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Can a photo taken from a DSLR be blown up on a billboard?

 
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Aug 17, 2014 11:35 |  #16

The way I look at it and maybe a reason I have some success over the years is it has nothing to do with pixel peeping. You can still deliver a clean file and still hit message and a $49.00 investment to help that process is a cheap investment. Quality will never be seen by the art directors, designers and others that are you clients as a bad thing. Good enough is good enough for some but good enough is not good enough with my clients. In my opinion and what this business had taught me over the years is to be really successful you have to exceed your clients expectations consistently. And I will never buy into any arguments to the contrary.




  
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Aug 17, 2014 12:22 |  #17

Fundamental principle, for folks to always keep in mind...

  • Viewing a 4Mpixel 8 inch x 12 inch image viewed from 12 inches away will be IDENTICAL in perceived IQ as
  • viewing the same 4MPixel 8 foot x 12 foot image viewed from 12 feet away will be IDENTICAL in perceived IQ as
  • viewing the same 4MPixel 8 meter x 12 meter image viewed from 12 meters away will be IDENTICAL in perceived IQ as

  • viewing the same 4MPixel 80 foot x 120 foot image viewed from 120 feet away


The human eye has an angular resolution...for a human eye with excellent acuity, the maximum theoretical resolution is 50 CPD (1.2 arcminute per line pair). high-resolution sight as it were only actually occurs in the very middle of your vision, a tiny circle that extends two degrees from center and is detected by the high-res portion of your eye, the Fovea. Preserving the same angular relations in all the above scenarios is what accounts of 'the same' IQ.

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Aug 17, 2014 14:34 |  #18

yogestee wrote in post #17101416 (external link)
From a couple of years ago. My images on a billboard advertising Lao Rugby. Originals taken on a 50D.

Sorry about the below par mobile phone pic.

Good pictures, but I expect that of you.

But I must say that is a beautiful text. Is that how Lao is really written, or is it stylized? And is it letters or ideograms?




  
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Aug 17, 2014 20:19 |  #19

20droger wrote in post #17101753 (external link)
Good pictures, but I expect that of you.

But I must say that is a beautiful text. Is that how Lao is really written, or is it stylized? And is it letters or ideograms?

Thanks Roger ;)

That's the actual script. For those in the know it's different to Thai (similar languages) but I can't tell the difference :oops:


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Aug 18, 2014 05:06 |  #20

Thomas Campbell wrote in post #17098844 (external link)
I've had several billboards filled with a 10MP 1D3 file. 14'x48'. Looked perfectly fine.

yes, but if you need it OnOne / Genuine Fractals works fine for resizing




  
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