Mega-Prints

 
Making Mega-Prints
By: Nick Rains
The Making of a 5 X 15 Foot Print

I would hazard a guess that 99% of all photographs never get printed much bigger than A3, and that includes high-end commercial work as well as holiday snaps. Commercially, a double page spread in a magazine or brochure would be the biggest normal use and for home digital darkrooms the biggest size you can easily print on a sub U.S. $1,000 printer is only slightly bigger than A3.
Now don't get me wrong here, A3 is a pretty decent size and is certainly big enough to look just fine when framed and hung on a wall‚ but sometimes the subject matter just cries out for BIG!
I shoot Australian landscapes and have done for many years. Mostly it was done for tourism brochures, books and calendars all of which were subject to my A3 comment above. Recently I have made a foray into the world of Limited Edition printing and there the sky is the limit regarding size, the bigger the better, as long as the quality is maintain...