Monday, July 7, 2008

Square pegs don't fit in round openings and other great info on proportions.

Square pegs don't fit in round openings and other great info on proportions.

Once you understand photo proportions it seems easy to understand but to people that don't understand the concept this is actually hard to understand.

There are traditional photographic print sizes. That is what we offer for our photo canvas sizes. Most 35mm camera take photos that are proportional to a 12x18, and 24x36. That means if your photo was proportional to a 4x6 it would not be proportional to a 11x14 or 16x20 and some cropping would be necessary to have your image fill all of the 16x20 or 11x14.

We complicate matters more by having deep stretcher bars (at our website www.digitalphotosoncanvas.com not our express site) that look great but from the front you lose an additional 1.5" on each side. Below are examples of what a painting by Van Gogh would look like reproduced in different options.





For more information on proportions.

Cheers,
Mike

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