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I would suggest starting with a 20×30 poster special print from labs; they charge only $9.95 ($3 extra for metallic paper) per 20×30 print. Shipping is in bulletproof hard tubes and well packed. Speedy service with reasonable turnaround times. They usually start on a job within about 1-2 business days, assuming normal circumstances. You can find their website by doing a Google search if interested.

I’m a very satisfied customer of theirs with no other connection. The last large job I had they done, a veteran professional framer said the print looked to be on par with some of the art gallery work he frames. Lots of people here likes MPix for doing large prints. Probably hard to go wrong with just about any professional print lab. The process is pretty painless.

Read full article Make Your Great and Big Print.

I am glad to inform you that the Photos of the Year 2008 contest has been completed, and we have come up with the exciting winners gallery for the Best Photos of the Year 2008.

I have occasionally made A3 prints from my photos but, despite being mildly interested, never really put any effort into optimizing my workflow. Prints cost money, and you need to put them somewhere so why bother?

First of all, prints are cool. A 30×45 print of your photo gives a much richer impression of the scene than a crappy flickr page. Not only is it bigger, allowing your eyes to wander around the image, but the color gamut of a printer (= the displayable spectrum of colors) is much wider than what you typically see on a monitor too.

Second, you can make money with prints. Maybe you actually can’t, maybe only after you die, but there is the slight chance that someone pays you 3.3 million dollars for a c-print diptych of a supermarket interior. Thus it won’t harm if you are at least prepared.

Third, if you have a serious camera fetish such as I have, you simply want to know what can be done with the binary data you collect on your compact flash cards.

Consequently, in order to become smarter, more hoity-toity and richer, I am now going to make some occasional print experiments. First of which I did on the weekend. Read full article.