Hi all
Do any of you get your astro images printed? I find theres no way of getting a print that looks anywhere near as good as they do on the monitor. Ive tried cheap photolabs in supermarkets, and more specialist places, but none ever give me prints that do my images justice, they never ever look as good as on the monitor. Some give me prints that lose dynamic range, either too dark, or with brighter parts of galaxies burnt out even though the originals on the monitor look great with no such burning out, one lot even had "guide error" that wasnt in the originals, the paper must have moved as they were printed.
This is why Ive never entered any of my images in the David Malin Awards, they dont accept images in electronic form, only prints.
What Australia needs is a photolab that specializes in ONLY deep sky astro images and nothing else.
This is why I post my images in IIS, its the only place I can show my images as they are meant to be
Scott