Do any of you turn your pictures in to posters

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I have turned 3 pictures I have taken in to posters . Just wonering if any one else do the same .
 
Fairly often print to A3 but rarely go bigger.
 
well- looking at your shot, and trying to work out the print size by the joins in the wallpaper, I'd put that at around an A2 print. I've certainly had quite a few pictures at that size or over - at the moment I'm sitting in my office with a canvas print of this in front of me...

Still Life with Wine and Walnuts by The Big Yin, on Flickr

think it's around 48" across... no pictures of it on the wall, my office is far too much of a mess for that.

I've also sold a few pictures which have been turned into "murals" - i.e. printed on "wallpaper" and used to cover "feature walls"... Usually Landscapes/Sculpture stuff I'm sure some of the regulars on here would be pleased to hear (as some of my pictures do have a bit of a dark side to them...)

Personally I think we should encourage people to print their work far more - as I sit in my Office at the moment, I have something like 33 pictures on the wall - 25 of 'em are framed 10x8's , a couple of "big ones", 4 panoramas and the rest are 16x10's... God only knows how many I'd have if I was shooting on a regular basis at the moment - probably only 5-6 more, as I'm running out of wall-space...
 
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I quite often get A2 sized canvas prints done of my work, i think we have about half a dozen at any one time hanging around the house, i much prefer the look of a canvas print hanging on the wall that a bare poster, or even a framed print to be fair, but that's just me ;)
 
Must admit, for general photo's I actually prefer framed prints, but in the case of the "faux old-master" above, somehow canvas seemed appropriate...
 
TheBigYin said:
well- looking at your shot, and trying to work out the print size by the joins in the wallpaper, I'd put that at around an A2 print. I've certainly had quite a few pictures at that size or over - at the moment I'm sitting in my office with a canvas print of this in front of me...

Still Life with Wine and Walnuts by The Big Yin, on Flickr

think it's around 48" across... no pictures of it on the wall, my office is far too much of a mess for that.

I've also sold a few pictures which have been turned into "murals" - i.e. printed on "wallpaper" and used to cover "feature walls"... Usually Landscapes/Sculpture stuff I'm sure some of the regulars on here would be pleased to hear (as some of my pictures do have a bit of a dark side to them...)

Personally I think we should encourage people to print their work far more - as I sit in my Office at the moment, I have something like 33 pictures on the wall - 25 of 'em are framed 10x8's , a couple of "big ones", 4 panoramas and the rest are 16x10's... God only knows how many I'd have if I was shooting on a regular basis at the moment - probably only 5-6 more, as I'm running out of wall-space...
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Was thinking of your masters series only last night while I was look at some of the fine art papers in my sample packs :lol: thinking the perfect papers for them :D

I have a few of mine on the walls but lots more will go up from now on, I also buy others work from time to time where I find work I really love but also find inspiring...anything I buy printed of my own work is 20 inch or over I've 2 x 20 inch canvas', 1 x 30 inch canvas, 2 x 20x15 metallic prints and a 24 inch acrylic in the kitchen

My new printer will be put to a lot of use now and in the future, it's my intention to buy a few frames that I can change the images in as I choose, with an archival standard box to store naked prints in when not in frame, but certain prints will also go off from time to time to be framed in bespoke frames designed to be perfect for the work as I've a friend to makes the most fantastic frames :thumbs:
 
I regularly print A3, but recently had an image printed at A2, more to see what the quality was like than anything else (answer - not bad at all considering it was from a 'mere' 12mp camera).

I wouldn't pin anything to the wall as a poster though - mounts and frames are the way forward, but they aren't cheap! All my frames are tied up ready for my next exhibition, but I'm going to start putting them up round the house when I'm not exhibiting. If nothing else, it'll make storing the damn things easier......
 
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I regularly print A3, but recently had an image printed at A2, more to see what the quality was like than anything else (answer - not bad at all considering it was from a 'mere' 12mp camera).

I wouldn't pin anything to the wall as a poster though - mounts and frames are the way forward, but they aren't cheap! All my frames are tied up ready for my next exhibition, but I'm going to start putting them up round the house when I'm not exhibiting. If nothing else, it'll make storing the damn things easier......
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I am getting the picture framed so it look better I do not really like to pin it to the wall .
 
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I do the odd large print .... it keeps the beast in good condition if you puts some ink through it at least once a month or so.

I do not have anything of my own on the wall just one CGI by someone else in fact but fairly regularilly inflict 24" 36"and 40" prints on people.

A3+ tends to be the smallest I print I'll live with a 12MP image at that size but not really be happy with it 24MP is fine but I personally would not print them larger, the silly size prints are all from drum scanned 10"x8" they could easilly be printed bigger but even seconhand 60" printers are seriously expensive where as the beast in fact cost me less than a secondhand D600.

To me viewing distance is a cop out from the printing / advertising industry if it doesn't have 300dpi you can't "lose yourself" in a print ...other peoples mileage may vary.

I'll go with canvas suiting certain subjects and because of the inherent texture you can get away with more 12MP at 24" wide can work on canvas.

I sometimes do large prints for others the most painfull being a mobile phone shot the file I was given was 1000 odd pixel widest dimention and at 72dpi it nearly made me cry at A3 at 24" it looked horrible.

Yes I know its a mess recent reshuffe with the printer one of the scanners.
 
I've printed off a few so far and framed them for the house. I buy a cheap framed print from secondhand shops/ homesense that sort of place and reclaim the frame so to speak [emoji16]...... Wish I had a printer like abbandon though - looks huuuuuuge!

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44" hp Z3100

The trick is find an auction with a high starting price (625) and collection only, I got it for the reserve of 1000 less than 180m3 of paper through it (first maintance kit interval is 100 000). While thats not cheap the better A3+ plus machines are 500+ new and cost way more to run. The larger machines have far bigger cartridges ink being the real cost, this takes 130ml worst case costing me 50 (mostly I get out of date ones for a lot less) the A3+ printer I have takes 27ml cartridges that are about 30 each. A 36" wide print costs me about 12-15 to do on a decent paper like photospeed 270 Lustre.

Granted not every one is deranged enough to have a 44" monster but the 24" ones give similar economy and often go for 600 or so.
 
Once every 6 months I do a photoshoot of our kids, then get them printed 20"x16" (tesco photo) for our living room :-)
 
I've printed on A3+ for critique at my camera club and if its a zoo animal my girls get them as poster, and my boy's got a tank.

I took some photos of the playgroup float throughout the carnival and made them an A3+ collage for them to put on their wall.
 
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