I'm in the process of decorating my office, and have a wide open wall that I'd like to hang a large canvas of artwork or photograph that best captures the essence of Porsche, something like 60" x 60" to play with, maybe a little bit more of space dependent on how I hang it......I'm thinking even some angular, urban shots of a GT3RS, or a 2010 GT3, or a vintage Porsche even (like photos of the steering wheel, black and white, that kind of stuff)....here's what my initial research pulled out.......

http://www.nicolashunziker.com/ (amazing work and is , but out of my price range)

http://www.frecksautoart.com/porsche.html (even something like this, I really like it, but I'm looking at a much large size then what's offered)

any input is greatly appreciated.

 

One cool thing you can do is to find some vintage postcards / reproductions / prints. Then have them scanned and output to a poster inkjet. There are many local mom and pop shops than can do this.

 

boochook,

Have you considered using a photo service to print canvas conversion of photos? I decorated my garage with a few vintage photos that I downloaded from the net, photoshop'ed, then sent to an online service - 1 week later, I received a 30X40 canvas print.

 

REALLY nice, I was not aware they could do that. I thought the resolution had to be a certain size for them to be able to make them that big......I will check this out. Thanks! +1 Rep coming your way.

 

bbywu - Thanks for the direction. What type of resolution do I need though in order to get to the 30x40 canvas prints? Can you PM me or mark who that online service was? I found this one on google (www.largeformatposters.com), so not sure if anyone has used them.....

THANKS!!!! I'm really excited.

 

What sort of prices in general for these large scale re-prints? They do look nice and I love the concept of being able to take a smaller source and make it so large.

 

I get photos made into canvas often for artworks and family photo blowups

...go to www.americanarteditions.com. Upload your photo, pay and in 2 weeks.. voila

 

Another good outfit that has pretty reasonable prices is MPIX [ www.mpix.com ] They may be able to do up-sizing too, and I know that they do some awesome canvas gallery wraps.

 

this one

 

The higher the resolution of the original image the better as you know. >but< The cool thing about the technique is that you will see large halftone dots when you get up close. It adds to the overall effect.

 

I used http://www.art.com/photostoart/

Larges size they canvas is 42 X 56 inches. My 30 X 40 inch print was about $180, but I used an online coupon for a discount...

If you go to the link, click on canvas for some options. The photo I used was converted from Canon's RAW converted to a JPG file. They accept resolution file sizes up to 20MB - so I used the highest density photo I could. Sorry, don't remember exactly what resolution.

Hope that helps.

bob