Courteous Shade Sold

Courteous Shade

I don’t think I mentioned that I sold a print of the above photograph to Faulkner + Locke, Inc. They are working on a project in Elk Grove, Illinois ((a hotel, presumedly, though I don’t know the details. Also, Faulkner + Locke was quite pleasant to work with as well)) and requested a 30″ x 40″ of Courteous Shade to be hung in a conference room. I asked a professional photographer I know for advice on pricing, and print shop recommendation. He highly praised Printmakers Chicago, and I was quite pleased with how friendly and efficient they were. I certainly would use their services again in the future.

I had a brief moment of panic when the image file I initially sent had too low of a DPI to be printed out that large (my Photoshop file was probably 12″ x 7″), but per the instructions in Scott Kelby’s Photoshop for Digital Photographers I changed the pixel dimension (9600 wide, and somewhere around 6428 tall), the resolution to 360 pixels/inch, and used the Bicubic Sharper sampling algorithm. This did the trick, and the print came out looking sharp, and if I say so myself, beautiful. I shipped the print out last night.

So if you are ever in a building in Elk Grove, and see the above photograph, please let me know, I’d like to see how they framed the photograph.