96037's Print thread **Photo Heavy Thread**

Here are a few I am still proofing and one that I think is ready. I have posted it in my etsy shop. I suppose I am looking for feedback and whatnot, like if one is too bright, or should be in/out further etc. 75% of my photos can be printed as 8 X 10 but some can only go as high as 5 X 7. The hard part is not making a ton of proofs and running the ink cartridges down..

so first, the one that is ready to go and on etsy as an 8 x 10, and also already cropped for 5 x 7 and 4 X 6. I can also give a $3 on 4X6 and 5X7 and $6 discount on 8 X10 if no matte is wanted.

I really have to get around to watermarking these..

this one is by laundry2011, it is still in debate, but after two hours I managed to remove the date stamp, you can tell it was ever even there in the 8 X 10. I have made 1 proof so far. There is another tree, much taller slightly to the right, and I can also move to the left a bit. tips?

ok and some landscapes that would work as bookmarks, I can’t make them any bigger than 2.5 X 11 but they are really pretty. Although, the top one is bugging me and I am not sure if I can fix the waterline. Is it really noticeable, or just if someone points it out?

Two more by me, I think they are near ready. The color and lighting was pretty spot on to the computer. My proofs for them were 5 X 7 and 4 x 6 respectivly.

the next is cropped just below the powerline in the actual proof so it is a tad lower. it was 4 x 6 proof.

this one has been straighten but I think I can only do a 4 x6 or 5×7. the picture came out soft-like when I took it, and I think it will get really blurry if I upsize it anymore. the res is around 4300 x 3500 but it is just fuzzy. looks good on a 4 x 6 though. I believe it was straightened and cropped up slightly. This may not be the correct file, I had about 19 of them to go through.

oh and I am still tracking down the original file to prepare it for prints

it was a 3.5 mile, 2300 ft mountain climb on foot to get that! And me being an idiot, wore flipflops, that broke right at the top, so when Laundry2011 and I went back down, I had to walk the whole rocky, muddy, pine woods trail barefoot. Sooo worth it though, the veiw was amazing and the sun was just setting behind us at the top. It was almost pitch black by the time we got to the bottom again. 😀 I miss doing things like that.

So anyways, I would love some feedback on it, and any photos here are available.
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Thank you for the tips. I calculated the exact pixel res for landscape, so I can turn most any image into a partial pan of that picture. Those were just the first two I did. Thanks I’ll dig around some more for one’s that will work with that. %50 of my art is inspired by own photographs and where I have been and explored, and the other 50% are when someone basically gives me a challenge or shows up with stuff and says make something. I love a good challenge, but I do find myself browsing google too.

One of the coolest thing is that how most of photos have some story behind them, whether it may be how I got there, what happened there or on the the way there, what i did to get it or even how I got the idea to go there. and most of my explorations have around 30-100 pictures of all different angles and places there and on the way. I got 90 pictures from all around my house and fields, mountains and train tracks around my house. I rode around on my bike and found lots of great angles before the mist burned off after an hour. I was absolutely soaked from laying in the dew covered grass and damp soil, but hey the pictures were great!

here is the original inspiration for butterfly on birch and butterfly in the bush:

and this was cool one morning:

I always loved riding the 9 miles to town at dawn to be at work at 7:00am so I was usually leaving around 5:30 to 6:00 am to be sure I would still make it if any issues such as car accidents on the bridge etc would happen. The quickest I did the 9 miles at once was when I rode from town back home and back to town in 40 min to go to work when I was called it. That means I was averaging 27 miles an hour on my mountain bike when I calculate it. I do not like cruisers and never have. That was two summers ago. Anyways, it is really amazing the things you see just before and as the sun comes up. I have seen bears, mountain lion, many, many sunrises and birds and all such stuff.

This was when we went to yaak (yakk?) falls last spring. There was so much melt off it was some 40 feet above flood stage.

and further down the river:

and a few more…

mmmm..morels!

This is griffen. I have fallowed him for a year.

and slate:

I have ALOT if different pictures..

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Here is the sunset pan again after some work on the horizon line. Does it seem to need more work or is it good?

before

after