Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> place) and feel that the usual advice " 'sharpness' doesn't matter, if you
> enlarge a lot you will view it farther away" is not valid for me. Of
> course, a great photo is great even if unsharp, golfball grained and not
> focused ;) But not landscapes, most of the time.
just recently there was a poster (US='billboard') campaign for Penguin
books which featured, among other things, a poster of Mary Ellen
Mark's photo '"Rat" and Mike with a gun, Seattle 1983', which shows 2
youths, one of whom is putting a handgun into his jacket (or taking it
out, it's not clear). The original is on 35mm b&w. Blown up to poster
size it was a wonderful, and I thought very effective, advert,
although it caused a bit of contoversy over here.
Looking directly up at the poster from the pavement (sidewalk), ie
from about 1.5 metres (2') away the grain, although noticeable, was
not as large as I'd have expected from a 35mm neg. Does anybody know
how such a blow-up is done? Is there some sort of computerised
extrapolation taking place to fill in the gaps and reduce the size of
the grain?
--
Cheers,
Bob
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe,
go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to
visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
