The lobsters have arrived

Posted January 8, 2009

Like most people, I shoot a lot of pictures, but I print very few of them.  When I do print out pictures, I usually print out 4×6 prints or 5×7.  Before yesterday, the biggest prints that we had in the house were a bunch of 11×14 and 11×17 prints on the wall.  My wife really liked the picture I took of some lobsters we ate during our trip to Boston while visiting Andy and Crystal.  She liked it so much that she thought it would be really good decoration right near the dining table.  How big you ask?  It’s 24×36 print.  Man, I’ve never printed out something this big before.

I must say that I am very impressed with the quality of the print.  I ordered the print from Wink Flash.  In the past I only ordered small prints from them because of their insane prices.  This time I took a chance to order a poster size print and I am impressed.  I ordered the laminated print for extra protection, but I don’t think I needed to because the print went right into a frame.  Nevertheless, it cost me about $32 + about $20 for the frame at Target.  Here is the original picture:

I didn’t even take this picture with my good camera.  I didn’t even have it then.  It was taken with my trusty old Digital Rebel with a Canon 17-40 f4L lens.  It was taken at 6 megapixels, but the large print was still pretty nice.  Maybe in my next trip, I’ll get a similar picture with my better camera.  We’ll see what 10 megapixels can do.