Most people own a cherished pet. But have you considered printing a photo of it onto canvas? For a long lasting print, easy to maintain, you can have a print hanging on your wall in nearly any size.
This excellent photo is one such example, measuring 450mm high it’s now hanging proudly on the owner’s wall. Photo courtesy of David from Dtphotographics Link to Dtphotographics
Murray from Wellington enquired about having this photo of his daughter enlarged and printed onto canvas. Measuring 5 x 7in standard print, a high resolution scan was made. All minor marks and scratches removed then enlarged to 500 x 770mm and printed onto canvas.
In Murray’s own words:
“The subject is my daughter who was probably six. I took the photo using a very basic camera in the early 1980’s, in Burnham Beeches in England . I had an enlargement done at the time by someone in England advertising a very similar service to yours in the newspaper – I remember mailing it away and being very pleased with the result; and even remember the cost, which was seven pounds.
That original enlargement was then framed and has been on the wall of our home in Lower Hutt for 35 years. It has faded slightly over that time, hence the new enlargement which does an excellent job of restoring the colours of the original.
Kind regards
Murray”
Chris from Beanlab saw me about having his business logo printed onto canvas. Chris deals in specialty fresh roasted single origin and custom blend coffees, selling direct to the public. He wanted a nice quality sign he could use in promotional exhibitions of his coffee roasting business. Having seen the same old stuff people were using as signage he wanted something that reflected the quality of his coffee products.
Using his provided logo, I produced a very nice 600mm x 600mm sign that is easily transportable yet durable – as all our products are – be they snap shots or art reproductions. Chris loved the result. After dropping it off he shouted me to a wonderful flat white!
Chris’s website Beanlab can be found at bleanlab.co
Darren called in to see me about having a couple of pencil sketches printed onto canvas. Darren runs a business doing architectural drafting. As a side interest Darren has been drawing freehand pencil sketches. He was keen to see these two printed and mounted on canvas.
I scanned in the drawings, resizing and printing them. With the black and white abilities of the Z3100 printer, the sketches came out looking marvelous. The top image of the house will be a gift for Darren’s mother, while the other of the launch will be proudly displayed in Darren’s office.
Marcee came to see me about having this great photo printed onto canvas. This is a picture of her brother with a Kingfish he’d speared just out from the Whangarei Harbour entrance.
Marcee decided to have it enlarged to A2 size – a big size to match the fish!
Welcome to 2011! With a week of work already underway, Photo Enhancements has hit the ground running with more orders to complete and new projects in the works. The season starts this year with discount specials on multiple order prints. We’re also doing one print specials on request. Tell us your requirements and we’ll be only too glad to help.
Up and coming talented artist Sandra Whyte contacted me about having her art works copied as giclee reproductions after being recommended by artist Steve Moase (see previous blog post).
Sandra had seen my print work at the Tukaha Gallery in Tutukaka and wanted the same high quality. She brought me this painting of a New Zealand Wood Pigeon (Kereru) with Mount Manaia, Whangarei Heads, in the background. Measuring 22 x 28in mounted, I scanned in the painting a portion at a time, joined it all together then printed out a canvas proof to match the colours with the original.
Sandra loved the final print, showing all the detail and colour of the original – she says she’ll definitely back with more paintings. The painting is titled “Birds Eye View” and the reproduction will be on show and for sale at the Tukaha gallery over the Christmas period then at the Parua Bay Gallery. Sandra has more of her work online at: Sandra Whyte – Artfind
The Toias came to see me about having this and another photo scanned and printed onto canvas. Mr Toia had served with the New Zealand army and spent time down in Antarctica. This photo shows the New Zealand Husky dogs with a US Starlifter transport jet in the background.
The Huskies were removed from service in 1986. The original photo was 12 x 17cm and enlarged into a wonderfully detailed canvas print 53 x 40cm size in perfect black and white.
A big project just completed for Steve Moase, a painting and fine sketch artist based in Tutukaka, Northland. Steve had used my services last year to print some giclee canvas reproductions of his art works. It was very succesful so Steve decided to print more examples of his work.
First also this year was an introduction of fine art print paper – specifially Breathing Color’s Elegance Velvet 310gm textured 100% cotton rag paper. This was used to print the sketches you see here of the birds and “Ngunguru Sanspit”. Steve was blown away by the quality, he couldn’t see any difference between these and his originals.
Steve has all his works and other artists’ work on show at the Tukaha Gallery, Tutukaka over the summer holidays. The bottom two canvas prints are titled “Poor Knights” & “Ngunguru from Pat’s”
Christine was so impressed with the pet lamb reproduction (see previous blog post) she called back a few days later with this photo to be put onto canvas. It’s a picture of her son, Cam, with two Marlin. Nothing special you might think? Not quite. He actually caught the two fish on his own – as in he was fishing on his own, hence no photo of the boat skipper – he was it!
All Christine had to work with was a small 6 x 4 photo, with another image that showed the weigh in blackboards with more clarity. I blended in the two photos, enhance the image and made a 12x18in canvas print.
Fishing information: Weighed at Whangarei deep sea anglers club, Tutukaka, Skipper was Cam, both striped Marlin, weighing from left, 129.4Kg and 106.4 Kg, 24 Kg tackle on the boat Wetta, caught on 24/10/2010. Well done Cam!