We’ve been slowly (Lynn thinks too slowly!) making prints for our family room. We like metal prints and have been pleased with ones we’ve ordered from MPix. When they sent us a 25% off coupon last week, it was time for another order.
Having images tagged and organized in Lightroom is a big help for something like this. Using its filtering capabilities helped me quickly come up with some (too many) candidates. It was also easy to choose images based on size. I needed enough pixels for a quality larger print.
I spent a few minutes converting some I thought would look good to monochrome. I sorted them based on which ones I liked the best and then asked Lynn to help. We narrowed our B&W choices down to the ones you see below. They’re in date order, along with info about each.
Stormy Shore; Casey Key, FL; June 2015, 8 frame panorama; 8863×6064
Anhinga – full length portrait; Gatorland, FL; March 2016; 5 frame panorama; 7665×11204
Field of Flowers; Advance, WI; August 2017; 3 frame panorama; 5167×4134 
Cocoa Beach Pier before dawn; Cocoa, FL; October 2018; Single frame (Olympus Hi res mode); 10196×6797
Who are you lookin’ at? Viera Wetlands, FL; January 2020; 2 frame panorama; 8312×5541In the end we liked the photo of the deer the best. I think we can appreciate looking at it for a while. Our print should get here next week – I hope it turns out as well as the others we’ve ordered from Mpix.
Do you make prints of your photos? Have you tried metal prints? How do you pick the ones you hang on your walls?
Header image: Lake Eola in downtown Orlando; January 2013; Single frame; 7348×5046
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