Help picking photos to donate

Ann McRae

I want to donate some prints to my sons soccer teams silent auction. I am thinking Edmonton and rural area landscapes.

Thinking about some of these:






or the river valley photos I posted today, or maybe something older from these galleries:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/Landscapes

Thoughts?

ann

Ann McRae

Or maybe something like this?

wholenewlight

Ann McRae wrote:

I want to donate some prints to my sons soccer teams silent auction. I am thinking Edmonton and rural area landscapes.

Thinking about some of these:

or the river valley photos I posted today, or maybe something older from these galleries:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/Landscapes

Thoughts?

ann

My favorites in this order: I like the 2nd one (stronger focal point), and then the 1st, and then the 3rd (nice shot but not as strong center of interest for me).

Beautiful fall scenery!

wholenewlight

Ann McRae wrote:

Or maybe something like this?

Very attractive picture and sure to be a seller in your community as a silent auction item. Are the "frame lines" a photoshop type of addition? I might like it better as a simple panorama BUT I'm sure it looks different in the actual print. My cheap Dell flat panel monitor might not be giving me the true effect of your creation. I do like it!

Ann McRae

Okay, so I had 4 of the creek reflection shots printed at 12 x 18. I have to tell you they are amazingly gorgeous! I will mat and frame them and put at least 2 into the auction. (Cost $5 each at Costco).

I took the three shots that I presented as a tryptych above and printed them individually. My idea was that the outside shots would print at 8 x 10 and the inside shot at 10 x 12. My math was wrong when I set the raitos for printing so I will have to redo one or the other. Anyway, frame them in matching frames and sell as a tryptych? I cannot hand stitch a pano and currently cannot accomodate a stitching program, so think this is a good, creative compromise.


As far as how it is presented above - it is the three images layered upon a large canvas (steps: calculate the total size of the three images end to end, create a new image of a selected color that is an amount larger than your three images or start with the end image and increase canvas size to appropriate size, and then copy/paste the images onto the new canvas).


Thanks for the input.
ann

Higgmeister

Ann McRae wrote:

I cannot hand stitch a pano and currently cannot accomodate a stitching program, so think this is a good, creative compromise.

Thanks for the input.
ann

Hi Ann,
I think they should sell very well, all are beautiful.

As for a stitching program, there is a free one that is outstanding. It's called autostitch and can be found here.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Chris

Ann McRae

Higgmeister wrote:

Hi Ann,
I think they should sell very well, all are beautiful.

As for a stitching program, there is a free one that is outstanding. It's called autostitch and can be found here.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Chris

Thanks, Chris. That freeware looks like a winner. I've previously used panorama factory. My other problem is disk space - my computer is rather full!

I showed the prints to the organzing committee last night and they were incredibly well recieved.

ann