Best place for large prints?

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Curious as to where the best place is to upload photos for large prints.
Also, what should one take into consideration when preparing an image for
creating large prints to get the best results from these places? (Shooting
with a D70.) Obviously, there is no way of knowing exactly what your print
will look like 'till you get it.

Thanks

Sheldon

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"Stacey" <fotocord@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sheldon wrote:
>
>> Curious as to where the best place is to upload photos for large prints.
>> Also, what should one take into consideration when preparing an image for
>> creating large prints to get the best results from these places?
>>
>
> I'd play with some different upsampling programs and then home print some
> 8X10 crops to see when you are getting the results you want. Also is a
> good
> way to test various amounts of sharpening etc before commiting to a big
> print from the file.
>
> --
>
> Stacey

Good idea, and I've done this. My assumption is that cropping and enlarging
1/4 of an 8x10 back up to 8x10 is the equivalent of a 16x20. I've been able
to make noise look more like film grain, so I believe I can go much bigger
than that, based on my experiments. Looks like a blowup of "pushed" b&w
film. I kinda like the "grain," as long as the photo is sharp otherwise.