We chose these methods of displaying our wares to find a balance between showing our work at its best and keeping
the access time reasonable for our website visitors.
Taking a look at the pictures on this page will give you an idea of just how good our work is.
These examples are from high quality (Nikon equipment) digital scans of 35mm negatives at 4,000 pixels per inch. They have not been enhanced or sharpened in any way.
We start with the full photograph of the Falkirk Wheel as shown on the site.
This has been scanned at 4,000dpi and then reduced to 400 pixels wide, just to give you an idea of the content of the whole image we're working with.
Next we go in a bit closer so you can get some idea of the detail.
This is an 80 by 80 pixel section and should be about an inch across and high on a 1280 by 1024 pixel monitor displaying 72 dots per inch.
This is a 72 by 72 pixel section and should in turn be about an inch across and high if you have a 1024 by 768 pixel wide monitor also displaying 72 dots per inch.
Here's a 600 by 400 pixel section cropped out of the full image.
This is being shown here about 4 times larger than it would be on an 18 inch wide print - effectively this is the equivalent of a six feet (1.9 metres) wide final image.
Normal viewing distance for a print of that size is around 8 to 10 feet (3 metres), so get up, step back across the room and look at it from way over there. Don't forget to come back and read the rest of the page...
And remember, this is the raw image with no artificial sharpening or adjustment. In printed form, especially on a gloss paper, the quality is simply stunning.
This whole image started out at 5,800 pixels wide and so would print at 300 dpi (the standard resolution for quality publications) to a width of over 18 inches. To put it another way, 30% larger than a full double-page centre spread in a standard A4 magazine.
At the same printing resolution a so-called "professional standard" 12 megapixel digital camera image would print to about A4 at 300dpi, always assuming there was no cropping round the edges. Roughly one third of the size. Not too impressive, is it?
In other company's aerial photographs you can count the roofs.
In ours, you can count the tiles.
If this is the standard of photography you are seeking, then please don't forget that 197 aerial photography take
photos of this quality as a matter of daily routine. All the images shown on this website can reproduce
this much detail. Sometimes much more.
Please also remember that while the photos on this website look OK on the screen, the original images are much sharper
and much brighter, especially in the larger sizes or higher resolution outputs which many of our customers demand as a matter of course.
If you don't see the picture you want, email or fax us - we may have it in stock
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