Hi!
So as a photographer,
I've always been curious about
what the best printing method is.
Should you print on paper, cardboard, metal?
Inside these boxes, I printed out
24 of my Tiny Planet photos on canvases this big,
From my local office supplies store.
And you know how much it cost per photo and per canvas?
$40.
So, in this video, I thought it would be cool
to see whether you can actually get
a decent looking print on a canvas.
And yes, as you can see, I've already started,
I got a bit too excited.
Ooh!
Look at that,
it's actually quite big isn't it.
I can't believe I paid 40 US dollars for these.
Ooh.
Nice.
How good does this one look!
Wow!
I was thinking I could sort them by color temperature,
so have all the warmer, yellower prints
on that side
and the bluer ones on that side.
This is for my new YouTube background by the way.
I can't believe I'm on my third YouTube backdrop.
I remember my first one
was in a studio apartment I was living in
and my bed was literally behind me
and I had to cover it up using a long lens,
so you wouldn't see my bed
and all of my personal possessions.
Then the second one was the front room of my house
when I first moved out with my girlfriend.
And I covered that one with $2 prints
from the exact same store I bought these canvases from,
except they were way smaller and kind of annoying,
because they were shiny
and they'd also peel off the wall
and it didn't really end up looking the way
I was hoping in my head.
Now I've moved to a much bigger and better place.
I've got my own office now,
my own studio,
that I'm gonna cover these canvases in
and they're also good because they're not shiny.
I was getting a lot of reflections
with the previous photos,
whereas these ones kind of just absorb the light.
So, what do I think of the print quality?
Well, it's not bad.
It's not the best and it's not the worst,
but what I can say is that it's much better
than what I expected to get for 40 bucks.
Here, I'll put it up really close to the camera.
Yeah, you can see a bit of detail there.
If you get too close,
it does start looking a bit pixelated,
but from a distance
I'd say this is like two to three feet,
you're probably not gonna notice.
And this one here
did start as a really high quality photo.
I took this with my DJI Mavic Air
when I was in Iceland.
Whereas I do have others in my collection,
like this one
that was taken on my very first 360 camera,
the THETA m15
and the quality is garbage.
Look at that, no definition whatsoever,
but I guess that's not really the fault of the canvas
it's the fault of the photographer.
And this was my very first 360 photo by the way.
I took it about five years ago.
Had no idea what I was doing.
Then I edited it together.
Put it on Instagram
and got a world record nine likes on it!
(crickets chirping)
Yay!
By the way,
to state the obvious about what I'm doing.
Yes, it's another Tiny Planet wall
with a homage to my very first wall,
which was 2001: A Space Odyssey.
There you can see the Starchild
and on this side there's HAL9000.
When life gives you lemons,
print them on a canvas.
All right, so now I'm gonna start curating them.
Make sure they all look good next to one another
and that the colors complement each other.
Kind of like an Instagram grid.
And we're done.
That is looking pretty sweet.
This right here is about $200 worth of sticky strips.
Now, let's hang.
How good does that look?
I'll obviously control the light a lot better,
when I do future YouTube videos,
but yeah I'm so happy with this.
This is probably going to be the background,
that is my definitive background
that I'll still have years from now.
So this is the very first video that you saw it in.
Back to the quality
and I'm actually pretty happy with these.
They're not noticeably soft or anything
and especially from back here,
you're not gonna notice any kind of blurriness
or pixelation.
I've also found the color accuracy to be pretty decent.
These colors are almost identical
to what I was seeing on my computer screen.
And look, yes, this is definitely
a budget friendly printing method,
but I honestly have very few complaints about this.
I'm not even on a budget
and I found this to be a really good way
to print out my work
and cover my entire wall.
And if you're one of those photographers
that gets out a microscope
and looks for any form of blurriness
and says "this photo is garbage", then yeah,
I probably wouldn't advise getting canvas prints
because they're not that sharp,
but if you've ever had the idea to print out
a whole bunch of your photos and hang them on the wall
then I'd 1000% recommend trying something like this.
It doesn't really matter where you buy it from.
I just got mine from my local office supply store,
which is called Officeworks,
but I'm sure you've got an equivalent in your country.
I'm honestly really really happy with these, so yeah,
I think that's about it.
If you have any questions about printing on canvases,
let me know down in the comments.
Oh and incase you missed it in my previous video,
if you want to learn
how to make Tiny Planet photos like these ones here,
I'm now giving away my ebook,
A Beginner's Guide to Tiny Planet Photography,
completely free.
It used to be a paid product.
Now it's free,
so you can download that in the link in the description.
And that's it.
Subscribe and stuff and yeah,
see you next time.