Large Scale photography

Aoife1982

Hi everyone!

Im preparing for my first photography exhibition (Im a printer/painter normally!) and I was wondering where can I get large scale photographs devloped or blown up in Dublin? I need to find somewhere pretty good as I dont want to loose any detail when the photographs are enlarged.

Thanks

Dara Robinson

I would say ring the Gallery of Photography. They will be able to give you good advice.

mtracey

What sort of size are you talking about ??

Aoife1982

Hi! The largest piece is going to be blown up to A0 maybe slightly bigger. I will try the Gallery of Photograpy but if anyone has anymore suggestions that would be great

Thanks

minikin

Pro lab: GMS on Townsend Street (IDA centre off Pearse St)
Top notch, what format are your images? film / digital.
Will have to be at least medium format or very large digital files if you want A0 'without losing detail'

Zillah

Absolutely essential point of information: What are you shooting with?

By the sounds of it you want to make something that starts small print really big. That just doesn't work. There's a limit you reach very quickly when you scale an image up, even from film.

Roen

I think gms will do 44" x any length. But as Zillah pointed out you're going to need a FO file or neg to begin with.

Borderfox

I got an A1 from Hardly Normal for €35 from a 4mb JPEG and the quality was stunning. Done while I waited.

Aoife1982

Hi everyone!

Thanks for all your suggestions. i have found a couple of places that might be able to help me. I will let you know how it goes.
Thanks again

seaner

check this out Aoife - i haven't used it myself but some of my mates have

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

here's what they say
"The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size. "

Might be good for your project?

mobileblog

This is the result of a Rasterbator.

It's handy for large scale bedroom prints, but i dont think the quality will match what Aoife1982 is looking for.

Zillah

Borderfox wrote:

I got an A1 from Hardly Normal for €35 from a 4mb JPEG and the quality was stunning. Done while I waited.

Not that I think you're lying or anything but I find that hard to believe. Have you much experience with prints, do others agree on the quality? An A1 page is dozens of times larger than the document size of a 4MP shot afterall...

Calina

uhem, Zillah, if I understand correctly he said the jpeg was a 4MB file, not 4MP resolution image.

The biggest I have gone is 20 inches by 30 inches which is about 9 square inches smaller than A1 and got an excellent print out of Photobox from a picture taken with an 8MP camera, jpeg file size around 2.5MB afair.

Zillah

Whoops, thats kind of different