Inside Our Studios
Large format camera, color-controlled lighting, and tethered capture — every artwork is photographed with precision and care.
We capture your paintings, drawings, and fine art with 100–400 megapixel large format cameras and color-temperature-controlled lighting. Plus genuine darkroom silver prints and platinum-palladium prints from analog or digital files.
Inside Our Studios
Large format camera, color-controlled lighting, and tethered capture — every artwork is photographed with precision and care.
Our Core Service
Whether you're an artist preparing for a juried show, a gallery creating reproductions, or a museum archiving a collection — we capture your artwork with uncompromising fidelity. Every brushstroke, every texture, every color — exactly as the artist intended.
100–400 megapixel captures producing 125MB–2GB TIFF files, suitable for any reproduction size.
Custom-built lighting equipment ensures perfect color fidelity across every capture.
An 8×10 costs the same as a 40×60. We don't charge more for larger work.
Image cropping and color correction included. Files delivered via transfer service or thumb drive.
Includes capture, cropping & color correction. No upcharge for size.
Costa Mesa, California
Professional fine art studios purpose-built for large-format image capture, digital and darkroom printing, and platinum/palladium work.
A welcoming space to discuss your project, view sample prints, and see the work in person before you commit.
Purpose-built for large-format artwork reproduction with 100–400MP cameras and calibrated lighting.
Equipped with professional enlargers, UV exposure unit and a complete wet processing area for silver gelatin and platinum/palladium printing.
We work by appointment to give every client dedicated time and focused attention on their project.
The Darkroom
Our fully equipped darkroom produces traditional silver gelatin prints with a depth and luminosity that no inkjet or digital process can replicate. From your analog negatives or a digital file, we create handcrafted prints that are as permanent as the art they represent.
Silver gelatin prints produce the richest blacks and most delicate highlights possible — a tonal range no printer can match.
We work from original analog negatives, transparencies, or high-quality digital files — whatever your starting point.
Properly processed silver prints last well over a century. Each print is made to museum archival standards for longevity.
Rare & Archival
Platinum/palladium printing is one of the most expressive photographic processes ever devised — and one of the most permanent. Prints are hand-coated on fine art paper, contact-printed under UV light, and developed by hand. The result is a print with extraordinary tonal depth, velvety shadows, and luminous highlights that will last for centuries.
We create platinum/palladium prints from analog negatives, large-format transparencies, or digitally output negatives — making this rare process accessible to any photographer or artist.
Each sheet is brushed by hand with liquid platinum and palladium salts before exposure.
The negative lies directly on the paper — producing prints with infinitely fine grain and true photographic detail.
Platinum and palladium are among the most stable metals known — these prints genuinely last 500+ years.
Platinum/palladium fine art print — hand-coated and contact-printed in our studio
Behind the Print
Each platinum/palladium print is made entirely by hand — a centuries-old process renowned for its extraordinary tonal depth and permanence. Here's how it comes to life.
Step 1
The precious metal emulsion is hand-brushed onto fine art paper, an exacting step that determines the print's final tonal character.
Step 2
A large-format negative — analog or digitally output — is carefully prepared for contact printing, the technique that gives platinum prints their unmatched resolution.
Step 3
The coated paper is exposed to UV light, then gently developed in a chemical bath — a quiet, deliberate transformation from latent image to visible print.
Step 4
The result is a one-of-a-kind object — with luminous midtones, velvety shadows, and deckled edges that no digital process can replicate. Archival for centuries.
Preserve Your Legacy
Old photographs fade, tear, and deteriorate over time — but the memories they hold are irreplaceable. We carefully restore damaged, faded, or deteriorated photographs to their original beauty, preserving family history for generations to come.
Before
After
1940s school class photograph — creases, tears, and discoloration fully removed
Before
After
Early 1900s family portrait — staining, edge damage, and discoloration fully restored
Physical damage from folding, tearing, or improper storage — fully repaired and seamlessly blended.
Yellowing, staining, and tonal degradation from age and light exposure — carefully corrected to restore original tonality.
Lost corners, water damage, mold, and scratches — rebuilt using surrounding image data for a natural, convincing result.
Simple Process
Bring your artwork to our Costa Mesa studio — any medium, any size.
Large format cameras and controlled lighting capture every detail.
Professional cropping, color correction, and optimization — included.
High-resolution TIFF files ready for reproduction, delivered digitally.
Our Photography
Also Available
Artwork up to 16"×18" scanned at up to 1600 dpi. Includes color correction.
$50Negatives and transparencies up to 8"×10" at 6400 dpi. Maximum file sizes, no upcharge.
$50From 5"×7" to 44" wide and up to 40 feet. Photo papers, canvas, or fine art watercolor.
From $20Professional color correction, cropping, manipulation, and pre-press preparation.
$50/imageMounting, spray-protection, and gel-texture finishing for prints and reproductions.
By RequestNeed a non-standard size? We accommodate any dimension — just let us know.
By RequestTransparent Pricing
Gloss, luster, metallic or matte papers
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 5"×7" to 8"×10" | $24 |
| 11"×14" | $30 |
| 12"×16" to 16"×20" | $40 |
| 20"×24" | $60 |
| 24"×30" | $75 |
| 24"×36" | $100 |
| 30"×40" | $150 |
| 40"×50" | $200 |
| 40"×60" | $250 |
Canvas or fine art watercolor paper
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 5"×7" to 8"×10" | $20 |
| 11"×14" | $30 |
| 12"×16" to 16"×20" | $40 |
| 20"×24" | $60 |
| 24"×30" | $75 |
| 24"×36" | $100 |
| 30"×40" | $150 |
| 40"×50" | $200 |
| 40"×60" | $250 |
Since 1976
To create an environment that inspires, teaches, supports, and promotes the photographic arts. Through formal training and collaboration with some of the finest photographers in the world, we've honed our craft over nearly five decades.
Photography as an art form is meaningful and has its place in the realm of fine art. We strive to make each image a statement of vision — whether capturing original art for reproduction or creating our own photographic works.
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