On: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 Clive Barda wrote:- �Hello Clive, and welcome to the list.
My name is Clive Barda and I specialise in photography connected with the performing arts. For obvious reasons I shoot "35mm" digital (EOS1D) and have been very pleased with the quality of the pictures I get, especially for production photography where I get shadow and highlight detail I only dreamt of when shooting tranny. Much better colour too. �Yep, they see in the dark, dont they? My initial inquiry is whether anyone has any experience of using Genuine Fractals software (or any other method) to increase file size. They claim on their web site to be able to increase file size by 600% with no degradation which sounds too good to be true. I always shoot RAW files which convert to 11.7MB TIFF files. An advertising agency wants to use a picture of mine, slightly cropped, for a 4 sheet poster (60"x40") and they are very reluctant to give it a try from the original file even though I've had surprisingly good results with considerably bigger blow-ups on theatre front-of-house prints. �It will look great at this size from a sensible viewing distance, using Genuine Fractals - that's what it is made for. The agency can lighten up on this, as interpolation is not the same as optical enlargement. Any ideas about this matter (quite urgent) would be very welcome. �Make sure you don't sharpen before upsizing, make sure that your RAW files do not have sharpening applied to them. (Don't worry, this has been discussed at length before:) Thanks. Clive Barda best William PS turn off your HTML <G> =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
