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You NEED to be printing your photos!! Here's why.. - YouTube
Channel: Peter McKinnon
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what's up everybody Peter MacKinnon here
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and today we're talking about why you
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you need to be printing the shots
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there's so many reasons why we're going
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to get into them now so let's roll that
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intro you guys remember the darkroom
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little red light in there super cool
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felt like you were a Navy SEAL on a
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mission coming up through the all the
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chemicals that smelled so good you'd put
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the paper in watch it exposed hang it up
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to dry you were in control of the future
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of your own photos it was like the
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second half of photography the first
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half was going out there and shooting it
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you know find the film and putting your
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camera doing the thing the second half
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was coming back and making that image
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come to life and I feel like over the
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years obviously that's shifted now that
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we're in the digital realm of things and
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it's just fire off a thousand and yep
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boom Wi-Fi them to your computer and
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Lightroom that Sh is up and then boom
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airdrop to the IG we're double tapping
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all day long that process is gone gone
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are the days 2017 folks however that to
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me that sucks
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that's unfortunate where I love
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Instagram and I love digital and I love
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where everything's gone some of you
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watching may even be like I've never
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even stepped foot in the darkroom I've
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just heard about it before it looks cool
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but they don't even do it at my school
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anymore or college maybe if you go for
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photography you might have experienced
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that kind of thing it just kind of makes
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me uh it kind of got me thinking this
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weekend I thought to myself you know
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people don't print their work enough and
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there are so many benefits that come
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from printing your stuff out so let's
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run through a few of those benefits
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benefit number one are understanding
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just by printing your shots you
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understand your photography so much
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better they're going to see things that
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you would never have seen if your photos
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weren't printed it looks completely
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different when you see a print in person
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that you're holding in your hands versus
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that same photo backlit on a five-k
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monitor with LEDs behind it making it
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look nice and bright totally different
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you might be like wow I actually
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severely under expose this or who I was
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to actually sell this to someone both
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blacks need to come way up that I can't
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even see the foreground that I could
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very easily see on my computer I don't
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even super interesting stuff so
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understanding your own work
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official you guys know that we've talked
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about that you know that understanding
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shows you where your camera might lack
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or maybe where your camera excels you
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might get that print back and say oh
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this is exactly everything I needed to
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be this is perfect I love the way these
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look online I love the way they look
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when I post them on Instagram I printed
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13 by 1917 by 22 4 by 6 I printed all
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these different versions they look just
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as good I'm just as happy yes or it
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might be the latter you might be like
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yeah the stuff looks good on Instagram
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horrible prints all the points of detail
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in that photo that I thought were really
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really good ended up being super muddy
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and just not in focus as much as I
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thought they were it also comes down to
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the printer you're using but we'll talk
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about that a little bit the second point
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I kind of want to bring up is it's
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printing your shots darkroom whatever
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it's kind of like the second half of
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photography you know you used to go out
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shoot come back and then process your
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images in the darkroom and then you
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would frame them or give them away or
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sell them or whatever but that has been
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replaced now like I said with digital
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where we don't really come back to the
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darkroom now that darkroom is now Adobe
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Lightroom and then we just upload our
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shots to social media and when we carry
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on but half the fun a lot of the
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satisfaction that comes with photography
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and you guys know you're out there
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shooting a landscape it's nice and calm
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and soothing and therapeutic or the lens
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it's hectic but you get a rush depending
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what you're shooting you come back and
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you're just like what a great time
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there's a whole other half to that that
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comes with printing your own work that's
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like as equally as fun and satisfying as
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the whole first part of shooting and you
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don't get that when you don't print your
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stuff being able to pick the paper that
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you want or the matte or glossy or
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different thicknesses of paper and maybe
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pick a frame that suits the shot the
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best that matches the colors of the
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tones in your photo and then printing
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out a couple samples and getting a small
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version and a huge version of being able
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to see that print come to life into
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something physical that you can hold and
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then put into a frame and sell to
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someone or give away or hang in your own
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office for inspiration or hang in
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someone else's office so they can be
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inspired that's a whole second side to
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photography that that we miss out on if
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we're not printing our own shots now the
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argument is do we print our shots at
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home or do we print them somewhere else
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I mean there's a whole slew of websites
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goes you just do a quick google where I
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print my photos they're going to find
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tons of results notes labs do a great
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job you can send your stuff out pick
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what size you want they'll ship it back
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to the turnaround time when that sucks
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pretty good so if you can't afford or
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you don't have any interest and actually
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doing your own home printing those
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options are still there and I recommend
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you try those options out because it's
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still the same all those principles all
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these ideas still apply to taking those
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photos out of the package once it
