It’s a great picture of my daughter, and I want to order a very large (I’d go with 20x30, larger if I could) copy of it…as big as I can get without losing a lot of detail or having it get all grainy or icky.
I don’t have enough experience with digital pictures to know how much I can get away with here; I’m hoping someone with more knowledge can offer an opinion. I know it’s not incredibly sharp to begin with (part of its charm for me, I think)…but I don’t want a big field of green with a fuzzy thing off to one side, either.
The caption says the resolution is 1280 x 960 pixels.
If you enlarge it to 20 X 30", each pixel will be 0.5 X 0.5 millimeters on a side.
That’s getting pretty course, but is still smaller than the ~2mm dots Seurat used for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
I tend to agree. I normally shoot at 1600x1200. I’ve found, depending on the image, 8x10 looks good. 11x14, maybe, but you begin to notice it’s not film. 20x30, I dunno. I suspect that image would be looking pretty muddy.
On preview…then you need to find out your specs…what’s your camera set at? Do you have a program you can open it in that will give you image size?