Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-09 Thread Tim Bray
1/1000 sec, f4.5, ISO 80. The grain came from some combination of the plane window, the intervening 5 miles or so of air, the fact that I had to crank contrast boost blacks quite a bit to counteract the aerial bleach-out, and, well, inflating a 3000x3734 picture to this silly degree. -T On Sat,

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-09 Thread Mark Roberts
Tim Bray wrote: 1/1000 sec, f4.5, ISO 80. The grain came from some combination of the plane window, the intervening 5 miles or so of air, the fact that I had to crank contrast boost blacks quite a bit to counteract the aerial bleach-out, and, well, inflating a 3000x3734 picture to this silly

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-09 Thread Tim Bray
I appreciate all the kind words, but let’s be frank: I’ve been flying a lot on business for over twenty years and I’ve never seen anything remotely like that out of the window before. I pointed and shot with the point-and-shoot; those mountains took their own picture. -T On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-09 Thread Joseph McAllister
I've never sat next to a window that wasn't so hazed or scratched up that I could take any photograph worth looking at. Might be a result of my never having the money or need to fly across the country with a carrier that takes care of or buys new planes when the older ones get dirty. On Sep

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
On 9/7/2012 19:04, Mark C wrote: Wow - that is stunning! Mark Ditto... what ISO did you shoot that with? ann On 9/6/2012 8:52 PM, Tim Bray wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-07 Thread Chris Mitchell
Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/09/06/-big/RUNE6097.jpg.html - that’s a chair it’s propped

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-07 Thread Darren Addy
That is a terrific image, Tim, and I'm glad you did this little experiment. It is hard to simulate what you are seeing with a picture of a picture presented at monitor resolution (of course) but the fact that YOU are pleased with it tells me all I need to know. I think that sometimes we forget

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-07 Thread Mark C
Wow - that is stunning! Mark On 9/6/2012 8:52 PM, Tim Bray wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big!

PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-06 Thread Tim Bray
That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/09/06/-big/RUNE6097.jpg.html - that’s a chair it’s propped up against. 40x50, more or less.

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-06 Thread Paul Stenquist
Great stuff. Something to be proud of. Paul On Sep 6, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big!

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-06 Thread Steven Desjardins
That's really nice. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Great stuff. Something to be proud of. Paul On Sep 6, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-06 Thread Kenneth Waller
Great capture and print. What was the size of the file and the res of the camera? Canvas is well suited to upsizing some images depending on the particular subject. Well done! -Original Message- From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com Subject: PESO: How big can you print? That picture I

Re: PESO: How big can you print?

2012-09-06 Thread steve harley
on 2012-09-06 18:52 Tim Bray wrote That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/09/06/-big/RUNE6097.jpg.html missed the PESO but it looks