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2016 Outstanding Year for DSI Customers

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©Iaritza Menjivar - First Generation
©Iaritza Menjivar

2016 was an outstanding year for Digital Silver Imaging’s customers. This is an incomplete list of some of the projects we printed. We want to thank ALL our clients for allowing us to bring their images to print. The most rewarding part of our job at Digital Silver Imaging is collaborating with such an interesting and talented community of photographers. Thank you for a fun and productive 2016.

Tess Atkinson – Art Colony Exhibition

Dawoud Bey – Early Photographs at the Stephen Daiter Gallery

Mathieu Bitton – Darker Than Blue Exhibition, Leica Gallery LA

Sheila Pree Bright –  Look3 and Candela Gallery in Richmond VA

Debi Cornwall – Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play, Gitmo on Sale, UARTS, STUMP, Candela Gallery

Sean Hemmerle – Paris Photo for Julian Sander Gallery

http://www.parisphoto.com/paris/artists/sean-hemmerle

Anthony Hernandez – Paris Photo for Thomas Zander Gallery

Thomas Hoepker – Camera Works Berlin

Kamoinge – Breaking Point Exhibition

Mark Mann – Lucha Libre Exhibition

Iaritza Menjivar – Iaritza is our own Social Media Marketing Assistant. Keep an eye on this talented photographer, she’s a rising star. – First Generation Exhibition, New York Times Lens Blog,

Maciek Nabrdalik – Exhibition Crossing Gallery Harvard

Mark and Eric Norbom – Time’s Hand Exhibition

Stacy Pearsal – Veterans Portrait Project

Mark Peterson – Political Theatre Exhibition

Linda Foard Roberts – A Place in Time, The Ogden Museum

Mark Robinson – New Moon Rises, Smithsonian Museum Exhibition

Ruddy Roye Image
©Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye – Look3, When Living is a Protest Steven Kasher Gallery, Time’s Instagram Photographer of the Year 2016 

WPOW – Women Photojournalists of Washington exhibition at the National Geographic for FotoDC

Please let us know
As mentioned, this is an incomplete list. If we made a print that appeared in a show or was purchased by a museum or collection please send us an email, or let us know when you place your print order. We love to feature our customers on our Facebook and Instagram sites.

A Different Way of Printing a Pulitzer Prize Winner

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©Stanley Forman
©Stanley Forman

Stanley Forman’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo, The Soiling of Old Glory, remains iconic, decades after it was captured. A white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black lawyer and civil rights activist, Ted Landsmark, seconds before he is struck with an American flag. The attack took place on April 5, 1976, during a protest in Boston against court-ordered desegregation of school busing.

Although this image has been viewed by thousands, the complete story of making the photograph had never been told, until Eric Luden at DSI had the idea of printing the entire negative strip.

The Pulitzer moment was nearly missed, when every press photographer’s nightmare occurred, equipment failure. The Boston Herald photographer struggled with his equipment, and managed to free the jammed film just in time to capture Rakes in the despicable act.

Digitally scanning the strip of 35mm film, shows the equipment malfunction and the one perfect image. Digital Silver Imaging made DSI Digital Silver Prints® of both the Pulitzer image and the film. Both are matted and framed and available for sale from Stanley’s website.

2016 Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Award Winners

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Digital Silver Imaging is please to announce the 2016 winners of our Portfolio Awards. The winners were selected by our 4 esteemed jurors, Steven Kasher, J. Sybylla Smith, Marianna Rothen, and John Lehr. The winners were selected in an anonymous review of the images, each submission was given a number, and no biographical information or statement was given to the jurors.

This is the second year Digital Silver Imaging has awarded these three $1250 printing grants to recent graduates. We hope this award will allow emerging photographers to continue producing photographic prints at a critical time in their development as artists.

This years winners are, in no particular order:

Ke Peng DSI Portfolio Award 2016
©Ke Peng

Ke Peng, BFA 2015 Rhode Island School of Design, visit her website

©Emily Sheffer
©Emily Sheffer

Emily Sheffer, BFA 2015 Massachusetts College of Art, visit her website

©Rachel Cox
©Rachel Cox

Rachel Cox, MFA 2013 University of New Mexico, visit her website

Congratulations to our talented winners. For more information about the Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Awards follow this link.

Exporting Files for Print in Lightroom

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Exporting files from Adobe Lightroom for printing is not always an intuitive process. We have put together this tutorial to show our customers how to export files to create the best prints possible using our services. To enlarge an image double click/right click on the image in the tutorial.

