I think you mean magnitude, not proportion. I agree: Answering the "what looks good over the couch?" (or in your case fireplace) generally requires more size. Which is why I have a 16x35 inch canvas wrap over the sofa in the living room. Looks lovely ... it's a crop on a 12 Mpixel frame from the GXR. Nobody's walked up to it with a magnifying glass yet and asked why it didn't have more detail.
Of course, over a set of 7 photos, 8x8 inch matted and framed to 13x13 inch, looks pretty nice in the bedroom too and covers a similar amount of wall space. And 49 4.25x3.5" images in small frames could make an impressive display covering most of my office wall if I so chose... ;-) G On Sep 23, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quality aside, proportion is important to your enjoyment of an image. > As wonderful as your 4.25x3.5" image may be, it's going to look out of > place and hard to view mounted above my fireplace. But my 36x24" > landscape is going to look just fine there (unless it's too soft or > pixellated due to having been taken on a low rez camera). I would > locate your small and intimate image in a spot in keeping with its > size and viewing requirement. > > In the same way an architect wouldn't design a single small bathroom > window for a livingroom wall. > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: >> I never said that more resolution was a bad thing. I said it was no longer >> the limiting factor in the quality of a photograph. >> >> What is the quality of a photograph? Simple: a quality photograph captures >> your mind and holds you. It expresses something poignant, beautiful, >> interesting, etc. There's a baseline of technical quality required to >> achieve that, as well as a baseline of aesthetic impact. >> >> "I need more pixels for printing big" is such a shill. I don't find big >> photographs have any more quality than small ones. In most cases, they have >> less, but they impress just because they're BIG. Bloated, IMO. I very rarely >> print larger than what fits on a 13x19 piece of paper, and most commonly >> print in the 6x8 inch range. >> >> My most recent project was 52 prints, 4.25x3.50 inches in size with an image >> area 3x3 inch. Showed it at a group exhibition of fellow photographers ... >> It won three awards against the vast and gorgeous competition prints that >> others submitted. Yeah, I make exhibition prints up to 24x30 too, but >> rarely. I find them only occasionally interesting. >> >> Capturing gesture, expression, emotion ... that's what quality photographs >> do. Not cover walls... >> >> G >> >> >> On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Tom C <caka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Here's where I coming from on this. To say one's images wouldn't or >>> couldn't benefit from increased resolution is like saying they >>> couldn't benefit by using a finer grained film (in the day) or a >>> higher quality lens. >>> >>> Maybe some figure they never print above size D x D, or display an >>> image larger than P x P. That's fine maybe they don't *need* it. >>> >>> Image capture is the start of the process. To belittle the idea that >>> increased resolution is not a desirable thing is akin to saying you're >>> quite willing to throwaway image information that was there for the >>> taking. The principle is start out with the best achievable first gen >>> image and the end result will be better as well. >>> >>> There's tradeoffs of course in price, weight, flexibility, and each >>> person is different. >>> >>> I have a lot of 6MP captures I like too, but if I wanted to display or >>> print large I'd be far happier to have captured them at 20, 24, or >>> 36MP. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
