I't's nice to see them so big.... Part 2

You may remember I wrote a post back in June about my images being enlarged for an exhibition stand at which the company I work for was participating?

We are currently exhibiting at the Basel based Ineltec technology exhibition and the stand designer Marcel Brodbeck has again made good use of my images. He has selected several of them to be enlarged to  two meters thirty. That's about seven and a half feet!

My favourite image (below) was made with the EOS 5d and my 50mm standard lens. I shot it hand-held on a ladder in RAW format. I then processed it in Canon's own DPP software and outputted it as a TIFF at 350 dpi.

That's me standing beside the EOS 5d enlargement

 This one was made with a Hasselblad

He's also made use of my images, although not on as big a scale elsewhere on the stand. There are fifteen enlargements of various sizes adorning the shelves which showcase the company's products.

The Ineltec exhibition runs from the 13th until the 16th of September 2011.

Thanks for reading.

It's nice to see them so big!

I work for an international company and as such, I get to see my pictures used all over the world in everything from brochures, posters, newsletters, catalogues and in magazines etc.

The images normally range in size from small postage stamp dimensions for use in pocket catalogues to A3 (29.7 cm x 42 cm) in books.

I was therefore pleasantly surprised recently to see some of my images blown up to 3 meters and used to cover walls at exhibition stands.

The following two images were taken at the "Restauro Ferrara" exhibition in Italy. The original image on the wall was snapped last year at the "Giannada Fondation" when I was in the French speaking part of Switzerland on a photo-tour last year.

What I find especially pleasing is that it was taken with my EOS 5d and a 17 - 40 L lens! That's right. A 24 x 36 sensor. Granted, a bit of post production work went into the image (not from me though. My thoughts of after image editing are here.)

This second image was taken at the "Sisseg" exhibition in Paris.

You can see two images on the walls. One was taken again with my 5d and the 17 - 40 The other was taken with a Rolleiflex SL66 and a 40 mm wide angle lens, using Kodak EPT tungsten balanced film in one of my studios in Basel. Which is which? Well the 5d is the one on the left.

 

On closer inspection, they both look equally sharp.



I took delivery of a digital Hasselblad earlier this year and am already blown away by the amount of details recorded. It'll be interesting to see what level of enlargement we can achieve with it.

 The old

... and the new (pic by Marcel Brodbeck)

As a side note. Both of the exhibition stands you see here were conceived, designed and produced by our in-house Visual Communications director Marcel Brodbeck.

Comments anyone?