The Print Space - Giclee Hahnemühle Photo Rag Review
My wife and I have had a few photos printed this month as Christmas gifts and I thought I would post our experiences as well as keep track of the print types we prefer in a series.
My wife took the photo (above) while in Copenhagen with a good friend, who the gift is for. We love giving photos as gifts because you are really giving a feeling or memory especially if it is a moment you shared like this one is. She chose it because it worked well in black and white as well as a square crop.
I have had a few small things printed at The Print Space in Shoreditch and have been very happy with the results, so we took a look at their Giclee prints which we thought would really suit the photo.
We ended up picking Hahnemühle Photo Rag. The Print Space describe it this way:
At 308g.s.m. this is a heavy art paper, with a fibrous finish. The paper softens the image and mutes the colours giving a watercolour feel to the final image.
Photorag is perfect for a high quality black and white print; it has deep blacks and whites while preserving subtlety in the mid-tones. We discovered detail in the birds’ wings we didn’t actually notice on the monitor, but stands out beautifully in the print.
The texture and weight of the paper work really well with the grain in this type of photo. I would be very interested to try printing some color images on this paper.
After ordering online we had our prints within three days packed very well in plastic, tissue paper and a poster tube. I would definitely recommend The Print Space for the service as well as quality.
Gear Used:
Canon 20D w/ Canon 50mm 1.8
1/1600th F11 (iso 1600)
Edited in Lightroom and Photoshop
Detail photos taken with iPhone 3Gs
*If you are prepping images for print take a look at the tutorial videos The Print Space have put together; we wouldn’t have had such great results without prepping correctly.
Update: David Clapp has just published a great review on his blog about more services the Print Space offer
