Print sizes and prices

A print on A3+ paper (c.18 x 12in / 45 x 30cm) costs £90 plus postage.

A 'medium' print on A3 (c.14 x 9.5in / 36 x 24cm) costs £75 plus postage.

A print on A4 paper (c.11 x 7in / 28 x 18.5cm) costs £60 plus postage.

(These sizes are for images that are in pro to my 35mm/3:2 ratio originals; cropped images will usually be a little shorter and squarer.)

How to place an order

If you e-mail me with the title of the photograph(s) you’d like, the address you want the print(s) sent to, and what size you want then to be, I’ll reply confirming the cost (including postage) and how long it’ll take to produce and ship the print (usually two or three weeks), and e-mail you a PayPal invoice so you can pay by credit card. Alternatively, if you have a UK bank account, you can pay by cheque and I’ll send the print as soon as it’s cleared. The print will be sent in either a reinforced card envelope or a strong postal tube.

Contact me with your order here.

About the prints

I produce my prints myself, and work on them until they come alive. I don’t do any radical post-capture manipulation: I just try and bring out the excitement of the photograph for me. This involves techniques that parallel traditional darkroom work: cropping, getting the contrast and colour balance right, getting the exposure or tonal range as I want (I might want to lighten the midtones or the shadows, for example), and using selective darkening, saturation or sharpening to emphasize my subject. Of course it was extremely difficult to do this with traditional colour printing, and beyond the reach of most photographers – so computers have put us on a level footing with black and white photographers! My older images, captured on film, have a character from the particular film I used; I feel there’s a danger with digital capture of trying to be ‘accurate’ at the expense of the kind of sensual satisfaction (and sometimes colour surprises) that colour film can give you – so I try to remember to experiment quite dramatically when I’m deciding on the direction for an image.

I print on my Stylus Photo 2100 printer, using Epson Archival Matte paper. The prints should have a dark storage life of 110 years and a display life of at least 60 years (framed) before there’s any shift in the colours (these estimates are from the independent Willhelm Imaging Research site). I supply them unmatted and unframed, and find nearly all of them work well with simple black mounts (choose black-core board in order to avoid a fussy pale line around the image) and frames; or cream mounts and pale wood frames.

I sign, date and title the prints just outside the image area. I don’t believe in limited editions – they run counter to the reality of modern printing (it’s not as if I’m using a silk screen or a wooden block that’ll deteriorate in quality after a certain number of impressions!); plus I hope that I shall be able to produce even better prints in future as printer gamuts get wider.

Whatever you do, it’s impossible to make a screen image match a paper print; nor, unfortunately, can I control how the colours will appear on your computer (theoretically, if you have a calibrated monitor and a browser that supports colour profiles – which I think at the moment means using Safari – they should look to you exactly as they do to me; but most people won’t be in that position). Therefore I offer a no-quibble money-back guarantee: just return the print in its original condition and I’ll refund your money immediately if you’re not happy with it for any reason.