Lightroom CC

Step 1: In Lightroom select the image(s) you would like to export, then go to Menu>File and select Export

exporting from LR

Step 2: In the Settings select your file type (JPEG for our Direct-to-Print Service or TIF for our Custom Service) / Dimensions should be Full Size / Do not check Save Transparency or Add Watermark / For best quality do not check Compression / Metadata and Copyright settings are your choice / File Naming is your choice / Output Sharpening should be None (if your image needs sharpening apply it during your LR editting process) / Color Space > Adobe RGB

 

make selection of file type and color space Adobe RGB

Step 3: Click Export Photo button and the Export menu will appear. Select the destination for your exported files, we recommend creating a file for your exported files. Once the destination is select click the Export Photo button to finish. Upload exported file to Digital Silver Imaging.

select your destination photo

Step 5: Once finished exporting, your images will be in your selected folder and ready to upload/send to Digital Silver Imaging. You are now ready to upload your files to either our Direct-to-Print Service or our Custom Printing Service.

 

Lightroom Classic

Step 1: In Lightroom select the image(s) you would like to export, then in the Library module click Export or go to Menu>File and select Export

Step 2: In the Export Dialog Box after you choose the Export Location and file name you prefer scroll down to File Settings and select your file type (JPEG for our Direct-to-Print Service or TIF for our Custom Service) / Quality should be 100% / Do not check Limit File Size/  Color space should be Adobe 1998 

 

Step 3: scroll down to Image Sizing Here you can resize your image for print or if you are using our Custom Service you can leave that for us to do. Either way you should set your Resolution to 300 PPI 

Output Sharpening Leave unchecked, make all of your sharpening adjustments inside of Lightroom. Watermarking Do not check.


Step 4: Click export to finish, once exported locate the files in the export location you chose earlier and upload exported file to Digital Silver Imaging.

 

Ruddy Roye

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Ruddy Roye Image
©Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye and Digital Silver Imaging first collaborated at Photoville 2015. As a Photoville sponsor, we printed Roye’s exhibition, When Living is a Protest. This was the first time we had the pleasure of working with Roye and would begin a period of great achievement for this important artist.

Through the preliminary proofing process and production of  When Living is a Protest, both Roye and Digital Silver Imaging (DSI) understood that we could be good collaborators. At DSI we always strive to be a resource for our clients. Knowing that Ruddy often shot with a Leica, we introduced him to the good folks at Leica USA, who instantly took to his warm personality and great talent. Leica asked Roye to lead one of their prestigious Leica Akademie Workshops, which he did in Washington DC the following year.

Roye’s 2015 Photoville exhibition was noted as a “must see” by the New York Times, The Guardian, and many other reviewers. At that time Digital Silver Imaging was also making prints for photographer Thomas Roma, who was exhibiting at Steve Kasher Gallery in NYC. Kasher, one of the foremost experts in New York on civil rights era photography, connected with Roye through DSI and another exhibition resulted.

The exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery was Roye’s solo gallery debut. Digital Silver Imaging printed 20 large scale images on metallic paper. The combination of Roye’s colorful, sensitive and bold images were a challenge to print, but the resulting images are luminous and three dimensional due in part to the paper used. The gallery and Roye also had a flash sale of smaller, 8×8, prints also printed by DSI. Roye’s exhibition received accolades from reviewers and the public.

Along with Roye’s exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery, his work again appeared at Photoville 2016 in a group exhibition by the collective Kamoinge. All the prints in the Kamoinge exhibition were made by Digital Silver Imaging. He was also a featured artist at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph.

At the time of this post Randolph “Ruddy” Roye continues to make great work and he was just selected as TIME’s Instagram Photographer of the Year. We’d like to congratulate Ruddy on his well deserved recognition. Working with Ruddy has been our privilege, and we hope to collaborate with him for years to come.

Photoville 2016

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Kamoinge Exhibit - Photoville ©Charles Madison
Kamoinge Exhibit – Photoville ©Charles Madison

Digital Silver Imaging is proud to again be a partner at Photoville 2016. We also honored to print the exhibitions of photographers Mark Peterson, Robin de Puy, and group exhibits Kamoinge‘s Exhibition Breaking Point and Live ZEKE.

©Robin De Puy - Photoville
©Robin De Puy – Photoville

Photoville will be in a new location, The Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, under the bridge and in the heart of DUMBO. The event will take place over 5 days, September 21-25. Admission is FREE to the public.

For the uninitiated, Photoville is multiple photographic exhibitions in a city of repurposed shipping containers.  The brain child of United Photo Industries, this unique event features more than 60 photo exhibits, 35 lectures and workshops, food and drink. In fact it is the largest photographic event in New York City and worth a trip to Brooklyn.

Social Documentary Network/ZEKE Magazine ©Daro Sulakauri
SDN/ZEKE Magazine ©Daro Sulakauri

Digital Silver Imaging is a Major Partner of Photoville 2016. We believe that supporting the diverse genre of photographic work exhibited at Photoville is essential to keeping the art form vibrant and meaningful. Please visit the photographers directly support by Digital Silver Imaging and all the great exhibits at this year’s Photoville.

Follow this link to the Photoville Website