James Newman
Member
First of all, hello OPF'ers. I am alive and well in the Arizona desert. It has been quite awhile since I last posted anything but I have been around from time to time lurking and looking. Now I am looking for a little advice and information on where and how to get some large prints made for a project I am working on.
I have a training room that has two or three garage doors in it. They are smaller than an actual garage door on a house but have normal garage door openers on them that operate as usual. Now, when the doors are opened, all you see are the bland, ugly walls behind the doors. I am taking photos with my Nikon D3, from inside various, real garages, getting the view that you see when looking outside after the door opens. I need prints made that will measure 46" x 83" so they fit the space behind the doors so that when the door is opened, it looks like you are looking outside. Simple right? Not for me. I have no idea where to even begin. I know these dimensions are probably not ideal for print purposes but I need it as close to these as I can get just so it looks proper.
My D3 is only 12 megapixels but after reading the posting here from Nicolas Claris, I am pretty confident my camera could do a pretty reasonable job with a print that size. I just don't know where to look, how to properly size things, or even the best way to prepare my file for a print like that. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. And once again, hello everybody. I will try and not stay away so long next time. I see a lot of new faces around that's for sure.
James
I have a training room that has two or three garage doors in it. They are smaller than an actual garage door on a house but have normal garage door openers on them that operate as usual. Now, when the doors are opened, all you see are the bland, ugly walls behind the doors. I am taking photos with my Nikon D3, from inside various, real garages, getting the view that you see when looking outside after the door opens. I need prints made that will measure 46" x 83" so they fit the space behind the doors so that when the door is opened, it looks like you are looking outside. Simple right? Not for me. I have no idea where to even begin. I know these dimensions are probably not ideal for print purposes but I need it as close to these as I can get just so it looks proper.
My D3 is only 12 megapixels but after reading the posting here from Nicolas Claris, I am pretty confident my camera could do a pretty reasonable job with a print that size. I just don't know where to look, how to properly size things, or even the best way to prepare my file for a print like that. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. And once again, hello everybody. I will try and not stay away so long next time. I see a lot of new faces around that's for sure.
James