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Best Paper Choice for Landscape Photos

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Best Paper Choice for Landscape Photos - 06-16-2008, 04:55 PM


What paper choice do you feel is best for landscape photos? Matte, Glossy, Lustre, or even the metallic paper that Mpix offers. Have a couple of photos from our trip to Big Bend that I want to have printed, mounted and framed to hang in my office. Just was not real confident on the paper type.
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06-16-2008, 05:07 PM


That's a matter of personal taste. Only you can determine that.

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06-16-2008, 05:09 PM


The only one I can comment on is mettalic.

I can't see landscapes on metallic, however, there is always an exception. I know my train pics, especially some of the highly edited ones, look fabulous in metallic but they have very little "nature" in them.

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06-16-2008, 06:30 PM


As John said it's very subjective.

I tried a color landscape on metallic, thought it looked awful.

For inkjet printing I usually like matte paper unless an image really need more dmax than matte paper can deliver in which case I'll use a semi-gloss paper.

But the term 'matte' means something very different for inkjet papers than it does for photo-lab prints. Lab prints that are called 'matte' are really more like semi-gloss. If you're going to get lab prints that would by choice as the really glossy stuff is more suited to snapshots IMHO.

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