad, not all good, just life.........

I was very fortunate in that the co-publishers of this book,
Charta Art Books ( http://www.chartaartbooks.it/ )
and the Daylight Foundation ( http://www.daylightmagazine.org/ )
believed from the start in the total package that I had put together  -  my edit, my sequence, my title, the people I brought on board for the texts, etc.  -  and so we just took what I had and ran with it.  I had already brought Clint Eastwood and his wife Dina on board, I had Andrei Codrescu’s fantastic essay already in the can, the poet Kirsten Rian had written a wonderful piece for the book...  so none of that ever changed  -  I told the contributors at the very beginning that their piece would stay exactly how they wanted it to be, with no editorial meddling, or we wouldn’t do the book.  Andrei Codrescu said that he didn’t like to write about photography, that he had been wanting to write a sequel essay to his book The Hole in the Flag (about the Romanian revolution), and he thought that this would be a great venue for such a piece.  I told him to go ahead and write it exactly like he had been wanting to write it, and that’s how it would be published.  So in the end, what I had put together as a concept and a package, what I had wanted this particular book to be, is exactly what the purchasers of SUNDER will hold in their hands.

As for the actual edit and sequence of images that ended up in the book, this came about over a period of years.  Much of the work had already been “road-tested,” in that it had been published in magazines or shown in exhibitions, etc., so I already had some idea of what I thought had legs, what other people responded to, and so on; in this respect you are at somewhat of an advantage when editing older work (on the other hand, the disadvantage is that you as the photographer might also be tired of seeing photographs that you’ve been printing and showing for ten or fifteen years; you must then struggle against your jaded eye).  So when it came down to this final book edit, there was already a core group of “keepers” that I knew had to be included; other images came in and out, in and out, in various configurations, and then I’d get to the point where I couldn’t even look at any of it anymore, and have to leave it for a while.  Then one day, not long before the actual publishing process really ramped up, I hit what seemed to me to be the best edit I could glean from that huge body of work, while still keeping it at my target of 55 images, and that’s exactly what’s in SUNDER.  No one else wanted to change it either, so there it is...

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WCI:  What sets your work apart from other photographers?

BH:  That’s not for me to say.......

WCI:  How would you describe your photography?

BH:  I wouldn’t...

WCI:  Please list the cameras and lenses you use:

BH:  I still use the first camera I ever bought - a Nikon FM2.  One of the best cameras ever made.  That and a 35mm lens is about all I need in the field, really.  But I also have a Nikon F4, which replaced the F3 I had that went swimming in Burma.  I have a Hasselblad Xpan, with the 45mm and 90mm lenses (although I never use the 90).  I have a Linhof Tech IV, a Speed Graphic, and probably some others that I’m forgetting.  However, the camera I’ve used for my most recent projects is the Tomiyama Art Panorama 624, with a Nikkor SW120mm lens on it; I also had the body customized so that it has front rise.  That extreme 4:1 aspect ratio is daunting, and very difficult to compose properly, but when it works it’s awesome!

WCI:  What do you like about working with West Coast Imaging?

BH:  (See above, in the main interview)

WCI:  Why should other photographers use West Coast Imaging?

BH:  Bottom line:  because they LISTEN, and they CARE, and they know their stuff...!

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WCI:  What inspires you?

As trite as it may sound, the world inspires me, life inspires me!  I’m still as excited about the medium of photography as I was the day I started out, hoping to make my living this way, back in 1988.  Everywhere I look, all the time while I’m driving, I see something I would like to photograph; the only time I’m not mentally composing images is when I’m asleep! I’ll be 54 next month, so I’m more aware of my mortality, and that in a certain sense I’m racing the clock  -  there is still so much I want to do with the camera!  The sense of urgency keeps growing...

