Epson Ultra Premium Matte Paper

Yesterday I was able to get some Christmas shopping done, and then today I worked out in the yard all day! We've had such great weather I had to take advantage of it.

I did continue to finish up with some more cards, so I got that accomplished. On Sunday I also printed out some digital black and whites on Epson's Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte. Not every photographic image looks good on matte, and other papers I could say the same thing too. However, I did print out two black and white images on the matte paper and loved them both. This one I'm posting today is again from Burano. I tended to switch over to my programmed black and white function on the Canon T2i when I saw more of the 'still life' types of scenarios. This one was shouting out to me when I was there. It's just an image of ordinary everyday life there - the laundry hanging out to dry, the bikes left at the front yard - simplistic as it was, it was worthy of capturing. It printed out fabulously on the matte paper and I'm very happy with it. I'll mat as many as I can with the amount of mats I cut not long ago, then whatever I don't have, I'll cut.

Just to touch again on the ICC profiles for all papers, I have to admit years ago I would just do trial and error kind of printing. I mean, it was new to me and I guess I just loved wasting paper! Hah! But I learned that one should read the instructions for the settings - I mean it's all right there so you don't have to go thru all that wastefulness. So read the cheat sheets, that's what they're there for.