What type of picture is best suited for canvas?

I have read a few posts on what shouldn't be printed on canvas, but in your opinion, what is?

Portrait?
Group shot?

Thanks!

Canvas has less detail than photographic paper. Print anything you want, but images that don't rely on really fine detail may come out better.

The question is a bit backwards in that you should start with an image and then ask what printing methods present it best. Canvas is textured so images that have large areas of smooth color might not work as well. Sunsets, for instance, look better on glossy media than textured. Forest scenes and rustic scenes with details might print better.

Thanks for the input. I do realize it's a little backwards and I wouldn't print anything on it that would require the coloration to be vibrant nor the details to be exacerbated.

Thanks!

Family portraits turn out well - at times the face should be softer as opposed to tack sharp.

All I can say is that I had a bunch of my bird photos featured in a gallery show with some other artists. There were some other bird photographers that had work in it as well, and the one that thought it was a good idea to print on canvas had really done himself a disservice. All the fine detail was long gone, and his shots presentation just did not work at all.

On the flip side, at another show of photos exclusively taken in underwater conditions, the BEST work was a local guy with images of jelly fish and the like with fantastic lighting all printed on canvas. In this case his eye for color, lighting and the painterly effect of the canvas beat the exotic undersea life on display by the scuba divers that had taken photos in the arctic, south africa , reefs etc..

Canvas works well for images where the sense of reality is taken beyond. Over saturating or wanting to have some dreamy feel works well. That comes with the loss of detail and the viewing distances increase to take in that effect. I've done a few where the overall scene was good but I had ruined it by not selecting a good focus point or there was camera shake.

Thanks to everyone for their opinions...

Very helpful..

I have 4 large canvases of fall colors in the UP of Michigan on canvas and the colors are excellent. While some fine detail is lost, you can make just about anything look good on canvas IMO.