My Starless Cygnus Wall on Acrylic Print
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- So I've now run the course on printing my astrophotography pictures with canvas, metal, and acrylic prints. Is there any anything else to try?
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It looks Awesome
Thanks Ace
wow ..the dept is super.the black is real black. good idea chuck.
Cool, thanks
kajouman
Beautiful. The acrylic looks like you could fly right into it.
Thanks James
Loving how good it looks, and I like the Velcro idea to hang it there while you make videos.
Thanks Gordon, cool - I will make sure I hang it there next time.
Gorgeous picture and print !!!
Thanks Charlie and Dan
I think the Acrylic looks cool. I might just try a print and see how it looks.
Cool, then I have once again succeeded with encouraging people to spend more money, lol. Thanks Rob.
@@ChucksAstrophotography I think it just comes with the hobby
On Glass, they are even better and seem to give a lot more Depth.
I landed here from visiting Dylan Odonnell's RUclips channel and so I had to also subscribe, Awesome print, by the way.
Thanks Alien! Glass worries me - sounds breakable.
First class!
Thanks David
Man for $29.99, that acrylic is kinda hard to beat! Great shots!
Thanks, right - for $29.99 it's worth it to try it at least once and see if you like it.
I like glossy too and the starless effect is cool. You could try to attach a hanging wire on the back for a single wall nail or drill out a hole in the wood if you are careful.
Thanks Starman, but that's my point, why should I have to do anything? Just ship the picture with a middle hole already there and don't inconvenience the customers.
Good video! Could you do a updated video about any new companies that you use and also how do you prepare your data for them to print. RGB or CMYK ... Thank you
I wonder how a parallax print (or whatever they're called) would look with some nebula, make that depth really pop
All three of those are beautiful prints, Chuck. Why don't you just put a sawtooth hanger on the wood block, rather than using the key slots? Then you can hang it from a single point.
Thanks Tom, I do have saw tooth hangers that I bought for this very reason, but I suppose it goes back to what I was saying about being inconvenienced. If I give some pictures away, am I going to give them saw tooth hangers as well. I'm just saying it would be nice if it were shipped to support one nail. I'm fussy, I want it ready to go, no fuss - no muss.
From what I have read, 300 dpi can be obtained on both metal and acrylic. 150 to 300 is recommended for both.
Acrylic definitely looks great Chuck. Can you drizzle the pictures to increase the resolution?
Yes Ray, in fact that's a very good idea if you know ahead of time that it's something you want to print. Thanks
My plan is to do a 4 panel mozaic of this region and dither then drizzle...going to take a while!
@@tommyboypackham9668 Nice, that will look cool!
Thanks for showing us your astrophoto! Have you thought about selling such prints?
Thanks, no - seems like a lot of work to sell prints and not enough payoff in return.
Thanks, Chuck. Just ordered an 11x14 of one of my Rosette Nebulas. $26USD with free shipping, just can't beat that.
Cool, I would be interested to know if yours comes out perfect or if there are any minor defects.
I love Cygnus Chuck! That is my screen name on most of the forums.
This is one of my favorites. Thanks Richard.
The Acrylic is looking really nice, I like the glossy finish and also the colors seem to deliver as I'm comparing your video to the picture you uploaded on astrobin. Do you prepare the picture before you send them for printing like brightening it up? I heard that astrophotos seem to be a bit dark as you print them on canvas...
Thanks Dotmod, yes - I do brighten them up a little. But I've ordered from this place before and they know about astro photos - sometimes they have take the liberty to brighten them up too.
Awesome! What about GLASS prints like from a company like Fracture?
Glass prints from a company called Fracture? That kind of sounds like a joke, lol.
@@ChucksAstrophotography ha! that said they are big company and I think astrophotography would look amazing in this format... www.fractureme.com
These look great. Do you have links for your printing vendor?
Thanks, here is the link for the acrylic: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071VBS3KX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
wholly molly. Really good. Do you anything special with sharpening , clarity , saturation etc before sending for printing
Thanks. The only thing I do is try and make the brighter before sending it in because space pictures tend to come out dark on prints.
I told you acrylic is much nicer then metal :) it's looks great
Thanks LP, I know someone did, but I couldn't remember who.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Acrylic prints can only be understood in person, it's hard to see in pictures or videos:) that's my opinion
@@ChucksAstrophotography acrylic face mounted prints should be the highest res prints you can get. They are not printed on the acrylic sheet but on normal Metallic or glossy paper then face mounted to the acrylic sheet. You will get amazing results with a 1/4 sheet acrylic. The smudges come from bad laminating (the sheet was dirty of the print wasn't cleaned properly)
There's a guy called Peter Lik (landscape photographer) check out his galleries all over the country and he sells acrylic face mounted prints for a lot, more then what you are thinking (~$20k per print)
A good acrylic face mounted print is expensive -artbeatstudios.com is really good but it will cost $200+ depending on the size.
Thanks for all this info!
Very nice Chuck...Cygnus will be my first target when it is high enough in a few months and with my new 183MM-PRO. Love the starless process on this. Were these taken with you Astronmik filters?
Thanks TommyBoy, yes the Astronomik filters.
The glare ruins it for me... non-gloss metal all the way! What were the resolutions of those? Any skunks trapped yet?
Right, glare does represent a challenge - but I can't resist the eye candy of seeing glossy astro pics. The resolution on my latest one, the Cygnus Wall was 3554x2426. No skunks yet. I'm surprised.
@@ChucksAstrophotography 8+ mp? That enlarged pretty good then! I love your colors in that Veil print. Skunks tame pretty good and don't spray their "friends". Some thing to consider if you catch a young one. They can be trained, walk on a leash and play. Just have to trim their claws once in a while...
@@athopi That's good to know, but friendship is not my plan with any skunks captured.
Chuck don't you have a local library where you can put up your cosmic art on display, BTW no outtakes!!
Oh I would love to put them on display somewhere. I nailed this video on my second try, no funny outtakes this time.
Do you need to adjust your pictures to get the fainter details to show? Just tried getting an Orion picture printed but all the fainter blue and brown outer nebulosity is lost unless it's backlight. Looks great it i stick it to the window :)
What is the maximum size you have printed so far without having problems with the resolution of the 1600? Great prints!
Thanks Ha, I know the Cygnus Wall picture had a resolution of 3554x2426 and it came out well. But I don't recall the highest or lowest I've ever tried.
Can we buy your prints
Thanks, but if I were you, I would go to the NASA site, download pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and print those. Much better.
@@ChucksAstrophotography no there is not the same attraction than yours. I also do astrophoto and print somr from my instagram
@@astronomiste1571 Thanks, but I don't sell them, my schedule is pretty full already.
Who aligns a picture... Just got to eyeball it. Unless you're like my wife, with a crooked head. 🙃
LOL, if you could see how many freaking nail holes are in the wall behind my pictures. I am terrible at this.