Canvas art. Your help needed....

[haggisuk]

I was dragging my heals following the other half around Next like an obedient dog and grunting with appropriate timing to feign interest in this painful torture.

While in there she says to me that she would like to buy a 'Plastic' canvas picture of some flower for the bedroom wall, I took one look at it and thought what a piece of crap.

The material it was made form was nasty, and the picture was just not doing it for me and there was no way I was going to part with hard earned cash for that junk, so....

would you kind peeps, like to submit your images to this thread for making canvas art from, she is quite keen on flowers, but I'm open to other ideas.

The picture is to go above the bed so width is 5' or so, I quite like the idea of the image being split over three frames, but like I said it's all open to your ideas.

Feel free to ask anything or comment.

 

[Paul-G]

http://www.tescophoto.com/wpp/tesco/buyart_tour.jsp

not actually tried this yet but looks good and is very reasonably priced too

 

[haggisuk]

http://www.tescophoto.com/wpp/tesco/buyart_tour.jsp

not actually tried this yet but looks good and is very reasonably priced too

Yep its that style of thing that I want to do but its the beautiful pin sharp images I don't have.

So if any members would like to submit images so the Panel of judges (Me and her) can select an image we both like I will then get it printed onto canvas to hang in our bedroom.

I will even send £20 to the person who's image we decide on.

 

[mattyh]

I'm rather happy with that one, if it's any good to you

 

[haggisuk]

I'm rather happy with that one, if it's any good to you

Quite nice mate, I knew the quality of images would be so much better, I'm well excited to see what people have to post

 

[sammi]

take a look through the macro forum....reckon you should find one in there between you that you like xxx

 

[haggisuk]

take a look through the macro forum....reckon you should find one in there between you that you like xxx

I'm too lazy, honestly... but more importantly, rather than go looking at pictures and finding something that we may like and find the owner may not want to have us use it, I would prefer to keep it tied to this thread so it's clear that the person submitting the photo is happy for me to have it hanging on our wall.

 

[sammi]

In that case......

 

[haggisuk]

In that case......

Ahh I seen this in your gallery but it been Photochopped into pop art and I did wonder what it would look like in its true form..

 

[sammi]

much sharper than the pop art version..... i prefer the edited version myself xx

 

[haggisuk]

much sharper than the pop art version..... i prefer the edited version myself xx

I prefer the original but I don't dislike your pop art version either.

 

[sammi]

So to get some ideas of what your after.....do you have a particular colour scheme or favourite flower ???? xx

 

[..MD..]

little puppys

md

 

[haggisuk]

I love that image MonkeyDave, its the who farted one eh? You must have patience of a saint to wait for that to happen.

 

[haggisuk]

So to get some ideas of what your after.....do you have a particular colour scheme or favourite flower ???? xx

Mmmm no I don't have a favourite flower, the bedroom is mellow mocha, so brown is the dominant colour i guess.:shrug:

 

[..MD..]

Mmmm no I don't have a favourite flower, the bedroom is mellow mocha, so brown is the dominant colour i guess.:shrug:

also dont forget u could go for a good mono..


md

 

[cowasaki]

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[haggisuk]

also dont forget u could go for a good mono..


md

Yep mono or split tone might go quite well with the neutral colours in the room, but then contrast with a burst of colour can look good too....aagghh

I'm much better with spanners and hammers than this arty stuff.

 

[cowasaki]

MonkeyDave's puppy picture "Fart.jpg" was so good my daughter now has it on her desktop....

Thanks Dave, for the full res picture.

 

[haggisuk]

Gutted, hoping some more pic's would have been added, None from Lady Pitstop??? come on I know there's stacks of talent in this forum, please add some more....

Thanks

 

[Dogfish_magnet]

Here's some of mine....

 

[Kerioak]

I know these have the Fotolia logo all over them but it saves me hunting for them amongst my back up disks, resizing and uploading them to somewhere

I have this one of Birling Gap (Beachy Head) as a large canvas and was really pleased with it

 

[haggisuk]

Some beautiful shots there folks, keep em coming.

 

[Byker28i]

I have this one in my hallway

 

[haggisuk]

I have this one in my hallway

Is this printed onto canvas?, I would be interested to see how it looks on canvas to see how well images print too canvas.

 

[haggisuk]

[S2]Shameless Bump[/S2]

 

[wilmorh]

prob my best to date, might go with the colour theme?

flower wise, i'm not much good, sorry

 

[haggisuk]

prob my best to date, might go with the colour theme?

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Beach_walker.jpg

flower wise, i'm not much good, sorry

Thanks for the photo, its really nice, might be too close to the wall colour though.

Looks nice and peaceful

 

[Lady Pitstop]

A few from me

Not sure how big the bigger edited versions will successfully 'blow up' to though!??

 

[Byker28i]

Is this printed onto canvas?, I would be interested to see how it looks on canvas to see how well images print too canvas.

I have this on a 110cm x 47cm canvas. It looks great and you get to spot there are two people in the distance right by the waterline that I hadn't noticed

 

[Byker28i]

prob my best to date, might go with the colour theme?

flower wise, i'm not much good, sorry

I really like that

 

[Gandhi]

a 5' or 60" wide canvas is going to be VERY demanding on image quality.

Out of my d200 that's going to be 64 ppi at output resolution.
I'm not entirely sure of the demands of canvas printing Vs detail but I would imagine you would need at least 180 dpi (around 11000 pixels wide) or an image that contains little in the way of very fine detail (not landscapes!)

I'm willing to stand corrected on this but I think an amount of up-rezzing may be required!


anyone shooting 5x4 film?

 

[kmlc]

Not of flowers as such, but reminds me of an oil painting

Sorry, not very good at flowers.
But here is my 2 pence worth anyways

 

[petebarnes]

I haven't done any flower shots in ages, these are some from last year

 

[haggisuk]

a 5' or 60" wide canvas is going to be VERY demanding on image quality.

Out of my d200 that's going to be 64 ppi at output resolution.
I'm not entirely sure of the demands of canvas printing Vs detail but I would imagine you would need at least 180 dpi (around 11000 pixels wide) or an image that contains little in the way of very fine detail (not landscapes!)

I'm willing to stand corrected on this but I think an amount of up-rezzing may be required!


anyone shooting 5x4 film?

Good point, I never even considered that.

I'm guessing I shall be struggling if I try to get one large canvas.

Might be better off with either splitting an image across three canvas's or three seperate images of something similar.

Thanks for all your pictures so far, they are really good.

 

[DinoS]

How long until you are going to decide. Is therea set date to get the photos in for.

 

[haggisuk]

How long until you are going to decide. Is therea set date to get the photos in for.

I think I shall let it run till next weekend to allow people time to dig out their best shots.

What's best in your opinion I can change it if people feel differently?

The bedroom isn't going anywhere so it can wait if you would like longer.

 

[wilmorh]

I really like that

Thank you!

 

[Didgi Widgi]

hiya this company is worth looking into..the prices are reasonable and the quality is good and a fast turnaround too......http://www.canvasartstudio.co.uk/

 

[DinoS]

I think I shall let it run till next weekend to allow people time to dig out their best shots.

What's best in your opinion I can change it if people feel differently?

The bedroom isn't going anywhere so it can wait if you would like longer.

Hi think that is fair, gives people enough time.

Thanks

Mark