About ELM Photography
Operated by Ed and Linda Morris of Richmond, Virginia, ELM Photography markets Ed's award-winning nature, landscape, scenic, and model railroad photography at art shows and through publications. Ed's model railroad photography has appeared in Finescale Railroader, Rail Magazine, Model Railroader, and in Walthers' annual Big Trains Craft Reference Manuals since 1999.
HOW WE MAKE OUR PRINTS…
The bold, vivid colors and fine detail you see in our prints is a result of film technology, technique, experience, and the art of print-making. Each print begins as a 35mm transparency. We create most of our images on Fuji Velvia slide film, which is noted for its vivid, saturated color palette, high contrast, fine grain, and high resolution. Slides selected for publication are scanned to hard disk using a Nikon film scanner.
Because our images are digitally printed rather than chemically created, we are often asked if we enhance our images. Well, the answer is yes. But every good photograph has been "enhanced" either in the darkroom or in a digital darkroom. Whether we use Curves in Photoshop or a multi-grade printing paper and a number 5 filter in the darkroom to make a high-contrast image doesn't matter--the outcome is the same: an image with more visual impact. Printing a slide or negative in the darkroom or digitally is as much of the artistic process as taking the picture. The art is within the person creating the image; it's not inherent in the medium of capture or output.
For most images, we try to create a print that expresses as much as possible what we saw and felt when the image was created. In almost twenty years of traditional darkroom printing experience with Cibachrome and black & white processes, we employed many techniques to create artistic photographic images. Today, Epson professional media and inks allow us to use the same techniques to create high quality ink jet prints that will last longer than most photographs without the health and environmental hazards of a chemical darkroom.
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