This is another of Dave the RNS Staff Photographer’s pictures. You may recognize a portion of it from the header of Joe’s blog.
I’m posting it again because not only is it my favorite Boomershoot photo to date, I just got the blown-up print back from the shop for mounting on my office wall.
I say it’s my weekend project because a 55″ x 104″ sheet of photo paper (yes, it’s more than eight feet long) is far too heavy to just tack on the wall, and due to the size it’s far too expensive for me to have framed. So I’m going to take a couple of my heavy plywood sheets from the spare wood rack behind the house, clean them and sand them smooth, and use them as the backer with some sanded and painted 2x4s as the frame. Gloss black should look nice. All I’ll need to buy is a large sheet of plexiglass (or maybe two butted together) to protect the image from dust and keep it flat.
If you wanna see what it’s like, open the photo in your standard Windows imaging program and enlarge it to 200%. Yes the figures are blurry, but not too much — just enough, in fact, that it’s quite like an Impressionist painting. It looks fantastic. Watch this space for updates and images of the final project mounted on my wall.
A quick Google search for ‘sheet lexan seattle’ bring up some hits. The site I looked at for Ridout Plastics (San Diego) listed sheets 48×96 and larger. Thicknesses 1/16″ to 4″. They say they ship to the Seattle area. Also, look in the Yellow Pages under ‘plastic’. Use the special drill bits for holes.
Good luck. I look forward to pics. For next year, consider a camera on a tripod so you can pan multiple pics into a panorama.
hth, Erik in Colo.
Wow. Thanks! I’m not in Seattle, though — that’s Phil. I’m in Livermore, CA. Thanks for the tip on the drill bits — I’d have forgotten about that and probably cracked it.
Doh! Sorry.