Optimal Light Photography

I sign and number each print.

My print service uses state-of-the-art digital photo printers that produce true silver-halide photo prints with an apparent resolution of 4000 dots per inch and yield a sharpness and color gamut unavailable with traditional film-exposure or digital inkjet printing technologies.  All of my prints are Chromogenic Photographs on Fuji Crystal Archive Professional matte, gloss and super gloss papers.

The color-critical matching is accomplished by employing the appropriate ICC Profile that is selected for the print material you choose. 

You will be absolutely delighted with the quality of the finished print!

Digital photographic technology is truly amazing. It has helped eliminate many of the constraints of traditional darkroom techniques, and permits photographers to more fully recreate our artistic visions. Digital technology offers better reproduction of the vibrancy of the light that the photographer sees when taking the photograph. Digital files also provide better detail, and can be enlarged without perceptual loss of clarity.

While digital technology can be used to completely change the content of an image, Tom only uses it to reproduce the original image as a print with the best possible color tones and detail. With digital techniques, it is easier to duplicate the subtle tones in the highlights and detail in the shadows and work with the colors and saturation.  Even the High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos are simply a series of the same scene, taken with the camera on a tripod to permit each photo to align perfectly with the others of the series.  Each photo is taken with a different exposure to capture the light and dark areas, and then combined to bring out those areas.  Nothing is added or removed from the actual scene.  The technique simply permits the observation of the subtle tones in the highlights and detail in the shadows.