Have you ever taken your photos to your local photo lab or electronics shop, spent half an hour on a touch screen loading up the pictures you want to print, only to be disappointed by them being too contrasty, or dark, or maybe over-saturated?
It’s a frustrating experience. These days everyone has self-serve system software that automatically adjusts your images to a specific “punchy” look that makes your pictures jump out at you. As far as I have seen, there are no reset options to pass images through without auto-adjustment anymore and self-serve system screens often are poorly calibrated to actual printed output. Well, for those of you who live in or near Australia, help may be at hand.
Enter RGB Digital Pro Photo Lab. Looking for somewhere to print wedding pictures for a wedding I shot earlier this year, I stumbled across these guys and gave them a go. The results to say the least were highly impressive (and fast service too).
Look below for a results comparison between the original digital file, the RGB Digital Pro Photo Lab print and the print from a major Australian electronics retailer using the Fujifilm Frontier system. Note the tonality, colour and overall impression of the final results.
(please take into account that I have scanned the printed images, so there will always be some shift in colour and tonality compared to the original digital file due to the character of the printing paper/materials)
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- Original
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- RGB
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- Australian Retailer
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- Oiginal
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- RGB
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- Australian Retailer
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- Original
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- RGB
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- Australian Retailer
So if your really care about your prints, I’d urge you to have a look at RGB Digital Pro Photo Lab.
*I’d appreciate any feedback on RGB – I don’t want to pass out compliments to companies that don’t deserve it.
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