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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    Photography and real estate have nothing in common! I print 8x10 & smaller.

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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    A 4x10 B&W negative of mine was scanned and inkjet printed to about 3'x7' (vertical) for a particular space -- I still have it rolled up around here somewhere. I loved the idea...quite fun to see. There is a space in a bookstore where it would be fun to hang several that size (but horizontal)...very tall ceilings. Sort of the Kodak Colorama feeling...except not really.

    This is the vertical image:
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    Nice shot.

    And if the "framing" was just timber or metal bars top and bottom it wouldn't cost much either. OK for short-term hanging.
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    Yes...that is how it was hung. Even had it up in my office/stockroom (tall ceiling) at the university for a long while.

    There's a market for folks out there -- narrow tall photographs for people with tall ceilings and limited horizontal space!

    PS -- the biggest I have enlarged in the darkroom would be this...a very similar image (me down there instead)...two 7x19" prints, framed 14"x48", If I remember right. From two 4x5 negs, which I no longer have (used a 150mm lens). Nor do I have these negatives...these are scans of silver gelatin contact prints, cropped in PhotoShop, not lined up great, but not much more messing around. I need to get back out there and try to get it in two 4x10 images, or two 5.5x14 images if I get my boys in town at the right time. Some branches have grown across in the 30+ years...might need to rope them back!
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    Yeah 30+ years has a habit of breaking images, and making others

    Vertical panos aren't very common, unless you're into flag poles there aren't a lot of subjects I guess. But that tree is a good example and well suited to a large print, nice photo. Shame you haven't got the negs any more but that's life eh? I've lost much of my early material. Nothing can be done about it, just move on. At least these days we can have scans as a backup.
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    A friend published a book of his vertical Widelux images, but trees do lend themselves to the format!

    Besides 8x10 and 11x14, I also work those in half-frame pano-mode...when one starts to look, one finds a lot of vertical possibilities.

    4x10 carbon print. Fern Canyon. Edited with correct image instead of the repeat!
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    I generally print B&W nominal 16X20, but sometimes 20X24. The exception would be 35mm originals printed quite small. Color prints are done 20X24 (mostly LF, but some 6X9), and 30X40 inch (mostly from 8X10 film, but a few from 4X5). I've sometimes done big diptychs.

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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    Generally using nominal 8x10 to 16x20, depending on image. But small printing gives good results!
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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    8x10s sometimes but mostly 11x14 or 16x 20 depending who they are for.

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    Re: how large (or small) are your prints?

    When I had still a darkroom the largest I printed was 16x20".
    Now I scan en print the same format. Used for workshops.
    But to show what you can do with 8x10" I have it printed to 60". That's a convincing size, you see detail that you didn't see in the analog image.
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