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We Are So Small in the Eye of God.

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The name of this post comes from a photo I described in my prior post on Fuji G617 panoramas . I was really pleased how it came out and the way it conveyed the mood of the day. In some ways it could be seen as bleak but it also evokes a kind of uplift in spirit. For me it is a complicated image. So much so I wanted to see how to print it. In the previous post I toyed with the idea of a triptych. Further thought and modeling of the print led me to a quadriptych (quad of course means 4 and typch is Greek for fold). The problem with 3 is the gaps between images correspond directly to the position of the sun and the farm which are the two most important visual elements. Dividing by 4 allows these to exist in whole on adjacent panels. Printing and Scale My next thoughts were on scale. I wanted something big to bring out the detail and I hope drama. Thinking through the dimensions of the image I came up with this. The image on the negative is about 165mm long by 55mm high. I h...