I have no background in art or photography  -  I’m completely self-taught.  My photographic education consisted of buying an all-manual camera (my Nikon FM2, which I still use) and a couple of battered books:  Kodak’s The Joy of Photography and Kodak’s More Joy of Photography -  that’s it...!  And the only advice I’ve ever gotten about my work was in late 1988, when Howard Chapnick accepted me into the Black Star agency and told me the famous Robert Capa mantra: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”

However, long before I became interested in photography I was buying, borrowing, and studying every book on classical art that I could get my hands on  -  so when I eventually did come to photography I was already well grounded in formal composition, perspective, light, chiaroscuro, etc. etc.  In my mind this has helped me immensely; in fact, I probably still spend more time with my painting books than I do with my photography books.  I have a large collection, with emphasis in such areas as the Pre-Raphaelites, the Barbizon School, the French Rural Tradition, and the Symbolists; William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean-Francois Millet, Jules Breton, George Inness, Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth  -  my day is lessened if I don’t spend time with these great artists!

In photography, I would say that my three main sources of inspiration are Josef Sudek, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Paul Strand.  If I were to make it a Top 5 list, I would add Frederick Evans and Andre Kertesz.  No doubt because of my age and time in the medium, I appreciate photographers who stayed vital and made strong work over multiple decades, who explored a broad range of subject matter and didn’t fall into some comfortable rut (which is one of the pitfalls of a long life spent in the arts!).  That, to me, is very important.

There are two book that I recommend for every photographer:  Why People Photograph by Robert Adams, and Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth:  A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth by Thomas Hoving.  Both are inexpensive and easy to find.  And don’t dismiss the Wyeth book simply because he is a painter  -  there is tremendous insight to be gleaned from a close reading of this volume.

The Myth of the Screen to Print Match

By Rich Seiling

One of the biggest misconceptions in color management is the belief that you calibrate your monitor and printer to match each other.

If you think that’s how it works, you’re not alone. And that belief will cause you problems and frustration at one point or another, if it hasn’t already.

Want to break through the misconception and learn how it really works? It’s not hard, it just requires a little under the hood knowledge of color management.

Let’s start with an example from music. Consider this: If a guitarist and a cellist were playing the same piece of music, would you expect the guitar to sound like the cello? No. We all know that the character of instruments is different, even if they are playing the same notes, so we don’t expect them to be the same. This is also how we should think (though, to a lesser degree) about monitors and prints.

The problem with the idea of making your monitor and printer “match” is that it forgets about the file itself…and the fact that the file is the most accurate representation of color.

Files, by their nature, are what contain the colors we want to reproduce. They are the most accurate representation, even though they record color in a numeric form our eyes can’t see. To see the colors, we need output devices, monitors and printers, which convert those numbers into a visual representation. To understand how they work together, we need to understand how colors are stored and translated.

Files contain the formula to actual colors, not just a vague definition of a color. A pixel value of 211R 0G 0B doesn’t just mean the 231st step of red above zero. It means a very specific color, as plotted in the spectrum as defined by a specific ICC profile.

The problem with monitors and printers is that they are each limited in the colors they can reproduce. This is constrained by things like gamuts (the range of colors they can create) and white points. When we measure and define the colors a device can produce, we have its colorspace, which can be described in a ICC profile.

The file almost always has more colors than the devices we use to display color. The way color management works is it uses these ICC profiles which describe a device’s colorspace to map the colors from the file’s colorspace into the device’s colorspace as accurately as possible.

Why? Well, you can’t just feed a pixel value of 211R 0G 0B from the file into a printer or monitor and expect to get the right color red. In all likelihood, you’ll need to feed in an entirely different combination of RGB values to the output device in order to get the same exact color as defined by 211R 0G 0B in the file. The color profile contains the information that lets the computer translate color from one colorspace to another.

This is the important point. Color management IS NOT trying to make the monitor match the printer. Instead, it’s trying to make each device, independently of any other device, represent the file as accurately as it can, within its own limitations. The file is always the starting point; monitors and printers are just representations of the file.

The reason we see a “match” between profiled monitors and printers is this: When we make each device represent color as accurately as possible, if the two devices are similar enough, then those two devices often display the color in a similar manner…so similar that we can say we have a “match.”

This is what leads to the idea of the “match,” and that idea causes many photographers great frustration. When one of the devices is more accurate than the other (usually the print, because a good print is more accurate than any monitor), then the photographer sees a difference between the two, and no longer thinks they are “matching.” The usual response is to think something has gone wrong, because they are expecting a match.

Instead, the photographer should understand what color management does, and conclude that they are seeing the limitations of the device. You have to realize that devices like monitors do not represent the print 100% of the time so you can shatter the myth of the match.