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arrives in the mail and seeing your own
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physical work as something tangible
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instead of just a file that can be
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deleted that people are just double
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tapping on their iPhones or androids or
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whatever these days just picture this
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like you go out you take a photo that
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you love that you're super proud of you
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come back you edit it in Lightroom it
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looks phenomenal you just love it it
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ends there for the most part you put it
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up on Instagram you're done you stored
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away on your on your hard drive and the
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cloud wherever you're done you move on
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two months down the line you haven't
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looked at that photo for weeks and weeks
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and weeks it hasn't benefited anybody
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hasn't benefited you everyone has liked
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it it's come and gone on Instagram on
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Facebook on Twitter whatever it's
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essentially a part of your digital past
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now but instead of doing that imagine
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you also uploaded it but now you've
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printed it out you've taken that extra
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time to find the right paper or find the
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right eggs right printer if I'm the
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right lab you get it back where you hom
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print it you're holding it in your hands
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now you sign it you number it you put it
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in that frame you wrap it up and give it
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to someone else
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it's incredible not only is it
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incredible that other people now have
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your artwork hanging in their home but
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having other people's artwork hanging in
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your home why not hang your own artwork
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in your home so many people just go to
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Ikea and buy whatever photos that
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they've decided to sell and print onto
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canvas I see so many people when I'm at
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IKEA flipping through the canvases oh
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look another picture of New York it's
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all black and white and oh the cabs are
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yellow they're the only colorful thing
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in the photo I love it and they buy that
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print if we're buying prints and I see
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we use like a collective of people if we
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are buying prints from IKEA to hang in
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our homes why not hang your own artwork
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that you're proud of you went up into
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the world to shoot and create why not it
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has become a digital world but we still
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have the ability to
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create physical and tangible goods from
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our digital art and the main point of
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this video is that I urge you to try it
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even if it's a printer that you already
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own if it's a printer that you want to
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buy if it's a lab that you're going to
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send your stuff to I urge you to try it
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out because it really helps not only
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round you out as a better photographer
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it just helps you understand photography
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better and yourself better and it's just
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part of the process that's a little bit
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lost these days I really think that you
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guys would have a great time trying it
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out and exploring that side of
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photography that not many people do
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anymore this weighs 80 pounds I did this
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the wrong way I should have left this on
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the floor lifted it onto the desk oh my
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goodness need a break
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need a break it's a big printer very big
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printer look at the amount of ink
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cartridges that go in here and in the
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spirit of practicing when I preach and
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kind of connecting with you know what I
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used to do in photography I'm actually
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going to give away a print in this
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episode I'm going to set up this printer
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that I just got that I'm super pumped
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about it prints beautiful huge large
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scale format prints I'm going to print
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one on video with you guys I'm going to
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sign a number and I'm going to give that
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print away so all you got to do just
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comment below why you want it and where
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you would hang it and then I'm just
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going to pick someone in the next
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episode of which you know I'm going to
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roll out up stick it into two I'm going
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to throw it into the air and an eagle is
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gonna scoop down and grab it with the
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challenge and if you're not fly I got a
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little carried away there what I meant
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to say is I'm going to mail it to you
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and you can have a little original one
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of one print that I'm going to do for
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you guys so it's no way of saying thanks
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for watching I appreciate you guys the
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community that we have built here in the
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amount of time that we've built it is
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something that I am just incredibly
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proud of and grateful for each and every
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one of you and I think that we can
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continue in
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inspiring each other every two comments
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and coming up with ways to just be
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better photographers better artists
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better storytellers and just enjoy this
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whole process in this this whole art
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form that is you know the visual medium
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of photography that we all love so much
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I said that with like way too many words
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I could have just said photography that
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we all love so much also I want to say
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I'm going to start doing print drops
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every now and then I'm going to print
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some of my favorite photos because it's
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something I've been wanting to do for a
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long time and in making this video I had
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so much fun and it really brought back a
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sense of nostalgia and urgency to print
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my work because I wanted to be out there
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so maybe I'll take five of my favorite
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photos at print three each of them sign
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and number them the link will be below
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I'm going to try and get that rollin out
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soon and I'll try to keep it updated as
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much as I can okay guys so that is it
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for me I hope you guys enjoyed this
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episode I mean I have a lot of fun
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making it it brought back a lot of good
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memories and it's some stuff that I
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really think needs to be taken into
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account and i 100% believe you guys will
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enjoy the process of printing your own
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stuff okay so comment below I want to
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send this print off to somebody thank
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you so much for watching like this video
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if you enjoyed it hit that thumbs up
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button smash it if you so desire
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subscribe if you aren't already and and
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I will see you guys in the next episode
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