Field to Print - Photographing and Printing a Massive 60"x90" Triptych
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- I recently printed this MASSIVE 60"x90" triptych print from my friends at ArtBeat Studios, and it looks amazing! In this video, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at my process in the field, and in addition, I'll show you everything you need to know about creating your own triptych piece.
0:00 - In the Field
4:22 - How I Edited the Image
11:55 - Creating the Triptych
18:04 - Checking Out the Print
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Very satisfying seeing the final product hanging up on the wall. Inspires me.
Thanks for checking it out!
What an awesome finished masterpiece
Thank you!!
Another great video. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Really impressive channel man. I think I saw you at Alabama Hills in early February, you were taking some telephoto shots of Whitney during the afternoon. Cheers.
Thank you so much! I was out there around then but I don’t recall exactly when. Regardless, I appreciate the kind words!
Great to see your video explaining the scene and what you wanted to capture. YES! I really like sharp images. I'm understanding that in some locations they don't permit tripods. Of course you need the camera stable! I would have to be leaning on a side wall. Since you were on a tripod, did you turn off stabilization? I would also use 2-second delay/auto shutter. With your lens which wasn't especially wide, did you consider multiple shots to later stitch into a panorama? Did you consider bracketing exposure and blending later for HDR? Thanks for your layers/adjustments info. Your result is spectacular! Yes! on metal is interesting, and with the satin (which still has some gloss). I haven't been brave enough yet to print anything on metal, since it's costly and any imperfections would bother me. My printing on canvas has been good, but of course that obscures/forgives some of the finest details. For such a large print, did you size your print-files to be 250 pixels per inch? How huge were the files?
I'm only aware of a few areas where tripods aren't permitted, with Antelope Canyon and photo tours in Zion being the only two. Luckily, this is a pretty remote slot that isn't marked and not many people know about so there is no rules like that here. Always good to avoid using spiked feet so you don't damage the wall, so I just use the rubber feet.
I do turn off lens stabilization on a tripod. The lens I was using is a wide angle and doesn't have the option. You don't need to worry about turning off in-camera stabilization in my opinion. I did use a 2 second delay as well (or if I didn't, I meant to!).
You certainly could turn it into a panorama if you wanted the extra megapixels. Luckily, my camera is already 60 megapixels and I upsize the photo for print so it looks fine. The panorama would probably be fine but it just adds for the opportunity to screw something up along the way, so if I do it like that I always shoot a standard single shot too.
I printed at 150 PPI, which has no visible difference from 300 PPI when printed. As a JPEG, the file is somewhere around 70-100mb.
@@AustinJamesJackson I was thinking of Antelope Canyon in AZ in particular. Hadn't heard whether at Zion they restricted, too. Glad you were able to shoot, and were careful with the tripod feet to avoid marring.
My Sony A6000 APS-C doesn't have IBIS, but my Sony 18-135mm has OSS. I'm always looking to have sharpest photos, so when I know I'm resting or bracing the camera really solidly or when it's on tripod I do turn off SteadyShot.
I mistakenly heard in your commentary that the lens was 70mm. That's why I mentioned possibly multishot pano. Listening again I heard you shot at 22mm, so your Tamron lens is their 17-28mm. 🙂 With my APS-C my 18mm wide would be 25mm full frame equivalent. I know my lens has some distortion at its widest, so I would zoom slightly and take a few overlapping shots.
Thanks for PPI and file size info on the big print. Makes sense. My single images from my Sony are 24 Mpixels.
Regarding colors and printing... I adjust my computer monitors for Gamma, brightness, contrast using just Windows' settings routines. Haven't any separate calibration tool. Have you gone through more meticulous checking of what you see on screen vs how prints come out for color/contrast? My local area, low cost printing 8x10 on paper vary a lot from what I see. That's had me hesitate from trying higher cost higher quality on metal or glass.
I haven’t done anything to my screen and find it to be accurate with numerous print shops I’ve used. To be fair, it is a Mac and Mac’s are known for having spot on color calibration out of the box. Other monitors are hit or miss, so it’s hard to say without doing a test print or calibrating your monitor.
Austin, stellar shot! Thank you for this tutorial, I learned some things I did not know. One question, how do you deal with lightening your file so that it does not end up too dark after printing?
Hey Brian! Thanks for checking it out. There are a lot of different ways to do this, but the best way is to make a test print with the lab you're printing at. Then you can figure out how the image on your screen compares to the print file. Luckily, I've printed with ArtBeat for a while so I have it pretty dialed in.
Thanks for bringing us along on your journey to create this print. I’m curious why you chose a 150 ppi setting vs a 250 or 300 when saving it out, can you please elaborate? The final result looks great, well done.
Thanks so much! 150 PPI versus 300 PPI doesn't have any visible difference. I've tested it numerous times and they look the same, and the lab I print these at tells you to do 150 PPI. A lot of labs advertise being able to print in 300 PPI, but if you send a 150 PPI and a 300 PPI image, they'll look exactly the same.
Very cool...do you find 150 pixels is usually good enough. I would have thought 300 for metal. Fantastic image!
The difference between 150 and 300 on a metal print is negligible!