Now, I’m not recommending you throw away your color-accurate monitor, but to understand and work with its limitations. A true color-accurate monitor that has been accurately profiled can produce an extremely good “match” to a print for a wide variety of photographic applications. But when it doesn’t, we should look at the print (printed with a proven ICC profile) as the most accurate representation. One would not expect a student violin to sound like a Stradivarius, would they? So, while our monitor may be good for many performances, we’ll need to pull out the Stradivarius (the print) for our most breathtaking music.

Color Management is called “management” not “matching” for a reason, and now you know why!

Rich Seiling is a photographer and the owner of West Coast Imaging. You can read more of his articles at craftingphotographs.com

Ask WCI - Banding Blues on New imac

Q:

i have a new imac and i have been having some trouble with banding in blue skies. i have inspected certain files on different monitors, and the banding is more obvious on this imac monitor. i was wondering if you could tell me... have you seen this sort of issue arise with the newer imacs? and do you believe it is a result of having a monitor that is that much better than previous incarnations, or do you believe there are shortcomings that would create the banding problem with this situation?

A:

You are seeing the limitations of display technology. Seeing banding on screen in large areas of even to somewhat graduated color is very common, particularly in blue skies. In most cases, this banding is not something that's in the file, it a false rendering of the file by the display system because of the limitations of a particular setup. There is no setup that will eliminate it 100% of the time, but in most cases it will not show up in the print because it is not in the file. It can be caused by a number of different causes from the physical hardware, video card, profile, monitor settings, and probably more. Proofing the file with a hard proof will tell you if this is in the file or just the monitor.

In regards to the imac, I have no experience with the new imacs, but since there are multiple causes for this phenomenon, I would not distrust your imac. If you looked hard enough I'm sure you'd find lots of files that showed banding on monitor A and not monitor B, and other files that were the opposite.

Rich Seiling

Calypso Recommends West Coast Imaging

From Joe Levine of Calypso Imaging:

Dear Friends,

After careful thought and consideration, we want to recommend to you West Coast Imaging for any and all of your digital imaging projects. WCI has long been a competitor of ours, and has earned our respect and admiration for the quality of their work and the integrity of their business practices. Rich Seiling, the owner of WCI (with wife Susan), is a fine photographer and an incredibly informed digital imaging expert. Rich and I have spoken at length about the nature of our respective clients, and find ourselves on the same page in terms of providing service and quality. I have visited WCI in Oakhurst California on a number of occasions and know first hand of the high standards that they adhere to.

WCI provides most of the same services that Calypso has provided to you. Take a look at their web sitehttp://www.westcoastimaging.com/ to get an idea of their technical proficiency and dedication to photographic image making. I strongly suggest that you have us transfer to WCI the files that you currently have archived with Calypso which will assist in a smooth transition and provide the least interruption of services to you. (We, of course, will only do this with your written permission, so send us an e-mail and tell us to do so!).

I think you will find Rich and his staff most approachable and eager to partner with you in your imaging projects. WCI is located near Yosemite, in a spectacularly beautiful part of California, and I am sure they would make you feel welcome if you were to give them a little notice of your arrival.

Best regards,

Joe Levine

Calypso Imaging

Calypso Sheet Alternative

With the closing of our competitor Calypso, many customers are contacting us about alternatives to the 50x50 sheet package that Calypso offered.

With their deal, you could build a 50x50 inch sheet of prints (max size 10x15 per print) and you got the whole sheet for $115. For 8x10s, that worked out to $3.83 each, and for 10x15s it was $7.66 each. Of course you had to add your labor to trim the prints from their rough cuts.

That was a really attractive deal, but we’ve got an even better deal for you. Our sister company, Aspen Creek Photo offers 8x10s for $1.99 each (almost half off the Calypso sheet price) and 10x15s for $6.79 (a savings of 87¢)

But that’s not all! With Aspen Creek Photo, there is no need to build sheets. Order as many or as few prints as you need. They come fully trimmed so they save you labor, and we offer 14 different sizes from 3.5x5 to 11x14 for small prints.

All you have to do is go to aspencreekphoto.com and use the easy ROES ordering software to place your order. Most orders ship in 48 hours or less.