Something I have been meaning to do for a while is to get a rogues gallery in my office of people that I don’t really see enough, so after collecting some prints (at the same time as a processed roll of Velvia!) from the lab, some frames from Ikea and a few hours cutting/sticking I have the following 4 pictures on my office wall of some people who are important to me.
Simon:
Ali & Webb:
Partho:
And of course, Jen:
6 of my images are featured in an exhibition by members of the Dunchurch Photographic Society at Floor One Gallery at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition is running until the 25th October and I will be there for the afternoon on the 17th October if you want to drop by.
Yesterday I made a large format print of one of my favourite landscape photos from 2008, this view across Derwent Water taken in December.
The detail in the full size print is incredible, it will be hung in a 70×50 frame and has been mounted with proportions similar to the mock up above (when it is hanging I will post a photo of the real thing).
To get to the required file size at 360 dpi for the printer we needed to create extra pixels, Lightroom 2.2 seemed to do this very well and quickly, however for the file we printed Genuine Fractals was used, this is a plug-in for Photoshop and is the industry standard for enlarging images. It had more controls than Lightroom (an took much longer to generate the file), but to my eyes the resulting 192Mb tiff files looked the same.