GETTING PRINTS DONE - ADVICE NEEDED PLEASE!

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Hi everyone,

On Sunday I took some photographs of a mates band during a live gig. I have got 3 or 4 shots which I intend to email the band and also print hard copy so they have something tangible to look at.

All the shots are black and white and they are very dark which I liked. I had to shoot at 800 ISO for most of them with my Canon 450d. When it comes to getting them printed I wanted some help on the following.

1) What size would be best to print at considering the ISO? I wanted A4 ideally but i don't know if they will really break up at this size, would this be ok or would it be advisable to print smaller and if so what size?

2) I wanted to print on a glossy photo paper, can anyone recommend a good one fo dark black and white shots?

3) When I resize the image in photoshop what size should I resize it to in order to get decent resolution? is there anything I can do to boost resolution?

4) I will have to pay to get the images printed, will they look pretty much as they do on screen as I have adjusted the levels/contrast etc in photoshop and I don't want to spend money getting them printed only to realise they are a lot lighter/darker when I get the prints than they are on screen.

I would really appreciate everyone's thoughts on this and I am very grateful for any advice that you guys can offer up.

Thanks

Dan
 
ISO 800 should be fine at A4.

http://www.aldiphotos.co.uk/ Are surprisingly good. In my opinion they are one of the best. They use excellent glossy paper and my images come back exactly as they look on my screen.

I recently had a picture of Corfe castle printed by a "Pro printers" and it didn't look anywhere near as good as the Aldi one, which was a fraction of the cost.
 
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DSCL.. good quality, excellent price.

If your screen is not calibrated then all bets are off as to whether the print will match your screen or not (no matter where you send the prints). A good printer takes care to print true (the Pro option from DSCL), but if the original you submit is off because your monitor is off there's nothing the printer can do (except make a professional guess, the Standard or Autocorrect option)..
 
Alastair said:
If your screen is not calibrated then all bets are off as to whether the print will match your screen or not (no matter where you send the prints). .
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I agree,mine is not calibrated and the first couple of sets I sent to photobox ,when they came back where glaringly over saturated,now I cut the colour down so it looks to weak and they come back OK.
 
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