"Excellent photography belongs on paper"

Do you struggle to make a quality print? Have you always wondered what colour profiles are and what to do with them? Do your images always come out dark and lifeless? Do you find Lightroom's Print Module difficult to understand? Then this Lightroom Fine Art Printing session will answer all those questions and more!

Printing a high-quality, fine-art print from one of your own images has to be the ultimate pleasure and satisfaction for any photographer. However, the dark-art of high-quality printing isn't so easy to achieve without the right knowledge and understanding.

First time, every time!

Using Adobe Lightroom Classic's Develop and Print module, Mark will help de-mystify the print process and take you through his personal workflow - including actual prints for you to take home (if you choose to visit Mark). Learn how to print like a pro - 'First time, every time!' - saving you time, ink and paper!

An outline itinerary

If you choose to visit Mark at his home in North Yorkshire, you will be invited to bring along a small number of 'Raw' images ready for editing using Lightroom Classic software on Mark's computer. After discussing and editing your images Mark will then demonstrate how to proof your images ready for final output from a Canon large-format pigment-based inkjet printer using Lightroom's Print module. If you are travelling from further afield, Mark can recommend accommodation near his home. Better still, why not consider spending an extra day or two discovering beautiful North Yorkshire including the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Yorkshire Coast?

Online tuition

If you choose online tuition Mark will demonstrate techniques within Lightroom remotely on your own computer and discuss all the aforementioned topics via video-link - it really is like Mark is sat next to you. Cheaper for you and more environmentally friendly!

Printer set-up Service

If you're new to printing and have just purchased a printer (or planning to), Mark can help you to set it up remotely, too. Mark has helped many people to do this and it can avoid many hours of headaches and frustration. Get in touch to ask about your specific requirements.

Further Information

Depending on the length of each session you book, Mark can help you with the following topics and more...

• Help you set up your printer remotely if necessary
• The basics and theory of printing
• Considerations when choosing a printer
• The importance of Image formats, sizing and resolution
• Colour management
• Colour profiles (what they are, what they do and why they are necessary)
• Why your images might not have printed as you expected them to
• How to soft-proof your images
• How to master Lightroom’s Print Module
• How to present your images (adding borders, signatures etc…)
• Creating Contact Sheets (more than one image per sheet)
• Creating print presets

Payment must be made in full when booking a single day workshop (you will be sent an invoice). For residential workshops, a deposit of £500 is required (unless otherwise stated) and the balance is payable 12 weeks before the course commences.

The balance of the cost of the workshop will be due 12 weeks before the workshop starts. If a booking is made less than 12 weeks prior to the beginning of the workshop, the full cost is payable at the time of booking.

If you, the client, cancel a booking any money you have paid (including the deposit) is non-refundable unless I can find a replacement to take your place after all other places have been filled. If a replacement is found an admin fee of £100 will be deducted from the refund. If I cancel a booking any payment received will be refunded in full. Please ensure that you have adequate travel insurance in place. It is a term of the contract between us that you will obtain the appropriate travel insurance cover before you set out on the workshop. The insurance must cover the loss, expenses and damages arising from, including but not limited to, the cancellation of the workshop (whether in whole or in part), personal accident and injury, medical and repatriation costs, loss of baggage and personal money and belongings, flight cancellations and delays as well as your inability to arrive at the workshop destination due to fuel shortages and other such disruptions out of my control.

Except where otherwise expressly stated in these booking conditions, I regret I cannot accept liability or pay any compensation where the performance or prompt performance of my obligations under my contract with you is prevented or affected by or you otherwise suffer any damage, loss or expense of any nature as a result of “force majeure”. In these booking conditions, “force majeure” means any event which I or the supplier of the service(s) in question could not, even with all due care, foresee or avoid. Such events may include, (whether actual or threatened), war, riot, civil strife, terrorist activity, industrial dispute, natural or nuclear disaster, adverse weather conditions, fire, epidemics/pandemics, fuel shortages and all similar events outside my control.

Please note, I cannot accept any liability for any damage, loss, expense or other sum(s) of any description (1) which on the basis of the information given to me by you concerning your booking prior to me accepting it, I could not have foreseen you would suffer or incur if I breached the contract with you or (2) which did not result from any breach of contract or other fault by myself where I am responsible for them, my suppliers. Additionally, I cannot accept liability for any business losses.

You will be allocated either a single room or a double/twin room for single occupancy. There is no single occupancy surcharge. Where double or twin rooms are available, they will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis at the time of check-in.

Mark Banks Photography reserves the right to cancel any workshop. In the event of any cancellation, I will offer either a total refund or a place on an alternative workshop. If the alternative workshop is cheaper, I will refund the difference, and if it is more expensive, you will be required to pay the balance.

All applicants participate at their own risk and Mark Banks Photography accepts no responsibility for injury or damage done to their persons or property. It is recommended that applicants hold their own personal Public Liability Insurance.

The type of workshops I offer require flexibility and must allow for alternatives. For this reason, the outline itinerary and workshop description must be taken as an indication of what may take place on the workshop, and not as a contractual obligation on the part of Mark Banks Photography.

I do not accept responsibility or liability for death, bodily injury or illness caused to you during the workshop, unless arising from the negligent act and/or omission on my part or on the part of any of my employees (providing they were at the time acting within the course of their employment). Please note that any itinerary noted on the workshop description is subject to change due to weather conditions and/or the capability of participants.

By booking a workshop with Mark Banks Photography you are agreeing to accept all of the above conditions.