Photography News Issue 29

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Photography News Issue 29 absolutephoto.com

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BOB BOOKS Large Square Hardback lay-flat book

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HARTNACK Hidden screw portfolio

PERMAJET Titanium Lustre paper (and SnapShut Folio)

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ITALIA LIBRO 3D Bling Album

HAHNEMÜHLE William Turner paper

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boxes.Justabouteverythingthecompany makes is personalised, with individual branding, so you’re sure of a look that’s fully tailored to your requirements, whether it’s for a presentation, a gift or a special project. The hidden screw- post portfolio is one of its most popular products, featuring a thoroughly neat, premiere feel and coming in a choice of single sober colours that will never jarwith your images. Paper sizes are available in standard A4 and A3 portrait and landscape formats, as well as US sizes like 11x8.5in and 14x11in, then, befitting the bespoke approach, the covers are designed to sit perfectly over them. The outer cover is Buckram or Book Cloth covered 2mm bookboard which is then adhered to fabric covered 1.5mm bookboard adding great strength. The inner the butts up neatly to the folded Chicago screw-post cover. For other sizes, you just need to email. The finishing touch is a logo (which can be your own artwork) or title, foil printed or debossed onto the cover. Plaques and slimline DVD pockets can also be added to the inner cover. A bespoke A3 Portfolio and slipcase starts at £340 (inc VAT), while anoff-the-the shelf A3 Landscape portfolio is just £109 (inc VAT). hartnackandco.com

7 twoweights, 190 and 310gsmand fromA4 toA2 in size (aswell as rolls up to 44in), this genuine mould-made 100% cotton paper is a wonderful stock for your most arty images, limited edition prints, or cards. Compatible with pigmented and dye inkjet systems, the paper’s premium matt inkjet coating guarantees the highest archival standards, and its expressive, textured surface produces images with great density, and perfect colour gamut, graduation and sharpness. Expect to pay around £30 for 25 A4 sheets and £59 for 25 A3 sheets of the 190gsm paper; for the 310gsm paper, it’s £40 for 25 A4 sheets and £19 or £79 or 10 or 25 A3 sheets). Also, expect to be delighted by the results. hahnemuehle.com Folio) from£25.95 Recently scooping Best Pro Paper at The Societies Trade Awards 2015, PermaJet’s Titanium Lustre 280gsm paper is well worth a look – especially if you want prints with the ‘wow’ factor for competition entries. Boasting a beautifully pronounced textured finish, this heavyweight stock uses a silver resin coated base, giving it the print quality of a metallic surface, which goes far beyond Permajet TitaniumLustre paper (and SnapShut

6 There are also presentation boxes to display your books in, and these are constructed from 2mm board covered with black linen and featuring a dual magnet closure and a red ribbon open tab – a stylish combination, and especially handy if you’re gifting the book. You can also choose to publish your book in Bob Books’ online bookshop, so customers can order from there. Alternatively, imagine you’ve created a landscape book – you can sell it to browsing customers, or link to it fromyour own ‘site or blog, and earn from sales. For the environmentally conscious, Bob Books support forest management and use Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified materials to manufacture its products, adhering completely to the FSC standards, from production, processing, service and logistics. bobbooks.co.uk As any home printing enthusiast knows, results can vary enormously depending on your image and print settings, the printer, the inks, and crucially, the paper. Getting the final part of the chain spot on is Hahnemühle’sWilliamTurner fine-artmatt watercolour texture paper. Available in HahnemühleWilliam Turner paper from£19

papers with a pearlescent finish. The paper can reproduce an excellent tonal range and true-to-life colours, and it really comes into its own when printing shots of metallic subjects, like car detailing or reflective, mirrored still-life subjects. It’s also well matched with black & white and HDR shots producing wonderfully fine tones in the highlights and shadows, with finely rendered details. PermaJet’s Titanium Lustre 280gsm is available in 25 sheet packs of A4 at £25.95, A3 (£49.95), A3+ (£69.95) and A2 (£99.95) as well rolls up to 42in (£299.95) and small format 6x4in (£26.95) and 7x5in (£34.96) packs. For storing prints, Permajet’s SnapShut Folio (from£16.95) is also a good idea; available in leather or smooth covers and dizzying array of sizes, as well as two different spine widths to accommodate different numbers of pages, the Folio stores protects and displays prints thanks to its innovative glue-free hinge, so whenever you want more pages, you just open it up with a pull and insert. permajet.com

Providing photo album design, printing and binding services, Italia Libro (Sood Studios) has been providing professional grade services since 1947. There’s an incredible range of albums on offer, including some exciting and very innovative designs that we’ve not seen elsewhere, such as heart-shaped albums, three-dimensional ‘butterfly sheets’ which lift out like a pop-up book, parent albums, which come with a main album and accompanying smaller versions – there are even triangular formats. All the books are able to be highly personalised with a wide range of cover finishes, paper styles, embossing and presentation boxes. Adding to this array of products, is the company’s brand-new 3D Bling album, a product that’s designed to enhance the layout process of your digital pictures, giving them a uniquely tactile feel. TheBlingprocessisadigitalembossing effect that’s applied to selected areas, creating a “sparkling, shiny experience that brings the glamour of glitter in digital printing”. You can check out the full range of products including the 3D Bling albums which will be officially launched at The Photography Show. soodstudio.com

HartnackHidden screw portfolio from£109

Hartnack and Co is a UK company producing beautiful bespoke photo albums, presentation binders, books and