need advice and help

Art Scott

Refering to my White tail pic (see below)....I would like to do a portrait crop of the head and antlers and still be able to pull a 16 X 20 or 24 X 36 inch print.
I save all my raw files as tiff at 300 dpi (approx 8 X 10 inches)....will genuine fractals be the tool I need to accomplish what I want to do?? :scratch :scratch :scratch

Many thanks.

jwear

sorry I do not haver a clue but will pop this up and see if rutt or andy can give you a answere --oh did you do a search for a thread on printing

Andy

Please put the original somewhere where we can see it, so we can judge. Just a link please...

Art Scott

Andy wrote:

Please put the original somewhere where we can see it, so we can judge. Just a link please...

.. that is my original...not been shopped....I converted straight from raw to webready jpg.....my only place for another file to go would be smugmug and as you know i can't put the raw or the large tiff (40= something MB) there........

Art Scott

Still needing education
I seem to have lost the original file......but future shots like the above.....

Still wondering how to pull a portrait of the deers head and be able to make it at least a 16X20.....to many times in the woods we may get one shot but see 3 or 4 in the final print that we would like.......if I still had (lost due to DVD corrution) I would have the above one liiking straight and would have liked to have a head portrait taken fom above for the 3rd pic.....

Thanks for all the help.

wxwax

Hi Art. I'm no computer whizz. But to pull off what you're asking is a tall order (if you want your final image to look good.)

At a minimum, I reckon you'd need a super high resolution initial image - say, from a full size sensor or one of those incredibly expensive digital camera backs.

I believe that making a large print from a tiny crop is not easy.

DavidTO

I've heard that the best way to increase the resolution of an image (well, faking it, anyway) is to always use 10%. Just keep making it 10% larger each time until you get to where you want to be.