SO I shoot sports... high speed action... type stuff. and I also shoot portraits here and there... I shoot for a living... and I know most all fundamentals,
I know all photo related elements of a shot ISO f stop... etc.
I don't need a lesson on HOW to frame, set up or shoot an image...
I dare not post this on DP...
I need to shoot an image that will be printed to a 4 foot by 8 foot size (let me deal with the proportions issue) viewing distance about 30 feet.
What I would like feed back on is HOW would YOU shoot this? (raw settings etc) I DON'T normally shoot in RAW... like I said I shoot a thousand frames every few days... there's no time to do post in RAW...
I have all the software needed to process raw... just don't use it too much.
My gear list:
(2) D3's
(1) D300
24-70
70-200 etc...etc etc...
Huge Print From a D3
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Re: Huge Print From a D3
No problem at all.
Viewing distance of 30 feet is the equals a size of approximately 2 by 4 feet at 15 feet and 1 by 2 feet at a viewing distance of 7 1/2 feet. Using 8 of your 12 megapixel, given this size, will be sufficient.
Your normal shooting mode of just jPEG will do.
Viewing distance of 30 feet is the equals a size of approximately 2 by 4 feet at 15 feet and 1 by 2 feet at a viewing distance of 7 1/2 feet. Using 8 of your 12 megapixel, given this size, will be sufficient.
Your normal shooting mode of just jPEG will do.
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Huge print techniques...
I was reading about this often and several people mention bicubic upresizing in PS of your image as a solution for huge prints.
There is another program that does better than PS' bicubic upresizing, downloaded it once and tried out for macro upresizing and it worked very well, I'll try to find the link...
About upresizing for big prints, an article that might interest you: http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/articles/f ... _print.htm
There is another program that does better than PS' bicubic upresizing, downloaded it once and tried out for macro upresizing and it worked very well, I'll try to find the link...
About upresizing for big prints, an article that might interest you: http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/articles/f ... _print.htm
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Re: Huge Print From a D3
Judson Leen's comments are spot on......jpeg will be fine at that viewing distance. You need to ask your pro lab what file requirements they have, colour space etc and if they will colour correct. Printing that large they will have a good RIP, make sure they have, so just send them the cropped file. I'd normally send them a colour corrected file and ask them not to correct.....your call. Dont have the sharpness settings to high either...have fun.