Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)
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got our pics all printed...........that car mountain canvas has been a PITA. Or maybe I'm too picky.
Naaaah. So, everything else we got were prints. Beautiful, very happy with them. Getting frames and dealing with the super glary glass, another story. But the prints are great.
Canvas shows up and it's like.........hazy and overly brown. Like, below how the top left looks kinda hazy like the light is glaring or there's fog? That's really what it looked like. Most of the green is gone. So we call and they are like yep, think there was a printer problem, we'll redo. I'm like super, should have it by party time.
New one arrived yesterday. Opened and there's a small puncture hole and now it's..........orange. The haze is gone and the picture is much clearer, but it's way orange. Not sure if it's over-saturated or they cranked the contrast or what. I'm like, wtf and what do we do now? Found last night that a local camera place can do canvases and so going to try them instead. Talked to customer service and they didn't even question me on the 2nd one being orange. Mentioned something about internal problems right now with canvas screens. So that makes me feel better like I'm not just being a complete PITA, they really are having issues. They do want me to package them for pickup though, which is totally fine cause I had no idea what to do with two large canvas prints like that.
Now to hope the local company has no issues with coloring and can having it ready by Friday. I told them to call if they see any issue with the coloring that they think won't replicate well.
Now if I could find dark brown 8x12 photo frames.......
hazy brown
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2nd try, orange glory
Naaaah. So, everything else we got were prints. Beautiful, very happy with them. Getting frames and dealing with the super glary glass, another story. But the prints are great.
Canvas shows up and it's like.........hazy and overly brown. Like, below how the top left looks kinda hazy like the light is glaring or there's fog? That's really what it looked like. Most of the green is gone. So we call and they are like yep, think there was a printer problem, we'll redo. I'm like super, should have it by party time.
New one arrived yesterday. Opened and there's a small puncture hole and now it's..........orange. The haze is gone and the picture is much clearer, but it's way orange. Not sure if it's over-saturated or they cranked the contrast or what. I'm like, wtf and what do we do now? Found last night that a local camera place can do canvases and so going to try them instead. Talked to customer service and they didn't even question me on the 2nd one being orange. Mentioned something about internal problems right now with canvas screens. So that makes me feel better like I'm not just being a complete PITA, they really are having issues. They do want me to package them for pickup though, which is totally fine cause I had no idea what to do with two large canvas prints like that.
Now to hope the local company has no issues with coloring and can having it ready by Friday. I told them to call if they see any issue with the coloring that they think won't replicate well.
Now if I could find dark brown 8x12 photo frames.......
hazy brown
original image
2nd try, orange glory
You should see her Selfie Exhibit.
maybe, Idk? We have a sunset we got on canvas and it just looks nice. Matte surface and you don't need a frame or glass for it. Thought this one would look nice too.
I really like the look of the pictures on canvas. They are a lot easier to hang to without the extra weight of the frame and glass. Friends of ours have a number of them on a brick wall in their house and it looks pretty bad-ass. We have a few that we need to get done, but I'm biding my time waiting for a good Groupon deal.
yeah, I think they look nice. Have a wedding photo we'd like to get done as one at some point.
We just realized though that we'll have to see what this one has for hangers, probably don't want it on the angled ones the other frames are going on.
I know a guy that does photo printing on stainless steel. I wonder if he does canvas as well.
Also very cool.
Another friend of mine has a series of smaller stainless steel photos put together mosaic-style. I really have no idea what it must have cost, but it looks really really good.
...I'm slowly beginning to realize that I am probably the least artistic of my friends.... by a mile.
Every once in a while I see he posts his work on facebook but for some reason this is the only sample of his of the stainless steel printings. It's not as cool as other work he has done.
Yeah, that doesn't quite match some of the cool things you can do with the medium.
Somewhat related: There used to be a small shop I loved to go to here in KC. The guys would do all sorts of art with blown glass and stainless steel. They also made custom guitars. It was a really random store, but they had crazy talent. If it was in more of an artistic neighborhood, they would have made a killing, but they picked a horrible location with no foot traffic.
is that similar to metal prints then? We got a couple of those after Montreal, seem to work very nicely with bright, high contrast colors.
I'm not sure of any details. I have only seen the pictures he posts, never the actual product
Hope NW made it back home safely today. Nice chatting with you today and gave me a break from the grill. Now if box wasn't on his deathbed, I may have met two RTTers.
Shout out to @BCClone , it was great to meet you today. Great visiting and good food at the church stand, hope sales went well. On to Charles City! Hope to start a little earlier and get done ahead of the rain (afternoon prediction now).
Make sure to say hi to @Bret44 , he's in Charles City now.
Although I think he's busy with assigning swine pens for the state fair.
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