Creating a Landscape Photography Gallery at Home

Printing Landscape Photographs at Home

If you’ve been reading my blog or watching my YouTube channel for a while you know I’m a big fan of printing! For me it’s an exciting part of the photographic process as I take a digital image and make it a physical photograph.

Regular readers/viewers will also know that last year I was lucky enough to photograph one of my bucket list locations, the Isle of Harris and the Isle of Lewis. I managed to capture some wonderful images but after sharing them on this blog, and social media, I knew I was going to not only have to print one image but a whole gallery of them!

I thought this would make for an interesting video, so I’m very pleased to share with you this video on how I went about creating my very own landscape photography gallery at home.

What happens to your photos after you publish them on social media? Do they just sit on a digital archive somewhere? In this video, I show you how I took some of my favourite images from a recent adventure to Harris & Lewis and made them into my very own home gallery.

My Landscape Photography Adventure to the Outer Hebrides

As I mentioned in the video I created a video of my adventure to the Outer Hebrides, so if you are interested in seeing how some of the photographs I used in this printing video were created, you can see it here:

Looking for a new bucket list location for your landscape photography? In this video, I share with you some of the amazing locations I discovered while photographing two of the Outer Hebrides most famous locations, Harris and Lewis. These locations have been on my bucket list for some time now and I'm pleased to say they did not disappoint!

Products Used in Video

In the video I also said I would list out some of the products and equipment I used to create the gallery:

• Fotospeed papers:

  • Platinum Baryta 300 Signature Paper

  • Platinum Etching 285 Signature Paper

  • Platinum Cotton 305 Paper

  • FYI - You can find the Fotospeed Tips and Tricks Facebook page here.

• Printed using a Canon Pixma Pro-10S

• Picture frames from Picture Frames Express

• Ikea Picture Ledges

• Those white cotton gloves I use to handle the paper

My Other Printing and Processing Videos

I also mentioned in the video that I would share with you all my other videos on printing and processing:

How do I calibrate my monitor? How do I profile my printer? How do I improve the quality of the photographs I print? You don't need to be a colour expert to improve the way your images look on screen and in print.

In this video I talk about why I have decided to start printing my own work and what it what is was like to print my first A3 image using a Canon Pixma Pro-10s.

In this video I expand my printing skills by printing a panoramic image on panoramic paper and then mounting it into a custom-made panoramic frame. I also take a look at some different paper types to try and see what impact each one has on an image.

In my latest video I show you how I edit my landscape images using Adobe Lightroom. In the video I process 3 images, each one using slightly different techniques and I use features / tools such as contrast, dehaze, spot removal, graduated filters, transform, colour / range mask, and sharpening.

I've been using Adobe Lightroom since version 3 and over the years I developed a workflow to manage my photographs from import to export. In this video I share with you that workflow so you can see how I use Lightroom to import my photographs, select them for processing, keyword them, rate them and prepare them for export.

There’s Always Something to Print

I do hope you enjoyed my video on creating your own landscape photography gallery, and hopefully it has inspired you to print a little more. I highly recommend it!

Do you print at home? Do you have somewhere to create your own gallery? Is there another video on printing you would like to see me produce? Let me know in the comments below.