Recently a post was made about a company claiming to output a 1200 DPI with a 600 DPI printer. Obviously the claim is false. What is true thought is that many times we do not pay enough attention to printing. The company offers a software solution that I found lacking after looking at the samples they offered on line to demonstrate how good it is supposed to be.

Well, this thread is a reaction to that post and the company claims as no one really needs a someone else to put lipstick on a pig. We can all do that quite well if we do not pay attention to what we are doing.

Everything in our computer is calibrated, WYSIWYG and so forth. We select the crop ratio, the printer/paper combination ICC and here we go...

Well, not so fast.

First off you need to consider if you left space for matting/framing. If you did not, welcome to cut toes, short hair style and of course some kid left or right cheek amputation (when it not the weird guy from accounting that lost an arm...). Please revise your crop...

Now you are ready, right?

Nope.

First off the ratio is just that, a ratio. It does not mean the image is printable at all. If you print a 8*10 at 300 DPI the image needs to be al least 2400px*3000px if you are under or over you need to adjust the size using your favorite software.

Up-sizing is more difficult than downsizing simply because the software has to make up pixels that do not exist in the first place. There are several solution to this from specialized software or add on to using what already have.

Once you have done the down/up sizing you then have to check for tonal change then for sharpness and edit as needed.

Well, basically all this should have done all of this a loooong time ago!!!

We really need to PP for the final printed product from the start to avoid all types of problems that will creep up if you do not.

Do not forget that an image is rarely seen close up so the DPI can become somewhat irrelevant in some instance. The further away the less important it appears to be but then again the print may also have to be larger. Selecting the correct crop and image size from the start will make your image look much sharper and more attractive if you pay attention.

In short, while we all learn PP and try new things all the time we often lose track of the final product, whatever it is. Don't.

I shoot with a Nikon D610 in both RAW and JPEG. I'm travelling later this year to northern Canada and Greenland and need help on deciding which lens to purchase. I already have the nikon AFS 24-70 ED 2.8 and nikon AFS 70-200 2.8 G2ED. With the wildlife that I hope to encounter I think the 70-200mm even with a TC14E 1.4 converter will not give me a enough reach.
I'm considering purchasing either the nikon AFS 28-300mm or the nikon prime 300mmF4. I would then leave the 2 heavy lens at home.
Can anyone assist with some views on which would be the better lens to take on my trip. The primary purpose is to shoot wildlife.
Thanks in advance
Russ

A friend who owns a Nikon D7100, and owns only two lenses, a Nikon 18-55mm kit lens, and a FX 28-300mm, wants to save his sister money, from not paying a pro photographer to do a small Wedding. He is an amateur just like me. I asked him, why didn't the Bride and Groom's family chip in to hire a pro photographer. He said they were already paying for other preparations to the Wedding. I told him those 2 lenses he owned were not going to cut the mustard. He does have an external flash unit. I offered to loan him my prime lenses of 35mm f1.8 and 50mm f1.8. And an outdoor plug in work light he could use inside the small Church. He has never done a wedding before. He said he will have two young laborers to help out. He says he can handle it. I told him to prepare for a long day when he does it. Reception included. I'm glad I'm not doing it.

We were taking this very innocent ferry ride from Dauphin Island, AL, to the Florida coast. The ferry boat captain announced, "Folks, please don't be alarmed by anything you are about to see around you. We have agreed with the Coast Guard to cooperate in a training operation during this short ride. Our boat will be the imaginary target of terrorists/invaders/whatevers; the unmarked boat will pretend to try to board us, and the US Coast Guard will try to prevent them from doing so. You are in absolutely no danger: this is merely a drill.
So while a few people looked somewhat green, I, of course, bolted to my Canon 70-200 L IS lens and D7 camera and stood on the very roughly bouncing deck of our boat--trying to protect my outfit from the spray and adjusting to the rather vigorous bouncing with fast shutter speeds.
Needless to say, most of my shots were a combination of very blurred motion and salt water spray; but this one came through the juggernaut. I liked the action, the menace of the 50mm gun, and the determination on the guy's face. Hope you like it. It was an awesome experience coming out of nowhere.

I do have a roku but seldom use it. Last month I canceled Netflix because it had been over a month since I had watched a movie. I pay $72 for land line and internet. I have friends who pay that and another hundred to have cable and are in the same income class as I am. I live in the woods in Arkansas and still have 30 channels with my ouside ant. 7 channels of public TV with some duplication . There is a lot on roku but most are plagued with comercials. Quite a few roku channels have repeated commercials too
Over and over and over.