Getting a single photo Printed

Ac1dh0u$3. · 11 Mar 2014 at 09:15

Hello..

So I took a photo last night, and I would like to get it printed, I have no idea how to go about this, There's a Snappy Snaps near me, So I'm wondering do I just go down the with the image on a card and do it that way ?

How do I ensure the picture doesn't get stretched etc ?

I'm not sure how to link the photo here from 500px so I'll just link my account

Its Week 4 "The Waiting Game" was taken on a Nikon d7000

Thanks in advance

http://500px.com/acidhouse316

Ac1dh0u$3. · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:41

Cheers for the advice guys, I should have explained, that I'm after a large print and getting it framed.

Where do people go to get that sort of thing done ?

Ac1dh0u$3. · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:03

Thanks Macuser

Ac1dh0u$3. · 12 Mar 2014 at 08:59

Thanks for a the help guys...

Raymond I went on that DS Colour lads and had a poke around I decided to give them a go why not...

I haven't ordered yet because I picked a larger size 36" x 24" and when I go into the the image viewer it says "DPI 130" which it does say is "Good" but its in yellow text. Should this not be around 300, am I getting confused with PPI or is it because I'm trying to print too large ?

Ac1dh0u$3. · 12 Mar 2014 at 09:29

Hmmm, If I drop the size down to 24" x 16" it goes up to 196DPI. Is that just something that happens when you increase the size or is because of the way I have exported the picture from lightroom ? It was a RAW exported to JPEG at 300PPI

Ac1dh0u$3. · 12 Mar 2014 at 09:50

Cheers for the help mate. Ordered a 24 x 16 print, will see how that turns out

Ac1dh0u$3. · 13 Mar 2014 at 10:31

Just an update dudes. Ordered at around 9:50am yesterday morning as per my last post here, I went for 24" x 16" on "satin poster paper" don't know why I picked that, didn't really understand what was different, it was probably one of the cheaper options.

It came to £17.78 - the print was about £10.80 then £3.99 postage and then VAT added on. This was still 2 quid cheaper than Snappy Snaps in my town quoted.

I don't know where DS colour labs are based, but I'm in Northern Ireland and it came this morning and its stunning.

I feel this picture doesn't do it justice but I wanted to enclose something to give anybody that's looking to get a print done an idea. I've owned my DSLR for a nearly 2 years now and this is the first image I had printed.

Thanks for all the help

Ipod for scale

Now where can I get a frame ?? lol

Ac1dh0u$3. · 13 Mar 2014 at 11:05

Did you order from the same place ?

Ac1dh0u$3. · 13 Mar 2014 at 12:52

It did Macuser, cheers.

I only ordered one just to see what it looked like, but I will definitely use them again.

Ac1dh0u$3. · 13 Mar 2014 at 14:08

jonneymendoza said:
So you went with a satin poster? so its not a canvas or hard back material like acrylic/canvas so it can be hanged as it is?

Yea its not hardback or anything, it came rolled up in a like a poster tube

Ac1dh0u$3. · 14 Mar 2014 at 20:25

Right I'm back and in another pickle haha.

I've been overwhelmed by friends and family asking for prints of this photo. So only happy to sort them out (having a photo I took on display in someones house can hardly be a bad thing). I decided to get some more printed.

Without thinking, I ordered 18"x12" prints in keeping with the 3x2 ratio. My thinking was I'll just give them the print and they can go about getting it framed or whatever.

I was planing to get them cardboard photo folders you can get in order to give them to the said people(like a temporary frame). Turns out 18"x12" is a bit of an awkward size as its more of a poster size than a photo size and I can't find a form of keeping the print protected.

Any Ideas of what I could get? like some sort of slip of something just to keep it safe