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THE TECHNICALITIES

What are some of the technical considerations of digital photography?

The key to a good enlargement is a well focused shot. A blurry picture can't be made sharp. In Photoshop it is possible to see how clear your final enlargement can be printed. It is a good idea before you order a print to look at the full size view in Photoshop on your monitor to see if you will be satisfied with the clarity of the final print.

Long before a photo will pixilate on enlargement, it will be blurry. We will look at your photo before we print it and contact you if we feel that your image will be blurry or pixilated. We will advise you of a better size that will give you the maximum reproduction quality and size.

Although it can be difficult to carry a tripod to every location to take a photo, they are essential to taking a sharp photo. Even a photo that is perfectly in focus can be blurry if there was camera motion when the shutter was released.

SO, HOW BIG CAN WE MAKE IT?

Most digital pictures can be enlarged to 16"x20" without any loss in sharpness.

quarter horse in the Yellowstone back country
Lori and quarter horse ‘sir’ rusty in the Yellowstone back country photo taken by husband Dave.

 

We turned this photograph into a 16"x20" canvas print mounted on stretcher bars. This photo was a 773kb jpg digital image taken with a Coolpix 4300 camera at the normal memory setting.

 

bull moose in The Grand Teton's

This is the original photo. This photo was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera using 35mm 100 Velvia slide film. We scanned the slide and cropped it as shown in the adjacent photo.

bull moose in The Grand Teton's is cropped

This is the final 30"x40" moose picture. This photo was cropped so that the moose would not be distorted when it was printed.

WHY DOES VARNISHING MATTER?

Below is a comparison of an unvarnished and varnished print on canvas.

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I poured a cup of water onto the varnished print and unvarnished print, then wiped up the water with a soft rag.

The ink came up on the non-varnished print.

The varnished print did not loose any ink.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY LANGUAGE RESOURCE

The best site we have found for a digital photography dictionary is: PhotoNotes.org

TECHNICAL NOTES ON COLOR

Is the 'red' in the center of these squares the same color? Why does this 'red' look different?

a color study of red

To find out why the ‘red’ looks different see from the Art Institute of Chicago, click here    SmarTECH Art Reproductions - Print Your Horse Photo on Canvas.

The best discussion on color we have found is this paper by Glenn Elert

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