What photo paper do professional photographers use?

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Matt

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What is the best paper out there ? Any help is greatly appreciated ! Thanks =)
to be direct -- I'd rather have a 3rd party print some of my wedding pictures, instead of the photographer Ive hired (who charges more)... Which photo paper should I look for (that an online service provides) that would be the absolute best ? I only need a few prints, and I want them to come out amazing ...
 
That's like asking what your favorite spice is, you may have a favorite but you wouldn't only use that one no matter how long you've been eating.

For inkjet there are a gazillion papers, some with textures, different weights, different white's a lot of stuff. For darkroom our choices are somewhat more limited but only because of how people think. The truth is there is no limit at all. You can buy the emulsion in a liquid form and paint it on anything. I've seen portraits on rocks for example. or portraits on toast, images on beer mugs and it truly never ends.

Anyway like the person above me, I like Ilford paper inkjet and darkroom

For inkjet gallerie pearl

Darkroom it's muticontrast IV RC and fibre
 
That's like asking what your favorite spice is, you may have a favorite but you wouldn't only use that one no matter how long you've been eating.

For inkjet there are a gazillion papers, some with textures, different weights, different white's a lot of stuff. For darkroom our choices are somewhat more limited but only because of how people think. The truth is there is no limit at all. You can buy the emulsion in a liquid form and paint it on anything. I've seen portraits on rocks for example. or portraits on toast, images on beer mugs and it truly never ends.

Anyway like the person above me, I like Ilford paper inkjet and darkroom

For inkjet gallerie pearl

Darkroom it's muticontrast IV RC and fibre
 
I use 100% cotton paper coated in Iron and/or Platinum salts.

My favorite silver gelatin paper is Bromide paper. http://www.freestylephoto.biz/994482-Kentmere-Bromide-FB-Glossy-Grade-4-8x10-25?cat_id=505


I am a 20 year Fine Art Landscape photographer.

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There is no best...

If you think you can achieve a level of professionalism by - copying what others have done, or use... your partly right..

In a wet darkroom there are dozens and dozens of papers, grades, surface textures, weight and on and on and THEN many ways to process these papers.

You also have to take in consideration the film and it's properties and how IT was exposed, and then exposed on the paper. There is also the light source of the enlarger, condenser vr diffusion, and the physical make up of the enlarger it's self. Just how DOES the light get through the negative and down on the paper...? Enlarger filters..? Hmmmmm, gelatin or dichoric glass..?

These things and a lot more make up a final print worthy of being called - pro work... If you don't understand the complete process, from picking your film to picking your paper to put that image on and then the kind of light to use in enlarging, you don't have a chance..

By going out and buying "paper" you just hit the tip of the iceberg. And... if your talking ink jets your in another world again with many variables.

A print made on one Brand X printer may not look so good on printer Brand Y printer when using the same paper. The inks are different and react differently with different papers. Yes, printers can be fine tuned in many ways to accept almost anyones paper, but some work better out of the box than others with different brands.

Bob - Tucson
 
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