What up nerds welcome back Nate in the wild here. It is so good to see you all again I'm sorry. I haven't made a video in a while. This has been the busiest summer of my life But that is a very nice chain from last summer where I basically lowns drowned in my underwear eating Cheetos for six months straight It's been good to get back out anyhow on this channel We've talked about cameras and photo techniques quite a few times actually and Hopefully by now you've gone out on a couple hikes You've got a beautiful photo or two in your catalog and you're ready to start printing I get a ton of questions about printing because it is extremely overwhelming and I want to talk through some of those options right here to help everyone get off on the right foot Now there's a lot of different printing surfaces from regular photo paper to museum archival paper Which is its own category itself canvas acrylic metal very overwhelming. We're just gonna focus on metal prints today By far my favorite surface is metal No exaggeration every single print in my house is on metal It is the only surface I print on because I genuinely love it that much The cool thing is All five of these prints in front of me are printed on metal but with different surface finishes This is from bay photo. You might be familiar with them They actually sell a metal sample pack where you can get five photos printed with all different finishes So you can see which one looks best in whatever room They have given me a 50% off discount code that I am able to share with you That's in the description below So if you have a photo that you're thinking about printing and you're a little nervous about spending of $400 on a big beautiful print because you don't know how it'll look This is an awesome way to go click that link get half off your order This is very affordable and it's a great way to find out that you might have made a huge mistake or Confirm your suspicions that you were on the right track. So starting off we got the high gloss as you can see It is vibrant. It's crisp. It's beautiful But it is very glossy as the name would tell you which means that with any light source Let me point it towards my light look at that. It just basically like disappears, right? Lot of reflection. It's my favorite surface in terms of the vividness of the colors and the crispness of the details But lots of reflections if you're putting this on a wall opposite a window might not be your best choice Moving from there down mid gloss same thing beautiful colors super sharp crisp A little less reflection here. I'll point it at the light there. Oh, yes So you can see let's compare those side by side now So you can see both of them pointed at my light look at that you can see that one's a little less Reflected than the other it's sort of softens it up a little bit But the the colors on them are are both beautiful again. This is the high gloss. This is the mid gloss Moving from there satin so this looks a little bit more like a Like a matte print not quite matte. It's not that low It's got a little bit more shine to that. This is probably my preferred surface for a lot of printing It is beautiful. You can see that compared to the high gloss the photo looks Pretty much the same now my light is over here So like this one probably looks a little bit darker just because it's further away from the light source Let me hold them up over each other so you can see they print looking about the same But look at that when I turn it towards the light source The high gloss basically disappears and the satin still retains a lot of its Details and color pretty dang cool. That's an awesome option to have Now the other two down here are kind of a new surface well new to me I think bay photos probably been printing like this for a long time But I actually have very little experience with it. It's called sheer so this is the sheer gloss And it's it's pretty dang cool. I think so these top three the first three that I showed you They have their bare aluminum and then they put a white coating on there to give it You know basically the same printing surface as you'd get with like paper and then they print your image on top of that So it looks exactly like a true life representation of how you would expect a photo print to look the sheer print is Directly on Barra aluminum so the darks look kind of shimmery and metallic and the sky like the highlights here are silvery and crisp. It's really really cool You can see that it has just this really nice depth it almost looks holographic I think certain images will probably play better on this than others I wouldn't print a portrait maybe on sheer because I think the silveryness might look weird on skin tones But conversely the northern lights on sheer is Beautiful any astrophoto it gives us this incredible deep tone to the stars like almost three-dimensional Again, this is the high gloss on the sheer you can see what I pointed at the light there We get some weird shimmers there This is the sheer satin so same thing as before This is printed directly on the bare aluminum but with a satin finish so that when it goes towards a light source You retain all of that detail But again, you know side by side to the casual observer They're gonna look pretty much the same as long as they're not reflecting light So that's pretty cool. I mean you'll see a big difference in the amount of gloss that they have but not Much beyond that. So there you have it. There are your five aluminum printing surfaces Basically if you don't have a ton of windows in your room You kind of just need to choose if you want sheer or not sheer and then how much gloss you want on there If you do have windows then you might need to start thinking about a mid gloss or a satin Honestly, Bay photo will take care of you and again They have a 50% off coupon that they gave me I will share it in the description below Please click on that order your metal sample pack See what you like most because we all know that's a big investment when you want to start printing your own work for your house It's super exciting. You want to make sure that you can get it right As always I'm Nate and wild. Thank you so much. Please drop any other printing questions you have in the comments below I will respond to all of them. Thank you so much. I'll see you later You